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Announcing .NET Summer Hackfest 2017 (July/August)

July 19, 2017 Jul 19, 2017 07/19/17
Vahe Minasyan
Hey! Let's have some summer* fun!  Here's the idea: .NET Summer Hackfest is a six week community open source community run hackfest. We'll form up into loose teams to contribute to an open source project for a two week session. After that, a new project starts up, but you're of course free (and, of course, encouraged) to keep contributing to ...

WCF Web Service Reference Provider – Metadata Exchange Endpoint Authentication

July 14, 2017 Jul 14, 2017 07/14/17
Vahe Minasyan
With the recent update to the WCF Service Reference tool in the VS Marketplace, support has been added for downloading metadata for a web service where the metadata exchange (MEX) endpoint has been secured with IIS authentication. The purpose of MEX endpoints is to allow clients to discover the service capabilities, including security aspects ...

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

July 14, 2017 Jul 14, 2017 07/14/17
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...

Calling all game devs: The Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge is Here!

July 14, 2017 Jul 14, 2017 07/14/17
Vahe Minasyan
Dream.Build.Play is back! The long-running indie game development contest was on hiatus for a few years, so it’s high time for it to make a resounding return. The Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge is the new contest: It just launched on June 27, and it challenges you to build a game and submit it by December 31 in one of four categories. We’...

Hands on with Visual Studio for Mac – Part 2

July 14, 2017 Jul 14, 2017 07/14/17
Vahe Minasyan
Since the release of Visual Studio for Mac we’ve been amazed by the number of Mac developers using it to build native apps for Mac, iOS, and Android, using Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms; web sites and services using ASP.NET Core; and games using Unity. We’re also excited by the number of developers trying it for the first time, and we want to ...

Announcing new set of Azure Services in the UK

July 12, 2017 Jul 12, 2017 07/12/17
Vahe Minasyan
We’re pleased to announce the following services which are now available in the UK! Azure Container Service –  Azure Container Service is the fastest way to realize the benefits of running containers in production. It uses customers’ preferred choice of open source technology, tools, and skills, combined with the confidence of solid ...

Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.5

July 12, 2017 Jul 12, 2017 07/12/17
Vahe Minasyan
Today marks the sixth release of the UWP Community Toolkit – all packages are updated to version 1.5. Thanks to the UWP developer community, the UWP Community Toolkit has seen great improvements and stability to the existing controls and services. The community partnership has led to several new additions to this release...