We are looking for adventurous mobile app creators. Do you have a device running the latest Windows Phone 8 operating system? Are you a fan of the TouchDevelop app that enables you to create apps directly ON your mobile device? Do you love to try out...

Today, the Pex team at Microsoft Research ( Nikolai Tillmann and Peli de Halleux ) is happy to announce that Code Digger, an extension for Visual Studio 2012, has shipped to the Visual Studio Gallery. After shipping the Moles framework as Fakes in Visual...

One month ago we released the Web App Preview of TouchDevelop, the mobile programming environment. Thanks to the feedback you’ve been sending us since then, we were able to greatly expand the list of supported platforms. As of today, the TouchDevelop...

Today we are announcing the TouchDevelop Web App Preview , available at touchdevelop.com/app : a development environment for mobile and web applications that runs directly in your browser. You can quickly create fun games and useful tools. TouchDevelop’s...

The TouchDevelop team is excited to announce a new app update. The growing TouchDevelop team got help over the summer from several awesome interns. You can install the latest version from the Windows Phone Marketplace ; you might have to wait a few...

After v2.7, which was just bug fixes and updates to the license agreement, the TouchDevelop team ( Nikolai Tillmann, Michał Moskal , Peli de Halleux , Manuel Fahndrich , Sebastian Burckhardt ) is excited to finally announce shipping v2.8 today: The latest...

The TouchDevelop app is a great environment to create, share, run and discuss scripts, and if are new to programming, then you might also like that you can read other people’s code — you do everything on your Windows Phone, you do not need...

Until recently, there wasn’t much documentation available around the TouchDevelop programming environment and language. We reorganized our educational material under touchdevelop.com/learn , and the TouchDevelop team and our friends from Microsoft...

Today, the TouchDevelop team is excited to announce the release of the latest app update for Windows Phone 7. Version 2.6 brings enhanced user profiles with pictures, about-me texts, websites, and scores; a redesigned script editor with new events and...

Today, the TouchDevelop team releases the latest app update for Windows Phone 7: learn how to play random songs by shaking your phone, integrate picture and sounds from the web, and much more. We fixed several bugs you reported to us, and we also added...

We have been amazed by all the great scripts that you have published over the past months – view them on touchdevelop.com . Today, the TouchDevelop team is releasing the latest update: you can now discuss scripts (write comments, reply), and...

Today, the TouchDevelop team is excited to announce the first version of TouchDevelop that was customized for the new Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango). TouchDevelop v2.3 cannot be installed on earlier, not-yet-updated Windows Phone 7.0 devices. You can find...

The TouchDevelop team is really happy to see all the scripts that you published on the script bazaar after we added this feature with TouchDevelop v2.0 . Check out all the scripts on www.touchdevelop.com ! Remember, you can install any published scripts...

The TouchDevelop team is happy to release this incremental update to TouchDevelop. After we recently introduced script sharing in the cloud with TouchDevelop v2.0 , we now made it even easier to discover and install scripts published by other people:...

Today, the TouchDevelop team is thrilled to announce a big step forward in mobile programming: TouchDevelop v2.0 for Windows Phone 7 enables easy sharing of scripts. To reflect the big change, we are renaming the app to TouchDevelop; we secured the new...

On 5/27/2011, the TouchStudio team is excited to announce the second update of the TouchStudio app for Windows Phone 7: TouchStudio v1.2 beta. You can install the latest version directly via Zune . Follow TouchStudio on Facebook to stay up to date...

Today, the TouchStudio team is happy to announce the first update of the TouchStudio app for Windows Phone 7. You can install the latest version directly via Zune . Follow TouchStudio on Facebook to stay up to date. Accelerometer, location, maps, translation...

Today, we are excited to announce a new project from the Research in Software Engineering group at Microsoft Research: TouchStudio . TouchStudio allows you to script your phone. TouchStudio is a new programming environment built around a single core...

Today, the Pex team is thrilled to announce a great makeover for pexforfun.com , adding several new features: IntelliSense That’s right, when you hit the ‘.’ after a name in the code editor, you get code completion, in your...

Using Windows Live™ ID, you can now sign in to pexforfun.com and get a personalized experience. After signing in, the Pex for fun website will track how many Coding Duels you tried to win, eventually won, and which ones you created yourself. Pex...

When we showed an earlier version of www.pexforfun.com to our long-term collaborator Tao Xie , Associate Professor at NCSU, he wondered whether the website could be more interactive, by making the user figure out and type in an entire implementation of...

A few days ago we announced our new website, www.pexforfun.com . We had a tremendous response, and tens of thousands of visitors asking Pex to solve puzzles. Thanks to everyone for trying it out! Puzzle Sharing Made Easy We have just added a big new Permalink...

Today, the Pex team is thrilled to announce www.pexforfun.com , a web site that brings code to life. It analyzes small code snippets, and produces a table of interesting input and output values, often uncovering surprising corner cases. The code can be...

Besides working on Pex , for the last year I have been driving forward a new research project, SPUR . SPUR is a “Trace-based JIT Compiler for CIL”, and it works especially well for dynamic languages, in particular JavaScript. Now, what does “Trace-based...

After more than a year of community feedback on DevLabs, Pex and Moles have taken the next step and have become Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools. To reflect this step forward, we have increased the version number to 0.90 . Pex and Moles still come with...