In short, we’re making Xamarin’s cross-platform tools available in Visual Studio, from Community up through Enterprise at no additional cost and we’re open-sourcing the Xamarin SDK – the core of the Xamarin toolchain. In addition, we’re making Xamarin’s services (for example, Test Cloud and Xamarin University) available along with the existing Microsoft mobile DevOps capabilities.

https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=xamarin-for-all 

Develop and deploy databases in Visual Studio with migration scripts.

Want to work on databases in Visual Studio alongside your application? Feeling the pain of managing and deploying database changes manually? Then ReadyRoll's the tool for you.

It generates numerically ordered SQL migration scripts that sit inside your project and take your schema from one version to the next.

You can add them to version control, use them to build and release, and automate database and application deployments, all in one process.

In this episode, Robert is joined by Mads Kristensen, who shows us the Web Extension Pack. This extension installs a number of extensions that help you become a more productive Web developer. The extensions contained in the Web Extension Pack have been proven to be stable over time and useful for all Web developers. 

Understanding the Visual Studio IDE for R language
 

Introducing R Tools for Visual Studio 

Productivity Power Tools, first released in 2010, is a pack of powerful extensions to improve developer productivity including Ctrl+Click Go to Definition, Copy As HTML, and Middle Click Scroll, just to name a few.  

R is decidedly the most popular statistical/data analysis language in use today. R Tools for Visual Studio brings together the power of R and Visual Studio in a convenient and easy to use plug-in that’s free and Open Source 

Support Ending for Visual Studio 2005 

Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio 

To help you enjoy this creativity from the community, every month or two I’ll be introducing some of the new extensions that caught my eye. Here are the highlights for this month:

• UWP Tile Generator (great helper for UWP developers)
• Open Bin Folder Extension (nice and simple)
• DocPreview (Preview XML comments)
• JavaScript Snippet Pack (Code snippets for JavaScript developers)