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One of the most common requirements for web applications is for users create accounts for the purpose of access control and personalization. While ASP.NET templates have always made it easy to create an application that uses a database you control to register and track user accounts, that introduces other complications over the long term. As laws a...

iOS 11 introduced some fun updates around permissions when accessing certain features on the device. I first noticed these changes when trying to access a user location with the Geolocator Plugin in a Xamarin.Forms application. To my surprise, nothing happened. Upon further investigation of the application’s Output, I noticed a message explaining e...

Today, we are announcing the release of the .NET Framework 4.7.1. It’s included in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. .NET Framework 4.7.1 is also available on Windows 7+ and Windows Server 2008 R2+.  We’ve added support for targeting the .NET Framework 4.7.1 in Visual Studio 2017 15.5.

Have you ever stepped while debugging, realized that you’ve taken one step too far, and wished you could step back? Or, while stepping, saw a variable change in an unexpected way, and wish you could go back a step and see what its value was before? Now you can, all without having to restart debugging to recreate the state again!

In this last part of the series of blog posts on using Azure Function, we will introduce how we monitor our Azure Function thanks to Application Insights.

Microsoft Cognitive Services enables developers to augment the next generation of applications with the ability to see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret needs using natural methods of communication. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Bing Custom Search API and Bing Search API v7. Showcased at Microsoft Ignite 2017 just last ...

It has been 3 months since Wiki went live and thanks to your feedback, we believe this is the right time to remove preview tag from Wiki. Wiki* will be Wiki in the coming days.

Yesterday we released updates to several of our products: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4, support for .NET Standard 2.0 in the Universal Windows Platform, and the release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.2. We’ll talk about them briefly in that order, but as always, there’s a lot more information in the release notes for each product. If you’d l...

There’s no doubt that one of the biggest announcements at WWDC this year was the iPhone X. The new Super Retina display is edge-to-edge on the device, creating an immersive experience we had yet to see on iPhones. With the new screen changes on the iPhone X, developers may be asking themselves, “What do I have to do update my app?” Let’s take a loo...

The first step in the life of a mobile app is build automation, which builds the app and runs required tests to make sure the app follows required rules. Build automation is also the first step towards shipping high quality, five-star mobile apps. When building iOS and Android mobile applications, one of the main challenges is getting all the requi...