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Modernize existing .NET apps with Windows Containers and Azure

There are many reasons why you would want to modernize your existing server-side app. Modernization will bring you Deployment, and DevOps improvements. Also moving your application to the cloud will help you be more productive by no longer spending time on on-going maintenance and the ability to scale-out easily...

DevOps with Azure and VSTS: Videos from Ignite 2017

The Visual Studio Team Services team just got back from Microsoft Ignite, and we had the opportunity to talk to so many people about VSTS and DevOps. But if you weren’t able to make it to Ignite, you can take advantage of the next best thing: you can watch the recordings of our sessions online...

Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3 available

Today we released the final build of TFS 2017 Update 3. This release follows the release candidate and addresses all the customer feedback we have gotten and all the issues we have found in extensive testing. If you are on TFS 2017 or are upgrading to it, this is the release I would recommend for you...

Welcome to C# 7.1

With C# we have always tended towards major releases: bundle a lot of features up, and release less frequently. We even went so far as routinely omitting the traditional ".0" when we talked about C# 6.0! In the C# 7.0 "wave" we are trying something new. Tools such as Visual Studio upgrade on a frequent cadence, and there’s no longer a ...

CMake Support in Visual Studio – Import Your CMake Cache

Configuring a CMake project to build in just the way you want can often be a time intensive process, so in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 preview we have made it easier than ever to import your existing CMake projects and cache configurations into the IDE.  You can now import an existing CMakeCache.txt file and Visual Studio will automatically ...

Visual Studio Team Services Update – Oct 30

I won’t comment too much on the new capabilities this sprint.  There’s a bunch of nice stuff but not a lot that is earth shaking.  Our focus for the last sprint or two has been on some things we are going to unveil at our Connect(); conference in about 2 weeks (Nov 15 – 17).  There’s a small in-person component to the conference but...

Recent updates for publishing to Azure

We have recently added a few interesting features for ASP.NET publishing. The updates include: Container Registry Publish Updates; Create publish profile without publishing. In this post, we will briefly describe these updates. We will get started with the container related news...

Augmented Reality in Xamarin.Android with ARCore

Now that you’ve had a chance to augment reality in your Xamarin iOS apps with ARKit, it’s time to explore Google’s take on AR in your Xamarin Android apps. The new ARCore SDK provides APIs for Augmented Reality features, such as motion tracking, plane detection, and light estimation. These are the building blocks you will use to add AR ...

Sharing Configuration in ASP.NET Core SPA Scenarios

ASP.NET Core 2.0 recently released and, with it, came some new templates, including new project templates for single-page applications (SPA) served from an ASP.NET Core backend. These templates make it easy to setup a web application with a rich JavaScript frontend and powerful ASP.NET Core backend. Even better, the templates enable server-...

Go Large with iOS 11

One of the more obvious user interface changes in iOS 11 is the larger titles that are used across the system apps, from the App Store and Apple Music to Notes and Mail. The Health and Contact apps are shown below...