Amanda Chew

A Bite-Sized Daily Digest for Crashes in Visual Studio App Center

November 26th, 2019

We’re excited to announce the launch of a daily digest for crashes in Visual Studio App Center! This bite-sized email gives you a single view of your daily activity of new crash groups.

JSON Web Token and React Native Support Arrives to Visual Studio App Center Auth

June 26th, 2019

We shipped App Center Auth in early preview on May 7, and it’s been an exciting month and a half since our launch! During this time we’ve actively engaged with our developers and rolled out a couple of product improvements based on your feedback.

Introducing Visual Studio App Center Auth

May 9th, 2019

For the past few months, the team has been working to develop a seamless identity management service to easily manage user identities at scale in Visual Studio App Center. Today, we’re really excited to launch App Center Auth in early preview!

A New Year Ahead – the HockeyApp Cutover Experience

January 16th, 2019

Starting today, you can get started with your transition from HockeyApp to App Center through the side-by-side experience. We’ll also update you with full documentation and details on completing your migration to App Center in March 2019 to enable all of our users to complete moving over all apps by November 16, 2019.

Visual Studio App Center CLI Customers – Event-Stream Package Security Update and Next Steps

January 16th, 2019

On November 26, 2018 the npm security team removed `flatmap-stream` from the popular `event-stream@3.3.6` package. In late September, `flatmap-stream` had been added as a dependency by a GitHub developer identified as “right9control” in an apparent attempt to attack the `ps-tree` package running in copay, a cryptocurrency wallet.

A New Year Ahead – the HockeyApp Cutover Experience

December 17th, 2018

    In 2017, we announced that HockeyApp features and functionality would move to Visual Studio App Center, a single solution for continuously build ing, testing, releasing, and monitoring your apps and recently shared that HockeyApp will fully transition to App Center on November 16, 2019. In order to deliver a seamless experience...

Visual Studio App Center CLI Customers – Event-Stream Package Security Update and Next Steps

December 7th, 2018

On Nov 26, 2018, the npm security team removed `flatmap-stream` from the popular `event-stream@3.3.6` package. In late September, `flatmap-stream` had been added as a dependency by a GitHub developer identified as “right9control” in an apparent attempt to attack the `ps-tree` package running in copay, a cryptocurrency wallet. You can read ...

Webhooks and Email Notifications in Visual Studio App Center Build

May 22nd, 2018

We’re excited to announce the launch of build status notifications for Visual Studio App Center! Based on your feedback, we know some of you are customizing your build definitions to notify your team about the build status. Now you can say goodbye to these custom steps and simply use the email and webhook notifications feature in App Center ...

Introducing the App Center Slack App

October 24th, 2017

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   I’m Amanda, and I’m passionate about optimization, making processes more efficient, and building apps that improve the world. I'm always looking for ways to save time, whether it’s in personal projects or in my work as a App Center Program Manager, where...