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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 – ...

Diagnosing Errors on your Cloud Apps

February 7, 2018 Feb 7, 2018 02/7/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
One of the most frustrating experiences is when you have your app working on your local machine, but when you publish it it’s inexplicably failing. Fortunately, Visual Studio provides handy features for working with apps running in Azure. In this blog I’ll show you how to leverage the capabilities of Cloud Explorer to diagnose issues in ...

64 bit ASP.NET Core on Azure App Service

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
When creating an Azure App Service .NET Core is already pre-installed. However, only the 32 bit .NET runtime is installed. In this post we will look at a  few ways that you can get a 64 bit runtime on Azure App Service During the 2.1 timeframe we are hoping to have both 32 and 64 bit runtimes installed as well as enabling the portal ...

Take a Break with Azure Functions

December 21, 2017 Dec 21, 2017 12/21/17
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
So, it's the Holidays. The office is empty, the boss is away, and you've got a bit of free time on your hands. How about learning a new skill and having some fun? Azure Functions are a serverless technology that executes code based on various triggers (i.e. a URL is called, an item is placed on a queue, a file is added to blob storage, a ...

Improve website performance by optimizing images

November 28, 2017 Nov 28, 2017 11/28/17
Mads Kristensen
We all want our web applications to load as fast as possible to give the best possible experience to the users. One of the steps to achieve that is to make sure the images we use are as optimized as possible. If we can reduce the file size of the images then we can significantly reduce the weight of the website. This is important for various ...

Publishing a Web App to an Azure VM from Visual Studio

November 1, 2017 Nov 1, 2017 11/1/17
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
We know virtual machines (VMs) are one of the most popular places to run apps in Azure, but publishing to a VM from Visual Studio has been a tricky experience for some. So, we’re pleased to announce that in Visual Studio 15.5 we’ve added some improvements to the experience. In this post, we’ll discussed the requirements for a VM that’s...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Jeffrey Fritz
The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm.  For a full list of updates, you can read the release notes and you can check the list of changed ...

Azure Functions Tools Roadmap

April 14, 2017 Apr 14, 2017 04/14/17
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**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 ...

Put a .NET Core App in a Container with the new Docker Tools for Visual Studio

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Jeffrey Fritz
By now hopefully you’ve heard the good news that we’ve added first class support for building and running .NET applications inside of Docker containers in Visual Studio 2017 RC.  Visual Studio 2017 and Docker support building and running .NET applications using Windows containers (on Windows 10/Server 2016 only), and .NET Core ...