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.NET Framework February 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

February 21, 2018 Feb 21, 2018 02/21/18
App Center Team
Today, we are releasing the February 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security No new security fixes. See .NET Framework January 2018 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. It includes the same quality improvements that ...

Machine Learning in .NET – Help us build the right experience!

February 21, 2018 Feb 21, 2018 02/21/18
App Center Team
In the past few years, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have paved the road for building smarter applications through advancements in speech recognition, computer vision, intelligent search and much more. So far the ability to build models has largely been limited to data scientists, as a part of the .NET platform moving ...

C++ Core Check in Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2

February 21, 2018 Feb 21, 2018 02/21/18
App Center Team
Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2 includes a set of updates to the C++ Core Guidelines Check extension. We added more checks to help with the effort of making code cleaner, more secure and maintainable. This document is a quick overview of the new rules. More detailed information about these rules as well as an updated list of available rules ...

Vcpkg: Introducing the upgrade command (C++ team blog)

February 21, 2018 Feb 21, 2018 02/21/18
App Center Team
We recently added a new option to vcpkg (i.e. vcpkg contact –survey) to provide a direct way to share your feedback with the Vcpkg team. A big thank you to those of you that shared your thoughts and suggestions with the team through this new channel. The new upgrade command we’re introducing today is a result of your direct feedback. This...

Accessing Visual Studio Previews in Azure

February 16, 2018 Feb 16, 2018 02/16/18
App Center Team
In our most recent post, the Visual Studio team announced the availability of Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 4. Today, I’m excited to announce you can now access the latest Visual Studio previews in the Azure Marketplace. Just boot a virtual machine and off you go with the very latest features (standard VM charges will still apply...

Announcing the Bing Maps Fleet Tracker Solution

February 16, 2018 Feb 16, 2018 02/16/18
App Center Team
The Bing Maps team is pleased to announce the availability of our complete asset tracking solution for small fleets. The solution was previewed in September at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando and is now available for download and customization. The Bing Maps Fleet Tracker solution includes the Azure based backend of services and storage, a web ...

Go serverless for your IoT needs

February 16, 2018 Feb 16, 2018 02/16/18
App Center Team
If you are building an IoT solution in the cloud, chances are your focus is on the devices and what you can accomplish with them. You might want to process data coming from a network of devices in real time, analyze the data to gain insights, get alerted for special conditions, manage the devices themselves, and so on. What is less interesting...

C++ Static Analysis Improvements for Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2

February 16, 2018 Feb 16, 2018 02/16/18
App Center Team
We’ve made a few changes to the C++ static analysis feature that should make it faster and easier to use. The behavior has changed slightly, and the menus have been moved around a bit, but we think that the new experience is faster and more consistent. Let’s take a quick look at the changes. Single File Analysis Developers tend to focus ...

Spectre mitigations in MSVC (C++ team blog)

February 16, 2018 Feb 16, 2018 02/16/18
App Center Team
Microsoft is aware of a new publicly disclosed class of vulnerabilities, called “speculative execution side-channel attacks,” that affect many operating systems and modern processors, including processors from Intel, AMD, and ARM. On the MSVC team, we’ve reviewed information in detail and conducted extensive tests, which showed the ...

#ifdef WINDOWS – Progressive Web Apps

February 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018 02/14/18
App Center Team
Jeff Burtoft from the Web Apps team at Microsoft dropped by to share how web apps on Windows have evolved, all the way from regular web sites, to packaged web apps in Windows 8, Hosted Web Apps in Windows 10, and finally adopting Progressive Web Apps with support for Service Workers and native APIs. We also covered the top 3 necessary ...