Microsoft announced that it has replaced the default scripting engine JScript with the newer and more secure JScript9Legacy ...

Microsoft's tutorials also assist participants setting up a development environment with Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code editor, as well as installing Node.js as a JavaScript runtime.

Microsoft has made TypeScript 1.8 available and is hoping to entice developers to migrate their JavaScript projects. In version 1.8, .js JavaScript files now can output to .tsc, accessing the ...

Microsoft is opening up Excel to developers with a new JavaScript API. It will let developers use custom data types like images, cards, and arrays.

Microsoft first released this library in 2011 so developers could build Windows applications both for Windows Phone and the Windows 8 Modern interfaces using JavaScript, along with HTML, CSS and ...

In particular, observers say they hope Microsoft will turn JavaScript execution off by default, so Excel only allows the custom functions to run after specifically prompting a user to approve—or ...

The rival vendors are partnering to build AngularJS 2.0 on Microsoft's TypeScript language ...

Strong backing for JavaScript means Google's alternative programming language won't have an easy time finding a foothold on the Web. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create ...

Microsoft released another tool in the augmented reality developer's kit with HoloJS, to create UWP apps supporting HoloLens using JavaScript and WebGL.