App Center Blog

The latest news, updates and information for mobile developers using Visual Studio App Center

Visual Studio App Center: Changing the Way you Handle App Data

May 30, 2019 May 30, 2019 05/30/19
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 May 21, 2019 05/21/19
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 May 16, 2019 05/16/19
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 May 9, 2019 05/9/19
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!

Improvements to Visual Studio App Center Distribution

April 30, 2019 Apr 30, 2019 04/30/19
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.

Faster Android Tests and NUnit 3

April 23, 2019 Apr 23, 2019 04/23/19
Villars Gimm
Xamarin.UITest is a popular C# testing framework which works great with both native and cross-platform apps, using frameworks like Xamarin. Today I’m happy to announce two updates we have made to the UITest framework, in the form of a performance boost for cloud tests and adding NUnit 3 support both locally and in the cloud. 

Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update

February 15, 2019 Feb 15, 2019 02/15/19
App Center Team
In the coming days, we’ll be moving our developer blogs to a new platform with a modern, clean design and powerful features that will make it easy for you to discover and share great content. This week, you’ll see the Visual Studio, IoTDev, and Premier Developer blogs move to a new URL – while additional developer blogs will transition ...

Growing the Visual Studio App Center Service Portfolio

February 12, 2019 Feb 12, 2019 02/12/19
John Wargo [MSFT]
There’s a lot you can do in your apps using App Center, but we also know our customers use other services in their apps as well. Successful apps typically identify users using a third-party identity service or the less popular username and password approach. These apps usually manage some sort of application data, whether it’s the user’s data shared across multiple devices or data shared across multiple users, groups, or even whole companies or divisions. Data in this context means structured or unstructured data as well as binary data such as files.