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Visual Studio Updates for Office 365 APIs Tools

December 14, 2017 Dec 14, 2017 12/14/17
ScriptingGuy1
As we recently detailed on the Office Developer blog, we are making it simpler and easier for developers to connect to Office 365 through the Microsoft Graph. For Visual Studio developers currently using the Office 365 API Tools to create applications, you should plan to transition your apps to use Microsoft Graph to access Office 365 data ...

Connect(); 2017: SmartHotel360 Demo Apps and Architecture

December 13, 2017 Dec 13, 2017 12/13/17
ScriptingGuy1
Last month we hosted Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Connect(); is a three-day, in-person and online developer event. If you missed it, no worries! You can watch our keynotes, sessions, and on-demand videos on Channel 9. For the past five months our keynote demo team worked on a new set of reference apps. We used most of these apps and...

Easily Create IoT Edge custom modules with Visual Studio Code

December 12, 2017 Dec 12, 2017 12/12/17
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At the recent Connect(); 2017 in November, we announced public preview of Azure IoT Edge. Now you can bring the intelligence of the Cloud right to the IoT Edge as well as easily create and manage business logic for your devices. The new Azure IoT Edge extension for Visual Studio Code along with the updated Azure IoT Toolkit extension will make...

Share UI Code in any iOS and Android App with .NET Embedding

December 11, 2017 Dec 11, 2017 12/11/17
ScriptingGuy1
One of the most exciting announcements during this year’s Connect(); event was the ability to embed .NET libraries into existing iOS (Objective-C/Swift) and Android (Java) applications with .NET Embedding. This is great because you can start to share code between your iOS and Android applications, and you can also share the user interface ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview

December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17
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[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!] A few days ago we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and an update to Visual Studio for Mac, and today we are releasing the...