Note: This content is now available as an official document Azure is a big cloud with lots of services, and for even the most experienced user it can be intimidating to know which service will best meet your needs. This blog post is intended to provide a short overview of the most common concepts and services .NET developers need get started and p...

Today we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. Our 15.7 update brings some exciting updates for publishing applications from Visual Studio that we’re excited to tell you about, including: Configure settings before publishing When publishing your ASP.NET Core applications to either a folder or Azure App Service you can configure the f...

One of the most common requirements for web applications is for users create accounts for the purpose of access control and personalization. While ASP.NET templates have always made it easy to create an application that uses a database you control to register and track user accounts, that introduces other complications over the long term. As laws a...

**Update 5-10-2017: **The first release of Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions is now available to try We’ve been humbled by the intense interest in Visual Studio tools for Azure Functions since we shipped our initial preview for Visual Studio 2015 last fall. Unfortunately, given other constraints, Visual Studio 2017 did not include Azure...

Posting on behalf of Ahmed Metwally Visual Studio Team Services enables developers to create build and release definitions for continuous build integration and deployment of their projects. With a continuous integration and deployment configured, unit tests automatically, assuming the build succeeds and the tests pass, the changes are automaticall...