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

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.