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Mobilizing Existing .NET Apps

Nish AnilApril 16, 2018Apr 16, 201804/16/18

Almost any .NET codebase, including Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, and Silverlight, has sharable code that can be ported to Mobile projects. In this blog post, You’ll learn how to port business logic from WPF and build a phone- and tablet-friendly mobile app for Android, iOS, and UWP. 

Connect(); 2017: SmartHotel360 Demo Apps and Architecture

Visual Studio BlogDecember 13, 2017Dec 13, 201712/13/17

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 a

Sky’s the limit with Azure, ASP.NET Core, and Visual Studio for Mac

Visual Studio BlogDecember 11, 2017Dec 11, 201712/11/17

[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!] Cloud services represent a huge leap in functionality, performance, and management simplicity for web apps, APIs, mobile backen

Post-Connect(); 2017 Visual Studio Partner Webinar Series

Visual Studio BlogDecember 7, 2017Dec 7, 201712/7/17

[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!] Earlier this week, we released 13 Visual Studio partner webinars that build off of some of the major announcement areas of Conn

Managing Secrets Securely in the Cloud

Visual Studio BlogNovember 17, 2017Nov 17, 201711/17/17

You’ve probably heard some version of the story about a developer who mistakenly checked in his AWS S3 key to Github. He pulled the key within 5 minutes but still racked up a multi-thousand dollar bill from bots that crawl open source sites looking for secrets. As developers we all understand and care about keeping dev and production secrets

Spend more time working on the interesting stuff

Visual Studio BlogNovember 16, 2017Nov 16, 201711/16/17

There’s a reason that each day thousands of developers take advantage of the rich set of extensions offered by our growing family of VS and VSTS Partners and the broader VS community. Collectively these offerings can save you and your team time in many different ways, from helping find bugs faster, to making it easier to work with data, to h

Keep Your Skills Up to Date: New Training and Azure Resources

Shawn NandiNovember 15, 2017Nov 15, 201711/15/17

Finding better ways to upskill is a consistent topic that comes up when we talk to you about what’s top of mind. It’s no wonder when the one constant in our industry is change with new techniques, frameworks, tools, and languages emerging all the time. Developers by nature are extremely self-reliant when it comes to dealing with this ch

7 Hidden Gems in Visual Studio 2017

Anson HortonOctober 5, 2017Oct 5, 201710/5/17

I’ve been working on developer tooling for over 16 years, and I still love it when I find a new tip or trick that shaves seconds off a repetitive task. The set below are features that I see infrequently used but can save loads of time! Gem #1 - Expression Evaluator Format Specifiers The part of the debugger that processes the language bein

Take your web app to Azure

Visual Studio BlogJune 14, 2017Jun 14, 201706/14/17

You’ve built your web app. It’s running, and getting good traffic. Now you need to move on to solving the ‘good problems’ to have. You want to scale your app to support more users, but only at peak times. Or you need better hardware and simply don’t want to manage that hardware… or software, or even the network. What if you just wa

Committing with Confidence: Getting Code Quality Information at Commit Time

Visual Studio BlogMay 22, 2017May 22, 201705/22/17

Many developers tell us that they are under pressure to deliver software on an ever-faster cadence. This pressure for increased speed makes building your software at high quality from the start even more important – you want to make sure that any commits you make to your codebase are at the right quality, to avoid costly remediation of error

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