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Visual Studio 2017 for the Mobile Developer

April 28, 2017 Apr 28, 2017 04/28/17

Vahe Minasyan

Visual Studio is the world’s best IDE, and it just got better with the recent launch of Visual Studio 2017. This release is packed full of awesome features including live unit testing, new refactorings, code suggestions, and C# 7 support, as well as features that help mobile developers build better mobile apps, faster. In this blog post, we...

ASP.NET Core Logging with Azure App Service and Serilog

April 28, 2017 Apr 28, 2017 04/28/17

Vahe Minasyan

ASP.NET Core supports diagnostic logging through the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging package. This logging solution (which is used throughout ASP.NET Core, including internally by the Kestrel host) is highly extensible. There’s already documentation available to help developers get started with ASP.NET Core logging, so I’d like to use this ...

How we use RM – Part 1

April 28, 2017 Apr 28, 2017 04/28/17

Vahe Minasyan

The teams that contribute to VSTS (TFS and other micro-services like Release Management, Package Management, etc) began using Release Management to deploy to production as outlined by Buck Hodges in this blog. However, in Feb this year, there was some feedback that it was difficult to debug failed deployments using RM, and that engineers were ...

Automatically build and deploy ASP.NET Core projects to Azure App Services

April 26, 2017 Apr 26, 2017 04/26/17

Vahe Minasyan

Over the last few updates we’ve been working on evening out our support for popular scenarios. Earlier this month we added support for setting up an automated DevOps pipeline in VSTS that pulls source from a public or private GitHub repository. TFVC is another scenario we’re working on to round out the extension. This update continues to ...

C++ Code Editing and Navigation in Visual Studio

April 26, 2017 Apr 26, 2017 04/26/17

Vahe Minasyan

Visual Studio comes packed with a set of productivity tools to make it easy for C++ developers to read, edit, and navigate through their code. In this blog post we will dive into these features and go over what they do. This post is part of a series aimed at new users to Visual Studio...

Implementing Push Notifications in Your Android Apps

April 26, 2017 Apr 26, 2017 04/26/17

Vahe Minasyan

An important feature of almost every app is the ability to support push notifications. With push notifications, you can update your users without requiring the app to run at all times or having it poll a server, potentially running down the battery. With the introduction of Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), Google made it a little bit easier to ...

Set up a CI/CD pipeline to run automated tests efficiently

April 26, 2017 Apr 26, 2017 04/26/17

Vahe Minasyan

Are you planning to implement automated testing in your pipeline? You probably have a few questions, such as: How does automated testing fit into DevOps? What are some different types of pipeline configurations? What key principles should you keep in mind? This post aims to answer these questions and talk about the automation of tests...

Delivering AI with data: the next generation of Microsoft’s data platform

April 21, 2017 Apr 21, 2017 04/21/17

Vahe Minasyan

Leveraging intelligence out of the ever-increasing amounts of data can make the difference between being the next market disruptor or being relegated to the pages of history. Today at the Microsoft Data Amp online event, we will make several product announcements that can help empower every organization on the planet with data-driven ...

Microsoft Cognitive Services – General availability for Face API, Computer Vision API and Content Moderator

April 21, 2017 Apr 21, 2017 04/21/17

Vahe Minasyan

Microsoft Cognitive Services enables developers to create the next generation of applications that can see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret needs using natural methods of communication. We have made adding intelligent features to your platforms easier...