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JSON Web Token and React Native Support Arrives to Visual Studio App Center Auth
Jun 26, 2019
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JSON Web Token and React Native Support Arrives to Visual Studio App Center Auth

Amanda Chew
Amanda Chew

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.

Three SDK Tips To Get More From Visual Studio App Center Analytics
Jun 24, 2019
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Three SDK Tips To Get More From Visual Studio App Center Analytics

Ela Malani [MSFT]
Ela Malani [MSFT]

In this post, I’m going to share how you can best leverage and utilize client-side APIs supported in the App Center SDK to have control and flexibility on storing, prioritizing, and sending the Analytics data to App Center backend.

App Center Build Adds Cloning of Existing Build Configurations
Jun 17, 2019
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App Center Build Adds Cloning of Existing Build Configurations

Matthias Wenz
Matthias Wenz

Over the course of the last few months, we have heard your feedback that you would love to use your existing configured branches as a basis for new build configurations. We’re excited to let you know that one of several improvements coming to our Visual Studio App Center Build service is the ability to clone build configurations from existing

Visual Studio App Center: Changing the Way you Handle App Data
May 30, 2019
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Visual Studio App Center: Changing the Way you Handle App Data

Zakeel Muhammad
Zakeel Muhammad

Data. We’re aiming to solve some of the biggest problems associated with data. The App Center Data service, currently in preview, lets you manage, sync, and persist your application data in the cloud across different devices and platforms in both online and offline scenarios. Whether it’s global data that every user can see or private account

Moving from Node.js to .NET Core
May 21, 2019
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Moving from Node.js to .NET Core

Jim Wang
Jim Wang

Here on Visual Studio App Center, our platform is built as a set of microservices, which has afforded teams to make language and platform choices that work best for them, and ultimately allowed us to move and iterate quickly

Introducing Push to User for Visual Studio App Center
May 16, 2019
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Introducing Push to User for Visual Studio App Center

John Wargo [MSFT]
John Wargo [MSFT]

We made some recent changes to Visual Studio App Center that enable our customers to associate app users with their data in App Center. App Center customers can use this user association to send push notifications to specific users through App Center Push. In this article, I’ll explain how it all works.

Introducing Visual Studio App Center Auth
May 9, 2019
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Introducing Visual Studio App Center Auth

Amanda Chew
Amanda Chew

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!

Visual Studio App Center Preview: Welcoming Auth and Data to the Portfolio
May 6, 2019
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Visual Studio App Center Preview: Welcoming Auth and Data to the Portfolio

James White [MSFT]
James White [MSFT]

App Center Data and Auth are available as an early preview, we will share more details in the next couple of weeks about what is available and what to expect in the future. In the meantime, we invite you to log into App Center, check out what is available today, and share your feedback.

Improvements to Visual Studio App Center Distribution
Apr 30, 2019
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Improvements to Visual Studio App Center Distribution

Bo-ying Fu [MSFT]
Bo-ying Fu [MSFT]

Earlier this year we started an effort for widespread customer outreach to understand our users and guide product prioritization. The effort helped us gain a lot of insight and helped our prioritization last quarter. However, as we continue to grow, we unfortunately don’t have the capacity to reach out to as many customers as we would like.