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Automating Release Notes with Azure Functions

October 16, 2018 Oct 16, 2018 10/16/18
Jasmine Greenaway
We can all agree that tracking the progress of a project enhances productivity and is an effective way to keep everyone involved of its progress. When it comes to managing your project in Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) or GitHub, you have all of your artifacts in one place: code, CI/CD pipelines, releases, work items, and more. In cases where ...

Use Hybrid Connections to Incrementally Migrate Applications to the Cloud

October 4, 2018 Oct 4, 2018 10/4/18
Web Development Tools Microsoft
As the software industry shifts to running software in the cloud, organizations are looking to migrate existing applications from on-premises to the cloud. Last week at Microsoft’s Ignite conference, Paul Yuknewicz and I delivered a talk focused on how to get started migrating applications to Azure (watch the talk free) where we walked ...

How to get started with Azure and .NET

September 4, 2018 Sep 4, 2018 09/4/18
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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 ...

Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 for web and Azure developers

August 15, 2018 Aug 15, 2018 08/15/18
Jeffrey Fritz
With the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 brings improvements for web developers such as custom docker image tags during publish, zip push deployment for Azure functions, managing Azure functions application settings, and enabling Application Insights as part of publishing to Azure App Service. Also learn about managing user secrets in ASP.NET framework projects, optimizing build performance for solutions containing ASP.NET frame as well as author and source information for ASP.NET Core templates.

Announcing ASP.NET Providers Connected Service Visual Studio Extension

May 22, 2018 May 22, 2018 05/22/18
Matt FJH
Provider pattern was introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 and it gives the developers the flexibility of where to store the state of ASP.NET features (e.g. Session State, Membership, Output Cache etc.). In ASP.NET 4.6.2, we added async support for Session State Provider and Output Cache Provider.  These providers provide much better scalability, and ...

A Penny Saved is a Ton of Serverless Compute Earned

May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018 05/21/18
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Scott Guthrie recently shared one of my favorite anecdotes on his Azure Red Shirt Tour. A Microsoft customer regularly invokes 1 billion (yes, that’s with a “B”) Azure Functions per day. The customer reached out to support after the first month thinking there was a bug in the billing system, only to find out that the $72 was in fact ...

Cosmos DB Solves Common Data Challenges in App Development

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18
Jasmine Greenaway [MSFT]
When considering how to implement your application with a relational database, it can change how you build it dramatically. Some of these challenges include adding an abstract implementation of the schema in the code, mapping data to objects, building queries, and preventing SQL injection attacks. Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Using ASP.NET Core Previews on Azure App Service

February 27, 2018 Feb 27, 2018 02/27/18
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
There are 3 options to get ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview applications running on Azure App Service: 1. Installing the Preview1 site extension 2. Deploying your app self-contained 3. Using Web Apps for Containers Installing the site extension Starting with 2.1-preview1 we are producing an Azure App Service site extension that contains ...

Two Lesser Known Tools for Local Azure Development

February 8, 2018 Feb 8, 2018 02/8/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
If you’re developing applications that target Azure services (e.g. Web Apps, Functions, Storage), you’ll want to know about two powerful tools that come with Visual Studio 2017 and the Azure development workload: * Cloud Explorer is a tool window inside Visual Studio that lets you browse your Azure resources and perform specific tasks – ...