Showing archive results for February 2017

Twenty-five years ago, I started my first day at Microsoft as a developer on the Access team, and then as a developer on a newly created product – Visual InterDev. I remember how the emphasis was on the Visual part of our various product offerings, we have come a long way to the Visual Studio we have now. Today, I’m proud and humbled that Visual St...

Readers of this blog interested in Real-Time Communications are probably familiar with Google’s WebRTC project. From the WebRTC site:

In last week’s episode, we’re speaking with Beth Massi to celebrate .NET’s 15th anniversary. This week, Eric Mellino will be on the show to demo CrazyCore, a game engine written on .NET Core. We’ll stream live on Channel 9. We’ll take questions on Gitter’s dotnet/home channel and on Twitter. Please use the #onnet tag. It’s OK to start sending us qu...

Working with pull requests that are assigned to teams is getting a lot easier. When a PR is created or updated, email alerts will now be sent to all members of all teams that are assigned to the PR.

James Montemagno shows how Xamarin developers can fully automate their Android and iOS release pipelines, including builds, tests, and beta distribution. He also discusses how to integrate the Mobile Center SDK into your apps to track how they—and your users—behave in the wild. Simina Pasat and Joshua Weber show you how Mobile Center simplifies you...

These days, many developers are building Single-Page Applications (SPAs) using frameworks such as Angular or React. These are powerful frameworks that produce a great end-user experience, but we often hear that building these applications is complicated. It can be a challenge to integrate server-side and

We just finished our inaugural “Xamarin University Presents” webinar series, and we can’t wait to do it again! Thousands of developers joined us for five demo-packed sessions, getting best practices and step-by-step guidance from Xamarin University’s team of mobile experts. Starting Thursday, March 2,

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is an easy way to help your team manage code and stay connected when developing. VSTS supports continuous integration using a shared code repository that everyone on the team uses to check in code changes. Every time any code is checked in,

This update contains a few new features and a lot of bug fixes.  To my knowledge, we have fixed all the bugs that were reported from RC1.  There are a small handful of bugs left to be fixed and we will be ready to ship the final version of Update 1.  We recently announced that VS 2017 and TFS 2017.1 will be released on March 7th.

The Test Platform is where it is at thanks to its community – a community of adapter writers, test framework writers, extension writers, and application developers, working on platforms ranging from .NET to C++ to JavaScript. The Test Platform has grown to serve a diverse and complex range of lifecycle-requirements and is now at a point where it is...