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More Gold! BlackBerry Native Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio

ANNOUNCEMENTS / 03.03.15 / lgazzola

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We’re happy to announce the release of the BlackBerry Native Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio (version 3.0 Gold).

There are many benefits to open-source code and one of them is contributions from the community.  We’re very happy that Paweł Hofman has made many improvements which are  included in this latest release.  We’ll have a feature blog on Paweł later this week.

In this latest release of the BlackBerry Native Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio (version 3.0 Gold) there are many updates which improve usability.  The plug-in is only compatible with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 as Microsoft Visual Studio 2012/2010 are no longer supported.   The following highlights the updates to the Plug-in:

  • Rewrote the GDB parser from C++ into C#
  • Updated the UI to facilitate:
    • Managing targets
    • Managing API Levels
    • Registering code signing keys
    • Requesting debug tokens
  • Added new UI features for managing:
    • Logging
    • General settings
  • Added a new menu structure on the BlackBerry tab
  • Integrated the BlackBerry menu into Microsoft Visual Studio Options dialog box
  • Added a new project template for creating BlackBerry project types
  • Increased stability and efficiency.
  • Updated the MSBuild process
  • Added a Target Navigator to show command-line and environment variables for processes
  • Fixed numerous bugs

Learn more about all these features and download the BlackBerry Native Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio from our website.

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