Microsoft announced its Visual Studio Mobile Center -- a back-end 'mission control for mobile apps' -- now supports CodePush updates of JavaScript-based apps.

For example, Visual Studio 2017 now starts up three times faster, project load times are four times faster, and build speeds on C++ projects are also noticeably quicker, Montgomery wrote.

Learn how Mobile Center helps you easily develop, build, test, distribute, and monitor your mobile apps.

For one recent example, new updates to its Visual Studio Mobile Center -- providing back-end services such as data storage, analytics and so on for mobile apps -- include support of code signing for ...

eWeek Labs' first look at code reveals that the biggest feature change in Microsoft Corp.'s Visual Studio .Net Beta 2 release is its support for graphical mobile application development.

Microsoft also launched Visual Studio Mobile Center, a portal for developers to access a suite of services all aimed at making it easier to create mobile apps. The moves are part of Microsoft’s ...

From Live Share to Smarter IntelliCode to fewer crashes when debugging large C++ apps, Visual Studio’s new features are bound to boost productivity.

The company also announced changes to Visual Studio Mobile Center, including the ability to test Universal Windows Platform apps on Surface devices hosted in the Test Cloud.

Developers using Microsoft's Visual Studio Mobile Center back-end service hub can now directly update JavaScript-based apps via the CodePush service.