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Using .NET and Docker Together

May 31, 2017 May 31, 2017 05/31/17
Vahe Minasyan
Many developers I talk to are either using Docker actively or planning to adopt containers in their environment. Containers are an important trend in our industry and .NET is part of that. Microsoft and Docker have been working together so that you’ll have a great experience using Docker with .NET apps...

The largest Git repo on the planet

May 31, 2017 May 31, 2017 05/31/17
Vahe Minasyan
It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”.  As a reminder, GVFS, together with a set of enhancements to Git, enables Git to scale to VERY large repos by virtualizing both the .git folder and the working directory.  ...

What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: May 2017 Digest

May 31, 2017 May 31, 2017 05/31/17
Vahe Minasyan
This post series provides the latest updates and news for Visual Studio Team Services and is a great way for Azure users to keep up-to-date with new features being released every three weeks. Visual Studio Team Services offers the best DevOps tooling to create an efficient continuous integration and release pipeline to Azure. This sprint has ...

Announcing General Availability of Work item search

May 31, 2017 May 31, 2017 05/31/17
Vahe Minasyan
Discovering relevant work items should consume as little time and effort as possible. That’s why we have built work item search with speed and simplicity in mind, so you can spend more of your time on your work and less time searching for work items.  Say hello to Work item search, now available by default with Visual Studio Team Services...

Build 2017 Recap

May 24, 2017 May 24, 2017 05/24/17
Vahe Minasyan
It was a busy week for everyone last week at the Build 2017 conference in Seattle. Thanks to everyone who was able to attend the conference and stop by the DevOps area to talk about VSTS. Even for the people that were there in person it is impossible to catch everything, but also for the hundreds of thousands watching online I thought it would...

Use SaaS patterns to accelerate SaaS app development on SQL Database

May 24, 2017 May 24, 2017 05/24/17
Vahe Minasyan
We’re delighted to announce availability of a sample SaaS application and a series of management scripts and tutorials that demonstrate a range of SaaS-focused design and management patterns that can accelerate SaaS application development on SQL Database. These patterns extend the benefits of SQL Database, making it the most effective and ...

Using C++ Coroutines with Boost C++ Libraries

May 24, 2017 May 24, 2017 05/24/17
Vahe Minasyan
Last month, Jim Springfield wrote a great article on using C++ Coroutines with Libuv (a multi-platform C library for asynchronous I/O). This month we will look at how to use coroutines with components of Boost C++ libraries, namely boost::future and boost::asio...

Application Insights support for Microservices and Containers

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Vahe Minasyan
We’ve recently made it much easier to monitor microservices and containerized applications using Azure Application Insights. A single Application Insights resource can be used for all the components of your application. The health of the services and the relationships between them are displayed on a single Application Map. You can trace ...

Glimpse the Future of Xamarin Forms 3.0

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Vahe Minasyan
At Microsoft Build 2017 we shared our vision for Xamarin.Forms 3.0: to enable using Xamarin.Forms in more ways, on more platforms, and faster than ever before. Today, I want to walk you through some of the exciting new features that we’ll be adding to Xamarin.Forms that we know you’re going to love...