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Share More Code with .NET Standard 2.0

There are several great ways to share code between applications and to create libraries to share with the world. With more and more platforms supporting C# and .NET, a new type of library, which we call .NET Standard libraries, was created to simplify development for all developers...

Visual Studio extensions for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2017

In this blogpost we want to highlight several Visual Studio extensions that can make your life better as a C++ developer if you’re using Visual Studio 2017 or considering upgrading.   We have also heard from many of you that not having certain C++ extensions available on Visual Studio 2017 was preventing you from moving to the latest ...

Create a CI/CD pipeline to Azure Service Fabric

At //BUILD 2017, we shipped an update to the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio. This update has support for configuring a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline for ASP.NET Core projects with container support to an existing Azure Service Fabric cluster directly from Visual Studio 2017...

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

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...

TFS 2018 RC1 is available

Team Foundation Server 2018 RC1 is now available for download. This is the first available build for what we have been calling TFS V.next. And, as you can tell from the title of this post, the official name will be TFS 2018. Here’s all the important links: Release notes; TFS 2018 RC1 web installer; TFS 2018 RC1 ISO; TFS 2018 RC1 Express web ...

Introducing the Xamarin Certified Mobile Professional Badge

We’ve trained thousands of developers to use .NET to build mobile applications for iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile in the three years since Xamarin University launched. Many of these developers chose to become Xamarin Certified Mobile Developers by taking 20 selected courses with our live instructors and passing a challenging exam to ...