Visual Studio news feed

Visual Studio news feed

November 2017 - Page 3 of 5 - Visual Studio news feed

Cloud-hosted Mac agents for CI/CD pipelines

November 21, 2017 Nov 21, 2017 11/21/17
App Center Team
Teams developing software for Apple devices have limited options when migrating to the cloud. Because such apps must be built on Macs, and because there are few cloud-hosted Mac offerings, many teams are forced to provide their own Mac hardware for CI/CD while the rest of their DevOps are hosted in the cloud. This adds cost, maintenance, and ...

Xamarin Developer Events in November

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
App Center Team
The Xamarin and .Net mobile developer community is growing like never before and with so many new events upcoming, there is more opportunity than ever to learn about new and exciting releases, tooling, and updates on Xamarin and related technologies. Network with your local developer community while discussing this month’s ranging topics ...

Application Insights: VSTS dashboard chart widget now available

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
App Center Team
Yes, you read that correctly. We have just released an Application Insights chart widget for VSTS dashboards! It's ok, you can go ahead and say it, this has been a long time coming. We heard all of the fans from our previous metric widget very clearly that this was something almost everyone wanted. But for quite awhile we also had other, even...

Publish to Azure from Visual Studio for Mac

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
App Center Team
As a cloud first, mobile first IDE, Visual Studio for Mac is designed to work side by side with Azure. In this post, you’ll create an ASP.NET Core project, edit the site to be unique, and then deploy the project to Azure...

Monitoring Team Foundation Server 2018

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
App Center Team
Monitoring on-premises Team Foundation Server deployments is an important part of keeping them running smoothly, especially for large enterprise deployments. Good monitoring can help administrators avoid issues before they impact end users, as well as react quickly when user impacts do occur...

Visual Studio IDE extensions now published and managed at Marketplace

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
App Center Team
Consumers of Visual Studio IDE extensions visit Visual Studio Marketplace to discover and acquire extensions. But extension publishers visit Visual Studio Gallery to publish and manage their Visual Studio IDE extensions. Henceforth, extension publishing and management will also be in Marketplace. In this process, all extensions in Gallery will...

Publishing a Web App to an Azure VM from Visual Studio

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
App Center Team
We know virtual machines (VMs) are one of the most popular places to run apps in Azure, but publishing to a VM from Visual Studio has been a tricky experience for some. So, we’re pleased to announce that in Visual Studio 15.5 (get the preview now) we’ve added some improvements to the experience. In this post, we’ll discussed the ...

Last week in Azure: Capacity growth in China, Managed Applications, and more

November 8, 2017 Nov 8, 2017 11/8/17
App Center Team
Last week in Azure, the rhythm of cloud news continues with the announcement of growing capacity, general availablity and preview of services, improvements in security and other updates, and the ramp up to next week's return of an annual event. The machinery of Azure hums along as each week makes it more than it was the week before...

Introducing API Analyzer

November 8, 2017 Nov 8, 2017 11/8/17
App Center Team
Have you ever wondered which APIs are deprecated and which should you use instead? Or have you ever used an API and then found out it didn’t work on Mac or Linux? Have that ever happened to you too late when a major part of your code is already implemented and refactoring is way too hard? Both of these problems can be avoided with the new ...