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Step-back while debugging with IntelliTrace

October 20, 2017 Oct 20, 2017 10/20/17
Vahe Minasyan
Have you ever stepped while debugging, realized that you’ve taken one step too far, and wished you could step back? Or, while stepping, saw a variable change in an unexpected way, and wish you could go back a step and see what its value was before? Now you can, all without having to restart debugging to recreate the state again...

Bing Search API v7 and Bing Custom Search are now generally available

October 20, 2017 Oct 20, 2017 10/20/17
Vahe Minasyan
Microsoft Cognitive Services enables developers to augment the next generation of applications with the ability to see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret needs using natural methods of communication. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Bing Custom Search API and Bing Search API v7. Showcased at Microsoft Ignite 2017 just ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.4 Released

October 13, 2017 Oct 13, 2017 10/13/17
Vahe Minasyan
Yesterday we released updates to several of our products: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4, support for .NET Standard 2.0 in the Universal Windows Platform, and the release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.2. We’ll talk about them briefly in that order, but as always, there’s a lot more information in the release notes for each product. ...

Updating Xamarin.iOS Apps for the iPhone X

October 13, 2017 Oct 13, 2017 10/13/17
Vahe Minasyan
There’s no doubt that one of the biggest announcements at WWDC this year was the iPhone X. The new Super Retina display is edge-to-edge on the device, creating an immersive experience we had yet to see on iPhones. With the new screen changes on the iPhone X, developers may be asking themselves, “What do I have to do update my app?” Let...

Build and Release Five-Star Apps Faster

October 13, 2017 Oct 13, 2017 10/13/17
Vahe Minasyan
The first step in the life of a mobile app is build automation, which builds the app and runs required tests to make sure the app follows required rules. Build automation is also the first step towards shipping high quality, five-star mobile apps. When building iOS and Android mobile applications, one of the main challenges is getting all the ...

Azure DevTest Labs: Set access rights to an environment resource group

October 13, 2017 Oct 13, 2017 10/13/17
Vahe Minasyan
Previously, creating or modifying objects within a resource group that contained an environment was not possible because a lab user had only Reader access to that resource group. You can now set Contributor access rights on a resource group that contains your environment, so that you have the flexibility of modifying your environment objects...

Announcing UWP Support for .NET Standard 2.0

October 13, 2017 Oct 13, 2017 10/13/17
Vahe Minasyan
Today, we are releasing huge updates to UWP for .NET developers. The really big improvement is adding support for .NET Standard 2.0. UWP developers now have access to ~ 20k more APIs. This release brings UWP to partity with the other .NET implementations that support .NET Standard 2.0...

Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0

October 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017 10/11/17
Vahe Minasyan
Earlier this year, I wrote about an update to the roadmap for F# and .NET Core. I had mentioned that there were a number of things you could build with F# and .NET Core today, such as web services. In this post, I’ll walk through building a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0 using the Giraffe library...