Windows 10: Apache Cordova development lands on Visual Studio Code

Brink · Jan 27, 2016

Thousands of developers already use Visual Studio’s Tools for Apache Cordova—affectionately abbreviated as “TACO”—to build mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows using a shared JavaScript codebase. Within the IDE, TACO provides everything you need to install and configure the native SDKs, preview your app, debug on emulators and devices, and even manage continuous integration/deployment via Visual Studio Team Services.

Today, we are pleased to announce new ways to build, debug and preview Cordova apps using your favorite light-weight text editor (it is your favorite, right?): VS Code and the Cordova Tools extension.

With this extension, you can debug hybrid apps, find Cordova-specific commands in the Command Palette, and use IntelliSense to browse objects, functions, and parameters. You can use it with both “stock” versions of the Apache Cordova framework and downstream frameworks like Ionic, Onsen, PhoneGap and SAP Fiori Mobile Client. Because they all use the same Cordova build systems and core runtime, the TACO extension is adaptable to the JavaScript framework of your choice.

In fact, you can even use Visual Studio Code on a project created with the full Visual Studio IDE. For example, imagine creating a Cordova project using Ionic templates with Visual Studio on a Windows machine, then opening it on an OS X or Linux machine using Visual Studio Code—making some edits—then continuing your work in the Visual Studio IDE. No matter which editor you choose, you get the full benefit of debugging, IntelliSense, and language support. How cool is that?

Visual Studio Code + Cordova Tools currently support debugging apps on emulators, simulators, and tethered devices for Android and iOS. If you ask for it (L: email or tweet us), Windows support will follow not too far behind. You can also attach the debugger to an app that is already running on a device; the debugger simply uses the application ID to locate the running instance.

How do I get it?

If you haven’t already, download and install Visual Studio Code for Mac, Windows or Linux from http://code.visualstudio.com. It’s under 50MB and on a decent network connection you’ll have it installed in under 2 minutes. Once that’s done, install the Cordova Tools extension directly from within the code editor. Simply invoke the Command Palette (Cmd+P on Mac, Ctrl+P on Windows), type “>ext install cordova”, and hit Enter.

You guessed it…open source!

You can, of course, contribute to improving the extension further. The Cordova Tools extension is open source, so if you run into any issues or have suggestions for new features, please open an issue or better yet, make the change and send us a pull request.

And last but not the least, we have also made some improvements in our command line tools and extensions for continuous integration optimizing your inner and outer dev loops!

Send us your feedback

We invite you all to join in our journey to grow an active community of Cordova developers to build amazing apps using TACO. Tell us what you’d like to see, and whether you are interested in testing pre-release versions of TACO. You can do this by joining our insiders program, posting issues on stack overflow, or pinging me directly via e-mail at rsalva (at) microsoft.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
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David_M_967 · Jan 27, 2016

Error (80073cf1) Downloading Single App from Store on Windows Lumia Phone

Thanks for the responses above. I'm pleased to say that working with Microsoft Tech Support (paid) I was able to come to a positive resolution to the issue and gained some insight into the cause.

Affected apps seem to be those that require the WinJS library so that will be potentially affect any WinJS / Hybrid or Cordova Tools.

The issue appears to be caused by the Windows Store having removed the ability for apps to download an older version of the WinJS library if it is not present on the phone already. This explains why we were seeing a successful download but a failure to complete
installation

The solution for our App was to follow the following steps to ensure the WinJS library included in our Cordova Tools app was the correct version:

Updated Visual Studio 2015 to the latest mobile development toolset / Cordova Build tools

Created a new Javascript > Apache Cordova Apps > Blank App (Apache Cordova) project

Copied in the previous code base (www folder)

Added the necessary Cordova Plugins (at latest versions as per the Cordova build tools update)

Configured the config.xml to match the old project

Hope this is of use to any developers currently suffering with the same issue

Vincent Burger · Jan 27, 2016

Visual Studio crash on Cordova project creation

Since I have been developing with Cordova for a while now using the Netbeans IDE, and since it is starting to feel limiting, I want to move this development to Visual Studio.

So I installed the additional package for Cordova development (Mobile development with JavaScript) using the Visual Studio Installer.

Unfortunately, when I try to create a new Cordova project, Visual Studio hangs for a second and then a "This program has stopped responding" message pops up.

I have reinstalled the Mobile development with Javascript module (which didn't do the trick) and reinstalled Visual Studio completely (which also didn't help).

Does anyone know how to find the issue here?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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