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

September 8, 2017 Sep 8, 2017 09/8/17
Vahe Minasyan
This post series provides the latest updates and news for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) 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 month...

Xamarin Live Player Preview 2: Continuously Run and Debug Apps

September 8, 2017 Sep 8, 2017 09/8/17
Vahe Minasyan
We introduced the Xamarin Live Player, a brand new way for developers to get started with Xamarin development faster than ever with just Visual Studio and an iOS or Android device, at this year’s Build developer conference. Based on your feedback from the first preview, we’re excited to announce an update to the Xamarin Live Player preview...

Bringing Communities Together: Xamarin MVPs Join Microsoft MVPs

September 8, 2017 Sep 8, 2017 09/8/17
Vahe Minasyan
The Xamarin MVP Program and Microsoft MVP Award Program share a common bond in recognizing leaders who make outstanding contributions to our technical communities. In the last year, we’ve taken steps to bring our communities closer together, by making Xamarin University and Microsoft MSDN benefits available to all members of both programs, ...

Python updates in Visual Studio 15.4 Preview 1

September 8, 2017 Sep 8, 2017 09/8/17
Vahe Minasyan
It's been a while since we last posted, and we've been hard at work on new features for Python in Visual Studio 2017. Today, the first preview of the next update has been released, which you can install from visualstudio.com or by updating your existing Preview install.  In this post, we'll briefly discuss the new features in this preview, ...

Announcing TypeScript 2.5

September 6, 2017 Sep 6, 2017 09/6/17
Vahe Minasyan
Today we’re happy to bring you TypeScript 2.5! If you’ve read our RC announcement, we’ve got a few new items that we’re proud to highlight! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a typed superset of JavaScript. More simply put, it’s just JavaScript with optional static types. Static types can make it easier to maintain ...

Managing Release Notifications

September 6, 2017 Sep 6, 2017 09/6/17
Vahe Minasyan
When you are configuring continuous deployment pipelines for your team, it becomes essential to keep the team members informed about the progress of releases and the related action items. We had started preview of the release notifications feature that integrates the configuration of release related notifications with the default notification ...

Wiki supports HTML tags, anchor links, and much more

September 6, 2017 Sep 6, 2017 09/6/17
Vahe Minasyan
It has been exactly 2 months since Wiki went live on VSTS. Wiki is also available in TFS 2018 RC1 now. We have received tons of great feedback and we also learnt a lot from usage patterns. I wanted to talk about some of our learnings and the improvements in Wiki...

Visual Studio Team Services Encryption at Rest

September 6, 2017 Sep 6, 2017 09/6/17
Vahe Minasyan
Customers interested in ensuring the highest level of protection for their data stored in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) often ask about our ability to encrypt their data at rest. To meet these organizational security and compliance requirements, our goal is to fully encrypt all customer data in VSTS...