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Live Webinar | Getting the Most Out of Xamarin.Forms for Visual Studio 2017

April 14, 2017 Apr 14, 2017 04/14/17

Vahe Minasyan

Xamarin.Forms gets better, faster, and more performant with each release, making it easier for developers to build amazing Android, iOS, and UWP apps from a single codebase. You can learn about all of the exciting updates in our latest release in my upcoming demo-packed webinar, Getting the Most Out of Xamarin.Forms for Visual Studio 2017, on ...

Reintroducing the Team Explorer standalone installer

April 12, 2017 Apr 12, 2017 04/12/17

Vahe Minasyan

If you remember back to 2013 (and before), we released standalone installers for Team Explorer. In VS 2015, we did not release a standalone Team Explorer since customers had free options with Express SKUs and Community, which included Team Explorer functionality. Customers have continued to request a standalone installer for Team Explorer for ...

Deploying to On-Premises Environments with Visual Studio Team Services or Team Foundation Server

April 12, 2017 Apr 12, 2017 04/12/17

Vahe Minasyan

Your company’s apps may not be hosted in the cloud yet for various reasons, such as their configuration, dependencies, or network requirements. That’s okay!   What many people don’t know is that you can still take advantage of great tools like Visual Studio Team Services or Team Foundation Server to manage your deployments.  You’re ...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7

April 12, 2017 Apr 12, 2017 04/12/17

Vahe Minasyan

Today, we are announcing the release of the .NET Framework 4.7. It’s included in the Windows 10 Creators Update. We’ve added support for targeting the .NET Framework 4.7 in Visual Studio 2017, also updated today. The .NET Framework 4.7 will be released for additional Windows versions soon. We’ll make an announcement when we have the ...

New integrated portal for Azure Functions

April 12, 2017 Apr 12, 2017 04/12/17

Vahe Minasyan

I’m excited to announce a new integrated portal experience for Azure Functions. Previously, there was somewhat disjoint experience between Function Apps and App Service. For many management operations, customers had to navigate to the App Service resource blade, and we heard feedback that customers wanted a more integrated and streamlined ...

Managing Configuration and App Settings for Multiple Environments in Your CD Pipeline

April 12, 2017 Apr 12, 2017 04/12/17

Vahe Minasyan

Your continuous delivery pipeline typically consists of multiple environments. You may want to deploy changes first to a test or staging environment before deploying to a production environment. Furthermore, your production environment may itself comprise of multiple scale units, each of which you may deploy in parallel or one after the other ...

Announcing Xamarin.Forms Stable Release 2.3.4

April 7, 2017 Apr 7, 2017 04/7/17

Vahe Minasyan

Today, we’re excited to announce the latest stable release of Xamarin.Forms, version 2.3.4.224. The major themes of this release are quality and performance. For the complete list of updates, as well as some important notes, be sure to review the full release notes here...

Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.4

April 7, 2017 Apr 7, 2017 04/7/17

Vahe Minasyan

The UWP Community Toolkit is on its fourth release today. The previous version was packed with new controls, so we decided to focus on stabilizations and improvements on existing controls and services in version 1.4...

The week in .NET – On .NET on SonarLint and SonarQube, Happy birthday .NET with Dan Fernandez, nopCommerce, Steve Gordon

April 7, 2017 Apr 7, 2017 04/7/17

Vahe Minasyan

This week, we’ll have Sébastien Ros on the show to talk about modular ASP.NET applications, as they are implemented in Orchard Core. We’ll take questions on Gitter, on the 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 show...

Visual Studio 2017 Update is now available for download

April 7, 2017 Apr 7, 2017 04/7/17

Vahe Minasyan

In this update, which will show up in Help/About as 15.1 (26403.0), we’ve added support for the Windows 10 Creators Update SDK, added support in Xamarin Workbooks for C# 7, and updated the Redgate Data Tools. There is also a set of performance improvements you can read about in Bertan’s post, Visual Studio 2017 Performance Improvements. ...