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Open for Feedback: Contribute Directly to Visual Studio App Center Product Documentation

March 21, 2018 Mar 21, 2018 03/21/18

App Center Team

To ensure Visual Studio App Center is as easy as possible to use, we've created a more direct feedback channel for building and publishing product documentation based on the great feedback we receive from you, our users. Open sourcing our product documentation is a natural extension of our App Center philosophy, which is open API, open source ...

Last week in Azure #23: Week of March 12

March 21, 2018 Mar 21, 2018 03/21/18

App Center Team

Last week in Azure, we were at the Rice Oil and Gas HPC conference showing how high-performance computing in the cloud is helping companies in that industry get more done. This week, we'll be at GDC 2018 showing game developers how Azure can handle the management of their gaming platforms so that they can focus on what they do best: make games...

Last Week in Azure #22: Week of March 5

March 16, 2018 Mar 16, 2018 03/16/18

App Center Team

Last week, it became even more evident that Azure is the best place for all of your applications and data with numerous announcements about investments that dramatically expand the choice and ROI of moving your SQL Server and open source applications to Azure. But these investments aren't just about Azure. They deliver deeper platform ...

Microsoft reaches a historic milestone, using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English

March 16, 2018 Mar 16, 2018 03/16/18

App Center Team

A team of Microsoft researchers said Wednesday that they believe they have created the first machine translation system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as a person. Researchers in the company’s Asia and U.S. labs said that their system achieved human parity on a ...

Visual Studio, Azure and friends at GDC 2018

March 16, 2018 Mar 16, 2018 03/16/18

App Center Team

Next week, the world’s largest professional game industry event kicks off in San Francisco: Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2018. We’re incredibly excited to engage with all developers at the event looking to join the growing community of more than half a million monthly active developers building great games with Visual Studio today. ...

VSTS for Mobile Development (Channel 9 Video)

March 14, 2018 Mar 14, 2018 03/14/18

App Center Team

In this episode, Donovan is joined by James Montemagno, who shows some cool extensions for Visual Studio Team Service for mobile pipelines. Resources: Blog Post GitHub VSTS marketplace...

New app usage monitoring capabilities in Application Insights

March 14, 2018 Mar 14, 2018 03/14/18

App Center Team

Our goal with Azure Monitoring tools is to provide full-stack monitoring for your applications. The top of this “stack” isn’t the client-side of your app, it’s your users themselves. Understanding user behavior is critical for making the right changes to your apps to drive the metrics your business cares about. Recent improvements to ...