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Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update

February 13, 2019 Feb 13, 2019 02/13/19
Jayme Singleton
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 ...

Announcing F# 4.6 Preview

January 24, 2019 Jan 24, 2019 01/24/19
Phillip Carter
F# 4.6 is now fully released. See the announcement blog post for more. We're excited to announce that Visual Studio 2019 will ship a new version of F# when it releases: F# 4.6! F# 4.6 is a smaller update to the F# language, making it a "true" point-release. As with previous versions of F#, F# 4.6 was developed entirely via an open RFC (...

When should you right click publish

November 9, 2018 Nov 9, 2018 11/9/18
Angelos Petropoulos
Some people say ‘friends don’t let friends right click publish’ but is that true? If they mean that there are great benefits to setting up a CI/CD workflow, that’s true and we will talk more about these benefits in just a minute. First, let’s remind ourselves that the goal isn’t always coming up with the best long-term solution. ...

ASP.NET Core in Visual Studio for Mac – Help us build the best experience

September 17, 2018 Sep 17, 2018 09/17/18
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
We are working to improve the experience for ASP.NET Core developers in Visual Studio for Mac. If you are working on ASP.NET Core apps in Visual Studio for Mac, we would love to hear you feedback. Your feedback is important so that we can help shape the future of ASP.NET Core in Visual Studio for Mac. At the end of the survey, you can leave ...

Library Manager Released in 15.8

August 31, 2018 Aug 31, 2018 08/31/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
Microsoft Library Manager (LibMan) is now available in the general release of Visual Studio 2017 as of v15.8. LibMan first previewed earlier this year, and now, after a much-anticipated wait, LibMan is available in the stable release of Visual Studio 2017 bundled as a default component in the ASP.NET and web development workload. In the ...

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 F# 4.5

August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18
Phillip Carter
Today, we’re incredibly pleased to announce general availability of F# 4.5. This post will walk through the changes in F# 4.5 (just like the preview post), then show some updates to F# tooling, and finally talk a bit about where what we’re thinking about for the next F# version. Get started F# 4.5 can be acquired in two ways...