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New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 5

December 29, 2017 Dec 29, 2017 12/29/17
App Center Team
This week we released Visual Studio 2017 Update 5. In this release, we added new Git features which were based on your UserVoice requests to support Git submodules, Git worktrees, fetch --prune, and pull --rebase. To learn more about all of our Git features and what’s new in Visual Studio 2017 Update 5, check out our Git tutorials and the ...

Connect(); 2017: SmartHotel360 Demo Apps and Architecture

December 29, 2017 Dec 29, 2017 12/29/17
App Center Team
Last month we hosted Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Connect(); is a three-day, in-person and online developer event. If you missed it, no worries! You can watch our keynotes, sessions, and on-demand videos on Channel 9. For the past five months our keynote demo team worked on a new set of reference apps. We used most of these apps and...

Visual Studio Updates for Office 365 APIs Tools

December 29, 2017 Dec 29, 2017 12/29/17
App Center Team
As we recently detailed on the Office Developer blog, we are making it simpler and easier for developers to connect to Office 365 through the Microsoft Graph. For Visual Studio developers currently using the Office 365 API Tools to create applications, you should plan to transition your apps to use Microsoft Graph to access Office 365 data ...

How to use multiple enlistments (C++ team blog)

December 29, 2017 Dec 29, 2017 12/29/17
App Center Team
Vcpkg allows you to acquire and build 3rd party libraries on Windows. Once cloned, the vcpkg directory (enlistment) provides a stable set of libraries that are all compatible and based on the latest published version of these libraries. Occasionally, you may need different versions of the same library. By design, you can’t have two different...

Sky’s the limit with Azure, ASP.NET Core, and Visual Studio for Mac

December 20, 2017 Dec 20, 2017 12/20/17
App Center Team
Cloud services represent a huge leap in functionality, performance, and management simplicity for web apps, APIs, mobile backends, and more. To help you get started with cloud-based development in Visual Studio for Mac, today we’re publishing two new hands-on labs: publishing your ASP.NET Core web app to Azure, and connecting your ASP.NET ...

Free eBook – The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure now available

December 20, 2017 Dec 20, 2017 12/20/17
App Center Team
Today, we are pleased to introduce a free eBook titled, The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure second edition. The book was written by Michael Crump and Barry Luijbregts to help you on your journey to the cloud, whether you’re just considering making the move, or you’ve already decided and are underway. This eBook was written by ...

Native Forms is Polished and Shiny in Xamarin.Forms 2.5.0

December 20, 2017 Dec 20, 2017 12/20/17
App Center Team
Since we previewed Native Forms in June, we’ve been working to smooth the rough edges and polish it up for Xamarin.Forms 2.5.0 by fixing bugs and integrating the excellent feedback from the community. Last month at Microsoft Connect(); in New York, several Native Forms examples were used in the keynote presentation. Most notably, James ...

Two-phase name lookup support comes to MSVC (C++ team blog)

December 20, 2017 Dec 20, 2017 12/20/17
App Center Team
“Two-phase name lookup” is an informal term that refers to a set of rules governing the resolution of names used in a template declaration. These rules were formalized more than two decades ago in an attempt to reconcile two opposing compilation models for templates: the inclusion model (what most developers know of templates today), and ...

What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS): December 2017 Digest

December 15, 2017 Dec 15, 2017 12/15/17
App Center Team
The Connect(); conference highlights developer tools like Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and the rest of the Visual Studio family of products. It’s an event full of news and training about software development and DevOps, and if you missed the live stream, the DevOps and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) sessions are all available to ...