In this episode Jeremy Thake speaks to Abhishek Kumar and Suresh Jayabalan from the Visual Studio team responsible for Apache Cordova development in Visual Studio.

• New Open XML PowerTool Cmdlet simplifies retrieval of document metrics

• Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova

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Suresh has been at Microsoft for almost nine years, working on developer technologies the whole time. He spent most of his time on Microsoft’s JavaScript engine “Chakra” that powers Internet Explorer 9 and later versions. He is currently focusing on mobile app development technologies and Apache Cordova.

Abhishek is a senior software engineer on the Visual Studio team. He is a member of Experience & Insight team for Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, where his primary focus is evaluating developer experience for connected apps using Office 365 and Azure services and build Visual Studio Cordova community. You can catch him on StackOverflow, where he is active member on visual-studio-cordova or multi-device-hybrid-apps. He has been with Visual Studio team for more than eight years.

Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc., a large ISV, as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft.

You can find Jeremy blogging at www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.