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Aug 30, 2017
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ASP.NET Core 2.0 Features

Vahe Minasyan
Vahe Minasyan

Last week we announced the release of ASP.NET Core 2.0 and described some top new features, including Razor Pages, new and updated templates, and Application Insights integration. In this blog post we are going to dig into more details of features in 2.0. This list is not exhaustive or in any particular order, but highlights a number of interesting...

Aug 30, 2017
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New WinDbg available in preview!

Vahe Minasyan
Vahe Minasyan

We are excited to announce a preview version of a brand new WinDbg. We’ve updated WinDbg to have more modern visuals, faster windows, a full-fledged scripting experience, built with the easily extensible debugger data model front and center. I’ll start this by saying that WinDbg Preview is using the same underlying engine as WinDbg today, so all th...

Aug 30, 2017
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Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Architecture and Patterns guidance

Vahe Minasyan
Vahe Minasyan

As part of the series of posts announced at this initial blog post (.NET Application Architecture Guidance) that explores each of the architecture areas currently covered by our team, this current blog post focuses on “Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Architecture and Patterns guidance“.

Aug 25, 2017
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New Tools in Windows Device Portal for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (UWP)

Vahe Minasyan
Vahe Minasyan

In the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Device Portal now offers several new tools from across Windows to help you location test your UWP, explore Mixed Reality, build new hardware peripherals and test your app’s new installation pipeline. It’s a little bit of goodness for everyone, and we’re excited to share these with you.

Aug 25, 2017
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Now available in India: Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Vahe Minasyan
Vahe Minasyan

We recently announced public preview availability of Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL in West and Central India. PostgreSQL and MySQL are ubiquitous names in the world of open source relational databases, as these database engines have been widely embraced by developers in recent years. Microsoft’s Azure cloud is a first-class platform for o...

Aug 25, 2017
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The future of our TFS/SharePoint Integration

Vahe Minasyan
Vahe Minasyan

Team Foundation Server (TFS) has provided SharePoint integration since its inception in 2005.  That integration included SharePoint site templates and automatic site provisioning as well as support for browsing document libraries from inside Visual Studio Team Explorer. In the ensuing years, a lot has changed – both in SharePoint and in TFS.  The e...

Aug 25, 2017
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Committing with Confidence: Commit Time Code Quality Information Updated

Vahe Minasyan
Vahe Minasyan

In the earlier post “Committing with Confidence: Getting Code Quality Information at Commit Time” , we introduced the new Build and Code Analysis Results panel, which gives you a heads-up reminder at commit-time of issues detected by any code analysis tool that puts results in the error list. This means you can take care of those issues before they...

Aug 25, 2017
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Create a CI/CD pipeline for containerized ASP.NET Core projects

Vahe Minasyan
Vahe Minasyan

At //BUILD 2017, we shipped an update to the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio with support for configuring a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline for ASP.NET Core projects with container support to an existing Azure App Service on Linux directly from Visual Studio 2017. With the latest update to the extension we introd...