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We added a new type of IntelliSense squiggle to C++ Open Folder and CMake to streamline cross-platform development

January 31, 2018 Jan 31, 2018 01/31/18
App Center Team
Today’s preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 Preview 2 includes two IntelliSense improvements to streamline code editing for C++ Open Folder and CMake. We added a new type of IntelliSense squiggle to C++ Open Folder and CMake to streamline cross-platform development. We also now support a new heuristic and wildcard syntax to the ...

64-bit ASP.NET Core on Azure App Service

January 26, 2018 Jan 26, 2018 01/26/18
App Center Team
When creating an Azure App Service .NET Core is already pre-installed. However, only the 32 bit .NET runtime is installed. In this post we will look at a few ways that you can get a 64 bit runtime on Azure App Service. During the 2.1 timeframe we are hoping to have both 32 and 64 bit runtimes installed as well as enabling the portal ...

Xamarin University Presents: Ship better apps with Visual Studio App Center

January 26, 2018 Jan 26, 2018 01/26/18
App Center Team
At Microsoft Connect(); last November, we announced the general availability of Visual Studio App Center to help (Obj-C, Swift, Java, React Native, and Xamarin) developers quickly build, test, deploy, monitor, and improve their phone, tablet, desktop, and connected device apps with powerful, automated lifecycle services. As a .NET developer, ...

Azure Functions: Less-Server and More Code [video]

January 26, 2018 Jan 26, 2018 01/26/18
App Center Team
In this episode, Dmitry is joined by Jeremy Likness for a discussion of Azure Functions, which provide the powerful capability to merge events and code to quickly deploy micro services directly from Visual Studio or as part of a DevOps pipeline. With a variety of triggers that call the code and bindings that connect code with resources like ...

Visual C++  2017 Throughput Improvements and Advice

January 26, 2018 Jan 26, 2018 01/26/18
App Center Team
As C++ programs get larger and larger and the optimizer becomes more complex the compiler’s build time, or throughput, increasingly comes into focus. It’s something that needs to be continually addressed as new patterns emerge and take hold (such as “unity” builds in gaming). It’s something we’re focusing on here in the Visual C++ ...

Discover the latest C++17 progress in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 and 15.6

January 24, 2018 Jan 24, 2018 01/24/18
App Center Team
VS 2017 15.5 is now available for production use, and 15.6 Preview 1 is also available. As usual, here are feature tables for the STL and compiler, plus a detailed list of STL improvements. (You can also read our previous changelog for VS 2017 15.3.) Please note that due to our branch structure and merge timing, features and fixes described ...

VSTS will no longer allow creation of new MSA users with custom domain names backed by AzureAD

January 24, 2018 Jan 24, 2018 01/24/18
App Center Team
On September 15, 2016, the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) team blocked the ability to create new Microsoft accounts using email addresses in domains that are configured in Azure AD. Many VSTS customers expressed concern when this change happened. As a result, we worked with the Azure AD team to get a temporary exception for our service to ...