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Dec 29, 2017
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New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 5

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App Center Team

This week we released Visual Studio 2017 Update 5. In this release, we added new Git features which were based on your UserVoice requests to support Git submodules, Git worktrees, fetch --prune, and pull --rebase. To learn more about all of our Git features and what’s new in Visual Studio 2017 Update 5, check out our Git tutorials and the Visual St...

Dec 29, 2017
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Connect(); 2017: SmartHotel360 Demo Apps and Architecture

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App Center Team

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 Azur...

Dec 29, 2017
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Visual Studio Updates for Office 365 APIs Tools

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App Center Team

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 directly...

Dec 29, 2017
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How to use multiple enlistments (C++ team blog)

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App Center Team

Vcpkg allows you to acquire and build 3rd party libraries on Windows. Once cloned, the vcpkg directory (enlistment) provides a stable set of libraries that are all compatible and based on the latest published version of these libraries. Occasionally, you may need different versions of the same library. By design, you can’t have two different versio...

Dec 20, 2017
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Visual Studio Build Tools now include the VS2017 and VS2015 MSVC Toolsets (C++ Team Blog)

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App Center Team

The Visual C++ Build tools have been a huge success since we introduced them two years ago. The C++ Build Tools were originally released as a standalone installer that only laid down the tools required to build C++ projects without installing the Visual Studio IDE. Many developers have found them useful in environments that don’t require a full VS ...

Dec 20, 2017
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Sky’s the limit with Azure, ASP.NET Core, and Visual Studio for Mac

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App Center Team

Cloud services represent a huge leap in functionality, performance, and management simplicity for web apps, APIs, mobile backends, and more. To help you get started with cloud-based development in Visual Studio for Mac, today we’re publishing two new hands-on labs: publishing your ASP.NET Core web app to Azure, and connecting your ASP.NET Core web ...

Dec 20, 2017
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Free eBook – The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure now available

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App Center Team

Today, we are pleased to introduce a free eBook titled, The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure second edition. The book was written by Michael Crump and Barry Luijbregts to help you on your journey to the cloud, whether you’re just considering making the move, or you’ve already decided and are underway. This eBook was written by developers for de...

Dec 20, 2017
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Native Forms is Polished and Shiny in Xamarin.Forms 2.5.0

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App Center Team

Since we previewed Native Forms in June, we’ve been working to smooth the rough edges and polish it up for Xamarin.Forms 2.5.0 by fixing bugs and integrating the excellent feedback from the community. Last month at Microsoft Connect(); in New York, several Native Forms examples were used in the keynote presentation. Most notably, James Montemagno ...

Dec 20, 2017
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Two-phase name lookup support comes to MSVC (C++ team blog)

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App Center Team

“Two-phase name lookup” is an informal term that refers to a set of rules governing the resolution of names used in a template declaration. These rules were formalized more than two decades ago in an attempt to reconcile two opposing compilation models for templates: the inclusion model (what most developers know of templates today), and the separa...

Dec 15, 2017
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What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS): December 2017 Digest

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App Center Team

The Connect(); conference highlights developer tools like Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and the rest of the Visual Studio family of products. It’s an event full of news and training about software development and DevOps, and if you missed the live stream, the DevOps and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) sessions are all available to watch on-...