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ASP.NET Core 2.0 Features

August 30, 2017 Aug 30, 2017 08/30/17
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 ...

New WinDbg available in preview!

August 30, 2017 Aug 30, 2017 08/30/17
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, ...

Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Architecture and Patterns guidance

August 30, 2017 Aug 30, 2017 08/30/17
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...

The future of our TFS/SharePoint Integration

August 25, 2017 Aug 25, 2017 08/25/17
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...

Committing with Confidence: Commit Time Code Quality Information Updated

August 25, 2017 Aug 25, 2017 08/25/17
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 ...

Create a CI/CD pipeline for containerized ASP.NET Core projects

August 25, 2017 Aug 25, 2017 08/25/17
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 ...