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One thing I never want to worry about when building my apps is needing to remember where I stored my provisioning profiles, certificates, and keystores. Thanks to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), I no longer have to when I set up a full production pipeline with the new Secure File storage feature. In previous posts, I showed how easy it is to se...

iOS 11 has introduced a few new visual design updates that you may want to take advantage of, including safe area layout guides and large titles. For Xamarin.iOS developers, we’ve recently published an iOS 11 guide for updating your Xamarin.iOS apps and articles for safe area and large titles. Of course, since Xamarin.Forms is a layer running on to...

In Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Preview 4 we have refreshed our C++ Core Guidelines Check extension for native code static analysis tools. Most of the work since 15.3 has been focused on new rules that will help developers starting new projects write safer C++ and those with legacy projects move toward safer, modern C++. For those who are new to...

On average, 50 percent of all solutions opened by Visual Studio users open in ten seconds or less. However, large solutions can take longer to load because there are a lot of projects that Visual Studio needs to process. Over the last six months, we looked at ways to make solution load much faster, even for large solutions. We are happy to share t...

The first thing you’ll notice with Visual Studio 2017 is the new install experience which lets you pick and choose which development tools you want installed. To help you get started working on your projects quickly, Visual Studio 2017 Preview version 15.5 has parallelized initialization to make your solutions load fast and get you to writing code ...

SQL Server continues to be a proven leader in database performance for both analytic and OLTP workloads. SQL Server 2017 is fast, built-in with capabilities and features such as Columnstore indexes to accelerate analytic performance and Automatic Tuning and Adaptive Query Processing to keep your database application at peak speed.

We’re pleased to announce that Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 4 now supports F# projects targeting .NET Core, .NET Standard, and .NET Framework through the .NET Core SDK. Some of you have noticed various levels of this support in the first, second, and third previews. We still had a few work items left to complete when those were released, so we d...

It’s been a few months since we last talked about GVFS, the technology that allows Git to support Enterprise-scale Git repositories. And it’s been a busy few months. Not only have we been working on a ton of performance improvements, we’ve also been getting it ready for a wider audience so that we can bring modern version control and DevOps practi...

Tensor is an exchange type for homogenous multi-dimensional data for 1 to N dimensions. The motivation behind introducing Tensor is to make it easy for Machine Learning library vendors like CNTK, Tensorflow, Caffe, Scikit-Learn to port their libraries over to .NET with minimal dependencies in place.

The ability to store your CI build in source control has been a long running request for VSTS and TFS garnering more than 650 votes on user voice. Having your CI defined alongside your application source gives you the ability to evolve your CI as your code evolves and to apply source centric workflows like pull requests and code reviews to your CI...