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A new experiment: Browser-based web apps with .NET and Blazor

February 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018 02/14/18

App Center Team

Today I’m excited to announce a new experimental project from the ASP.NET team called Blazor. Blazor is an experimental web UI framework based on C#, Razor, and HTML that runs in the browser via WebAssembly. Blazor promises to greatly simplify the task of building fast and beautiful single-page applications that run in any browser. It does ...

Continuous Quality: Ship Better Apps Faster with Visual Studio App Center

February 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018 02/14/18

App Center Team

Think about one of your mobile apps... How often do you publish updates to it? A couple of times per year? Quarterly? Monthly, bi-weekly? Every day? Multiple times per day? No! That's crazy, right? Or is it? Some world-class app engineering teams are able to consistently release their apps weekly or every two weeks at high quality. How do ...

Bing Speech API extends its text to speech support to 34 languages

February 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018 02/14/18

App Center Team

Voice is becoming more and more prevalent as a mode of interaction with all kinds of devices and services. The ability to provide not only voice input but also voice output or Text-to-speech (TTS), is also becoming a critical technology that supports AI. Whether you need to interact on a device, over the phone, in a vehicle, through a building...

Last week in Azure: Event Grid GA, Ansible in Cloud Shell, and more

February 9, 2018 Feb 9, 2018 02/9/18

App Center Team

Last week in Azure, Azure Event Grid, a fully managed, scalable and flexible event routing service became generally available. Event Grid enables you to build reactive, event-driven apps with a fully managed event routing service using a publish-subscribe model to connect data sources and event handlers, automate operations, and integrate ...

Top stories from the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) community – 2018.02.02

February 9, 2018 Feb 9, 2018 02/9/18

App Center Team

Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES •Work can flow across the Sprint boundary – Martin Hinshelwood There is nothing in the Scrum Guide that says that you can’t have workflow across the Sprint boundary. I’m going to suggest that not only can you, ...

TFS 2018 Update 1 RC is available (Brian Harry)

February 9, 2018 Feb 9, 2018 02/9/18

App Center Team

Several years ago, for TFS, we adopted a cadence of a major release, followed by a couple of significant feature releases, followed by one or two releases which contained mostly bug fixes. The major releases were typically ~18 months apart and the minor releases varied from 3-5 months apart. We made some mistakes along the way but, overall, ...

Learn how to do Image Recognition with Cognitive Services and ASP.NETLearn how to do Image Recognition with Cognitive Services and ASP.NET

February 9, 2018 Feb 9, 2018 02/9/18

App Center Team

With all the talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) doing crazy things, it’s easy to be left wondering, “what are practical ways I can use this today?” It turns out there are some extremely easy ways to try this today. In this post, I’ll walk through how to detect faces, gender, ages, and hair color in ...

Entity Framework Core 2.1 Roadmap

February 7, 2018 Feb 7, 2018 02/7/18

App Center Team

As mentioned in the announcement of the .NET Core 2.1 roadmap earlier today, at this point we know the overall shape of our next release and we have decided on a general schedule for it. As we approach the release of our first preview later this month, we also wanted to expand on what we have planned for Entity Framework Core 2...