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Confidently plan your cloud migration: Azure Migrate is now generally available

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

App Center Team

A few months ago, we announced Azure Migrate – a new service that provides guidance and insights to help you migrate to Azure. Today, we're excited to announce that Azure Migrate is generally available. Azure Migrate is offered at no additional charge and provides appliance-based, agentless discovery of your on-premises environments. It ...

Students: Get career-ready with Azure for Students

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

App Center Team

Today, we’re excited to announce Azure for Students. Designed uniquely with student-focused cloud usage in-mind, this offer gives verified students full access to 25+ free Azure products as well as US$100 monetary credit for use toward our paid products with no credit card requirement. If you’re seeking to grow your cloud dev skills – ...

Announcing new milestones for Microsoft Cognitive Services vision and search services in Azure

March 9, 2018 Mar 9, 2018 03/9/18

App Center Team

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces behind the digital transformation of business. At Microsoft, we believe everyone—developers, data scientists and enterprises—should have access to the benefits of AI to augment human ingenuity in unique and differentiated ways. We’ve been conducting research in...

Deploying WordPress application using VSTS and Azure – part one

March 9, 2018 Mar 9, 2018 03/9/18

App Center Team

This post is the first part of two blog posts, describing how to setup a CI/CD pipeline using VSTS for deploying a dockerized custom WordPress website working with Azure WebApp for Containers and Azure Database for MySQL. The Motivation The main motivation for building a WordPress CI/CD pipeline is the fact that WordPress is limited in ...

Get started with Azure Cosmos DB through this technical training series

March 9, 2018 Mar 9, 2018 03/9/18

App Center Team

Are you building a new application which requires low latency at any scale? Or are you in the process of migrating your NoSQL databases to the cloud? Or looking for the right resources to help you get started with Azure Cosmos DB? Join us for one or all of a seven-week Azure Cosmos DB technical training series, which explores the capabilities...

How (and Why) We Built Our New Visual Studio App Center Tester Apps: Preview Now Available!

March 9, 2018 Mar 9, 2018 03/9/18

App Center Team

We’re excited to announce that HockeyApp for App Center, our native iOS and Android apps, are now available! HockeyApp for App Center brings the functionality of the App Center install website to a native app experience, making it even easier for you and your beta testers to get the latest and greatest builds as soon as they’re available. ...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, Visual Studio for Mac version 7.4 Released

March 7, 2018 Mar 7, 2018 03/7/18

App Center Team

Today, we released updates to both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac. Start your download now while you browse the rest of this post: download Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 or Visual Studio for Mac. We’ll trigger the update notification flag in the tools in the coming days. Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 I’ll highlight some...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 Preview 1

March 7, 2018 Mar 7, 2018 03/7/18

App Center Team

Today we are releasing the first preview of EF Core 2.1, alongside .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 1. The new bits are available in NuGet as part of the individual packages, and as part of the ASP.NET Core meta-packages (both Microsoft.AspNetCore.All and the new Microsoft.AspNetCore.App), and included in the .NET Core SDK...