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.

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ECMAScript ...

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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.

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 ...

And there are more improvements on the way--from Microsoft, from Mozilla, and yes, from Google itself, which continues to improve its JavaScript technology even as it preaches the gospel of Dart.

If Microsoft made JavaScript a foundational scripting language for the entire Windows platform, it would be a valuable tool for users and developers alike (and developers wouldn’t have to feel ...

Windows, for years now, has been able to run Microsoft’s version of JavaScript, called JScript. The fish bowl that JScript was designed to live inside was not a web page, but Windows itself.

Microsoft wants to help web application framework developers tackle one of their thorniest problems, that of testing their libraries to ensure they work correctly across today’s dizzying ...

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 ...

This is not to say that the IE9 JavaScript engine is a slouch. Microsoft is revamping its JavaScript engine for the IE 9 release, making a number of changes that should speed performance.