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Microsoft joins Cloud Foundry Foundation

June 14, 2017 Jun 14, 2017 06/14/17

Vahe Minasyan

From when we first launched Azure Virtual Machines, I have had the pleasure of working with fantastic community partners and customers. We have built new open-source technologies and have made numerous community contributions. Making Azure an open, flexible, and portable platform takes a lot of friends...

Demystifying Build Configurations

June 14, 2017 Jun 14, 2017 06/14/17

Vahe Minasyan

I’m sure everyone is familiar with the Debug and Release configurations in most solution templates in use. It seems obvious to use the Debug configuration when building your project for debugging and to use the Release configuration when building your project for release. What may be less clear, though, is what’s actually happening when ...

Deploying Applications to Azure Container Service

June 14, 2017 Jun 14, 2017 06/14/17

Vahe Minasyan

In this blog post I will show you how to setup continuous delivery of a dockerized app by using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to a Kubernetes cluster running in ACS...

Manage your open source usage and security as reported by your CI/CD pipeline

June 14, 2017 Jun 14, 2017 06/14/17

Vahe Minasyan

In the article Manage your open source usage and security in your pipeline, we introduced you to WhiteSource and how it can be used to help manage open source libraries within your projects. We cover the core features of WhiteSource, the primary benefits of using it and how to implement it within your CI/CD processes...

What does an Agile/DevOps organization look like?

June 14, 2017 Jun 14, 2017 06/14/17

Vahe Minasyan

I want to share an experience that highlights why I am so proud of the organization I work in.  The experience is expressed in the form of an email thread that I had this week.  Times/timezones are a little whacky because there were 3 – the customer’s, mine and the engineer’s.  But the whole thread, from my perspective, started on ...

Diagnose sudden changes in your app behavior with a click!

June 9, 2017 Jun 9, 2017 06/9/17

Vahe Minasyan

Spikes or steps in the telemetry of your app can now be easily diagnosed. When you use Application Insights Analytics to explore app metrics over time, sudden changes, such as spikes or dips, are highlighted. With one click, Smart Diagnostics will find a pattern (a series of data with common values) that correlates with the change, and explain...

Enterprise Apps Made Easy with New Authentication & Microsoft Graph Libraries

June 9, 2017 Jun 9, 2017 06/9/17

Vahe Minasyan

Many enterprise organizations are making the move to the cloud and building mobile apps for internal use. It’s increasingly common to see enterprises with entire suites of internal apps to help make employees more productive, from expense reporting to leave management, even carpooling...

Introducing XAML Standard and .NET Standard 2.0

June 9, 2017 Jun 9, 2017 06/9/17

Vahe Minasyan

We are pleased to announce XAML Standard, which is a standards-based effort to unify XAML dialects across XAML based technologies such as UWP and Xamarin.Forms...

Mobile Center plugin for fastlane

June 9, 2017 Jun 9, 2017 06/9/17

Vahe Minasyan

Fastlane helps to streamline your iOS and Android build process by taking care of tedious and repetitive tasks and thus saves developer time. With HockeyApp and fastlane, you can already simplify beta distribution significantly...

Unleashed: Embedding Xamarin.Forms in Xamarin Native

June 7, 2017 Jun 7, 2017 06/7/17

Vahe Minasyan

If you’re anything like me, when you’re ready to start coding a new application you face the question, “Xamarin Native or Xamarin.Forms?” The only correct answer should be “yes”. In fact, I want to show you how this shouldn’t be a choice at all; you can just start coding with total confidence that you’re on the right path...