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Announcing Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio 2017

February 16, 2017 Feb 16, 2017 02/16/17

Vahe Minasyan

With the right DevOps tools, developers can run continuous integration builds that automate testing, analysis and verification of their projects, and streamline continuous deployment to get innovative applications into user’s hands quickly. Along with the release of Visual Studio 2017 RC.3 update, we released...

The week in .NET – On .NET with Phil Haack, Readline

February 16, 2017 Feb 16, 2017 02/16/17

Vahe Minasyan

This week, we’ll take a look back on the past 15 years of .NET with Beth Massi. 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 questions in advance if you can’t do it live during the shows. Readline is one of those ...

Happy 15th Birthday .NET!

February 16, 2017 Feb 16, 2017 02/16/17

Vahe Minasyan

Today marks the 15th anniversary since .NET debuted to the world. On February 13th, 2002, the first version of .NET was released as part of Visual Studio.NET. It seems just like yesterday when Microsoft was building its “Next Generation Windows Services” and unleashed a new level of productivity with Visual Studio.NET...

New Lower Prices on Azure Virtual Machines and Blob Storage

February 10, 2017 Feb 10, 2017 02/10/17

Vahe Minasyan

We strive hard at Azure to offer you the best value in one of the most cost effective ways in the public cloud. We believe in providing a comprehensive cloud platform that not only enables customers to innovate rapidly, but to also do so at the best possible prices. To that end, today we are happy to announce significant price reductions on ...

ASP.NET Documentation Now on docs.microsoft.com

February 10, 2017 Feb 10, 2017 02/10/17

Vahe Minasyan

We are happy to announce ASP.NET documentation and guidance has been migrated to docs.microsoft.com...

Universal Windows Platform (UWP) docs are now on Docs.Microsoft.com

February 10, 2017 Feb 10, 2017 02/10/17

Vahe Minasyan

I’m excited to announce the release of Universal Windows Platform (UWP) documentation on Docs.Microsoft.com. Docs.Microsoft.com is the one place for Microsoft’s technical documentation.  As part of this release, we’ve also included the docs for the UWP APIs, Microsoft Edge, and Cortana...

The week in .NET – On .NET on Docker and new Core tooling, Benchmark.NET, Magicka

February 10, 2017 Feb 10, 2017 02/10/17

Vahe Minasyan

In this week’s episode, we’re running ASP.NET in a Docker image, and we look at some of the changes in the .NET Core .csproj tooling. Apologies to those of you who watched live: we had some technical difficulties, and as a consequence, we did a second recording, which is now on Channel 9...

Join Us: Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event and 20th Anniversary

February 10, 2017 Feb 10, 2017 02/10/17

Vahe Minasyan

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...

Announcing .NET Core Tools Updates in VS 2017 RC

February 9, 2017 Feb 9, 2017 02/9/17

Vahe Minasyan

Today, we are releasing updates to the .NET Core SDK, included in Visual Studio 2017 RC. You can also install the .NET Core SDK for use with Visual Studio Code or at the command line, on Windows, Mac and Linux. Check out the Visual Studio blog to learn more about this Visual Studio 2017 update...

Another Update to Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

February 9, 2017 Feb 9, 2017 02/9/17

Vahe Minasyan

Thank you for taking time to try out Visual Studio 2017 RC and sharing all your feedback. Today we have another update to Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate which mostly contains bug fixes. Take a look at the Visual Studio 2017 Release Notes and Known Issues for the full list of what’s changed with this update...