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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
picru
**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 ...

Visual Studio Tools for Azure Functions

November 1, 2016 Nov 1, 2016 11/1/16
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Update 5-10-2017: The first release of Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions is now available to try. As discussed in the Visual Studio 2017 Toolspost and these 2015 tools were preview tools that provided us great feedback and learning. However, as outlined in our roadmap post, the pivot to precompiled functions with a focus on .NET ...

Azure App Service Tools Updates in the Azure SDK for .NET 2.9

March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16
Brady Gaster
In the Azure SDK 2.9 we’ve made it significantly more convenient for developers who use Azure App Service to host their Web, Mobile, API, and background-processing WebJob apps. We’ve heard from customers who use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to create their Azure topologies that they’re rarely creating one web app or one API ...