The official dev blog for VS Tools for Apache Cordova - Articles: Recent Episodes
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As part of improving our test automation, we decided it would be useful to enable Visual Studio to build Cordova projects without access to the internet. We’ve decided to share the fruits of that effort in the hopes it might be useful to others. The following is a guide on how to create an environment that allows limited offline development of Cordova projects in Visual Studio.
We recently had a customer reach out to us to help him fix a problem deploying to a local iOS device. Here’s a snippet from his build error:
The ASP.NET team recently released Microsoft ASP.NET Web Tools Preview 1 RC2 which include tooling changes of interest to developers working with Cordova or ASP.NET. Specifically, they’ve updated the version of Node and NPM used by Visual Studio 2015 for NPM package restore and the Task Runner Explorer.
Do you use Visual Studio TACO to build iOS applications? If so, I’d like to talk with you to learn more about what your experience has been like! Please, email me: jomatthi -at- microsoft -dot- com, or message me on Twitter and I’ll follow you back to chat (just make it clear why you’re messaging me).
We’ve recently received multiple reports of Ripple showing a blank screen when debugging an Ionic 2 application. We’ve published a new version of Ripple to get around that bug. If you’re using our tools for the first time you’ll get the new version automatically. Otherwise, here are two ways to get the update:
We recently discovered that packaging for the Windows 10 store is not generating an .appxupload file. We’re still investigating the issue and we will have a fix shortly, but for now please follow this workaround:
Based on your feedback, we decided to revert the change to the New Project Dialog in Update 9. If you’ve already downloaded Update 9, you can simply install the newer version by clicking this link:
The Cordova Plugin Registry, or CPR, is now offline. This means projects targetting CLI versions before 5.0 will no longer be able to add core plugins through the config designer.
Fresh on the heels of Update 6, today I’m happy to announce the release of update 7 (version 60219.1). Here is the download URL:
We’ve published a new version of Ripple to get around the bug in Chrome that we reported earlier in the week. If you’re using our tools for the first time you’ll get the new version automatically. Otherwise, here are two ways to get the update:
We’ve had reports of Ripple crashing with an “Aw snap” message in the latest version of Chrome (v48.0.2564.103 m). The main way people are running into the issue is by setting window.location in their app, but but you can also run into this by simply adding the cordova-plugin-media plugin. We took a deep dive and found what appears to be a bug in Chromium, so we filed an issue to track the problem.
Today I’m happy to announce the release of Update 6 (version 60128.14) for the Tools for Apache Cordova in Visual Studio. Here is the URL for the download:
When developing an app using Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova today, you have several options for emulating and deploying your app on iOS. In the case of deploying to a physical iOS device, you previously had to connect the iOS device to the remote agent. We’ve heard from a number of you that the Mac machine hosting the remote agent might not necessarily be in the same room as your development machine, thus making it hard to interact with the iOS device and debug the app. We’re happy to announce now you have the ability to locally deploy an iOS app!
As you may know, our team hosts regular Live Q&A sessions via our website. In these sessions we answer questions from you, our friendly Cordova developers, and generally discuss topics that may be of interest to you. We just published this week’s episode and here’s a summary of what we talked about:
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 5 adds the ability to easily build from command-line using msbuild. Building from command-line is useful for automating builds, creating a CI build, or for those who prefer CLI commands over an IDE.
Hello everybody, and welcome to our new developer blog! Today, I’m excited to announce the availability of Update 5 for the Tools for Apache Cordova. If you already have the tools installed then you can upgrade by clicking this link: