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Continuous Delivery Tools Extension for Visual Studio 2017

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17
Vahe Minasyan
DevOps is all about getting your applications into customers’ hands quickly. The Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio is a new extension for Visual Studio 2017 that brings DevOps capabilities to the IDE. You can use the extension to setup an automated build, test, and release pipeline on Visual Studio Team Services, for an ASP.NET 4 ...

JSON data in clustered column store indexes

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17
Vahe Minasyan
Clustered column store indexes (CCI) in SQL Server vNext and Azure SQL Database support LOB types like NVARCHAR(MAX), which allows you to store string with any size, including JSON documents with any size. With CCI you can get 3x compression and query speedup compared to regular tables without any application or query rewrites. In this post we...

Integrating In-App Purchases in Mobile Apps

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17
Vahe Minasyan
Developers often need to integrate monetization to generate revenue when developing mobile apps. There are several ways to monetize apps, but at some point you may want to introduce In-App Purchases, or IAPs, into your app. IAPs can be used...

January 2017 Update for ASP.NET Core 1.1

February 3, 2017 Feb 3, 2017 02/3/17
Vahe Minasyan
We just released an update for ASP.NET Core 1.1 due to Microsoft Security Advisory 4010983. The advisory is for a vulnerability in ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1.0 that could allow denial of service. All of the information you need is in the advisory. A short summary is provided below...

Update to Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

February 3, 2017 Feb 3, 2017 02/3/17
Vahe Minasyan
Today we have another update to Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate. Some of you may have noticed that yesterday we posted an RC update, but took it down because of a setup issue. The issue is now fixed so please give it a try. To try out the newest version, you can either click on the link above or click on the notification within Visual ...

The .NET Language Strategy

February 3, 2017 Feb 3, 2017 02/3/17
Vahe Minasyan
I am constantly aware of the enormous impact our language investments have on so many people’s daily lives. Our languages are a huge strength of the .NET platform, and a primary factor in people choosing to bet on it – and stay on it...