Microsoft has two new product launches related to its developer tools. First, it has launched a new offering called R Tools for Visual Studio. According to the company, the open source plug-in brings one of the most popular statistical and data analysis programming languages to the Visual Studio IDE. For now, the tool is just a preview release.
Second, the company has updated its Visual Studio Tool for Apache Cordova. The mobile development tool is getting better error reporting, improved templates and more.