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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-side pre...

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:

TypeScript 2.6 is here in time for Halloween, but have no fear! We’ve got some great treats for you in this release. If you haven’t heard of TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on top of the most up-to-date versions of JavaScript by adding optional static types. These types don’t just help catch things like typos and logic errors; they also can...

Yesterday we released the second Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and we would love it if you would try it out and tell us what you think. We’ve polished up some features that were introduced with the first Preview, addressed some of the issues you’ve reported, and made improvements in the product’s fundamentals such as performance, relia...

Five-star mobile apps are all about consistent and predictable output. It’s not a good experience for users when an app suddenly crashes or doesn’t format correctly on their mobile screens. Developers can easily avoid these scenarios by testing for various scenarios on different devices, and Visual Studio Mobile Center makes it easy to test your mo...

In our earlier post “Continuous Delivery Tools Extension for Visual Studio 2017” , we introduced failure notifications for a single tracked Continuous Integration (CI) build on Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).

I’m thrilled to share our new, exclusive partnership with Cray that will provide our customers unprecedented access to supercomputing capabilities in Azure to solve their toughest challenges in climate modeling, precision medicine, energy, manufacturing, and other scientific research.

Hi! We’re Travis Wright and Tobias Ternstrom from the Microsoft SQL Server engineering team and we along with other members of the team are hosting a Reddit Ask Me Anything session on /r/Database, Wednesday, October 25, 2017, from 10:00 am to 11:30am PDT.

With all the things Azure can do, it’s hard to know where to start answering these important questions. But there’s a really easy way to explore the potential of Azure completely free and at your own pace: by creating a free Azure account. In fact, if you’re a Visual Studio subscriber either on your own or through your employer you effectively have...

Xamarin.Forms has supported iOS, Android, and Windows for a long time. We’ve also added new platforms to keep up with the changing landscape, such as Tizen and macOS, with Linux and Windows WPF on the horizon. These platforms run on a wide variety of devices including phones, tablets, desktops, and TVs. This presents an interesting challenge for us...