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Cortana coming to more devices in 2018 through Devices SDK and new reference designs (UWP)

January 24, 2018 Jan 24, 2018 01/24/18
App Center Team
To kick-off 2018, we’re making it easier than ever for OEMs and developers to build for Cortana with the Cortana Devices SDK. Just last week, Johnson Controls announced the new Cortana-enabled JCI Glas thermostat, built using the Cortana Devices SDK. We’ve also partnered with industry leaders including Allwinner, Synaptics, TONLY and ...

CosmosDB: Serverless NoSQL for the .NET Developer [video]

January 24, 2018 Jan 24, 2018 01/24/18
App Center Team
In this episode, Dmitry is joined by Jeremy Likness, who shows us CosmosDB. This is the Azure database-as-a-service that features geo-replication, user configurable consistency levels, and supports a variety of interfaces from the classic DocumentDB to MongoDB and more. Jeremy demonstrates how to set up a CosmosDB account, load data, and ...

Database DevOps with Redgate ReadyRoll [video]

January 19, 2018 Jan 19, 2018 01/19/18
App Center Team
In this first of two episodes, Robert is joined by Steve Jones to discuss how you can use the Redgate Data Tools that are included in Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 to extend DevOps practices to SQL Server and Azure SQL databases. In this episode, Steve demonstrates the migrations-based approach used by ReadyRoll, which generates numerically ...

Delivering Rich Media Experiences with the Xamarin.Forms Video Player

January 19, 2018 Jan 19, 2018 01/19/18
App Center Team
Delivering an interactive and engaging experience is critical to standing out in today’s massive app marketplace. Using video in your mobile apps offers an excellent way to engage your users and keep them in your app longer. Adam’s Xamarin.Forms Video Player minimizes the complexity of video playback across Android, iOS, and Windows ...

Xamarin Developer Events This January

January 19, 2018 Jan 19, 2018 01/19/18
App Center Team
It’s only the beginning of the year, but there are already many opportunities to get out and start building on your mobile app development education! Network with local user groups to learn about new and exciting releases, tooling, or updates to Xamarin and related technologies. Below are just a few of the Xamarin events happening around the...

CoreML Programming with Xamarin.Mac and F#

January 19, 2018 Jan 19, 2018 01/19/18
App Center Team
Although Xamarin technologies are most commonly used to develop mobile applications, Xamarin.Mac makes it easy to use your preferred .NET language to develop desktop Mac apps. There are many C# examples in Xamarin’s mac-samples directory on Github, but it’s also easy to use F# to develop desktop Mac apps as well. Currently, there is no ...

Visual Studio for Mac as the default editor for Unity

January 17, 2018 Jan 17, 2018 01/17/18
App Center Team
Unity is a powerful solution to create games for a multitude of platforms, from mobiles to consoles, desktop and web games. Since Unity 5.2, Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Tools for Unity have been the default experience on Windows. When we released Visual Studio for Mac last year, Unity was among the first scenarios we supported out of ...

.NET for UWP January 2018 Update

January 17, 2018 Jan 17, 2018 01/17/18
App Center Team
Today, we are releasing the .NET for UWP January 2018 Update. This post includes the fix included and instructions on how to update your applications. .NET for UWP fixes are released differently than .NET Framework. While .NET Framework fixes are released via Windows Update, .NET for UWP requires that applications be re-processed by the .NET...

.NET Framework 4.7.1 is available on Windows Update, WSUS and MU Catalog!

January 17, 2018 Jan 17, 2018 01/17/18
App Center Team
Today, we are happy to announce the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 is available on Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Microsoft Update (MU) Catalog. This includes reliability fixes based on your early feedback on the release. .NET Framework 4.7.1 is available for the following client and server platforms: Client ...