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.NET Core January 2018 Update

January 17, 2018 Jan 17, 2018 01/17/18

App Center Team

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core January 2018 Update. This includes .NET Core 1.0.9, 1.1.6 and 2.0.5. Please leave feedback on the release in the comments below or at dotnet/core #1199...

Last week in Azure: Securing Azure infrastructure from CPU vulnerability, and more

January 17, 2018 Jan 17, 2018 01/17/18

App Center Team

As we ushered in 2018, our industry was busy responding to an industry-wide, hardware-based security vulnerability related to CPU data cache timing. We updated the Azure infrastructure to address this vulnerability at the hypervisor level. You can get more details about the steps taken to address this vulnerability here: Securing Azure ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac Version 7.4 Preview

January 12, 2018 Jan 12, 2018 01/12/18

App Center Team

We’re excited to start the new year off with great updates to the Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview for both Windows and Mac, and we hope that you will install and use it, and then tell us what you think. If you’re on a Windows machine, you can either install it from here or, if you already have it installed, click on the notification you’...

Azure #CosmosDB: Recap of 2017

January 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018 01/10/18

App Center Team

In May, we were super excited to announce the general availability of Azure Cosmos DB – Microsoft’s globally distributed, massively scalable, multi-model database service. It is the first globally-distributed data service that lets you elastically scale throughput and store across any number of geographical regions while guaranteeing low ...

Designing, building, and operating microservices on Azure (Guidance)

January 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018 01/10/18

App Center Team

I'm excited to announce that the AzureCAT patterns and practices team has published new guidance about microservices titled Designing, building, and operating microservices on Azure. Microservices have become a popular architectural style for building cloud applications that are resilient, highly scalable, and able to evolve quickly. To be ...

Hi, We’re Visual Studio App Center Build

January 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018 01/10/18

App Center Team

At Microsoft, we strive to deliver the best developer tools on the planet in order to help make all developers more productive. With Visual Studio App Center, you can easily automate your DevOps lifecycle to continuously build, test, release, and monitor your apps on every platform, so you have more time to focus on your users and their ...

Securing Azure customers from CPU vulnerability

January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18

App Center Team

An industry-wide, hardware-based security vulnerability was disclosed today. Keeping customers secure is always our top priority and we are taking active steps to ensure that no Azure customer is exposed to these vulnerabilities. At the time of this blog post, Microsoft has not received any information to indicate that these vulnerabilities ...

Top 12 Visual Studio App Center Tips and Tricks of 2017

January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18

App Center Team

2017 was a big year for us and Visual Studio App Center, from announcing our General Availability to expanding to even more platforms and services. We’re excited for an amazing 2018, as we help you, and app developers everywhere, build better apps. Our goal is to create an amazing developer experience, so you can stay 100% focused on ...