General use JavaScript libraries and frameworks have been revolutionizing web development for a decade now. Since the release of jQuery in 2006, JavaScript libraries have been quickly replacing traditional use of JavaScript. Today, more than 65% highest traffic sites on the web use jQuery. Since then, a number of other frameworks and libraries have been introduced. In this post I am going to concentrate on two such libraries, AngularJS and KnockoutJS, and provide some general comparisons from the perspective of a .NET developer who is fairly new to each.

Web accessibility is an important criteria for any website or web app, and is one that should be considered by all people involved: designs, developers, site owners, site contributors, site testers, and end users. The United Nations estimates that one in ten of the world’s people lives with a disability, and that number is expected to grow as the world’s population continues to grow older and live longer.

Let’s take a look at a simple example of using the Visual Studio Online REST API to retrieve information about a build using PowerShell. Then we’ll take a look at how we can use the information we retrieved in a vNext build step.