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April 2018 - Visual Studio news feed

New Microsoft Azure regions available for Australia and New Zealand

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18
App Center Team
Two new Microsoft Azure regions in Australia are available to customers, making Microsoft the only global provider to deliver cloud services specifically designed to address the requirements of the Australian and New Zealand governments and critical national infrastructure, including banks, utilities, transport and telecommunications. We ...

Azure.Source – Volume 28

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18
App Center Team
Last week, we made several Azure Security announcements in conjunction with RSA Conference 2018 in San Francisco: •Introducing Microsoft Azure Sphere: Secure and power the intelligent edge - Microsoft Azure Sphere is a new solution for creating highly-secured, Internet-connected microcontroller (MCU) devices. Azure Sphere includes three ...

Essential tools and services for building mobile apps

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18
App Center Team
This blog post was co-authored by Rajen Kishna, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure Marketing – App Development. Azure, Visual Studio, Xamarin, and Visual Studio App Center give you the flexible, yet robust tools and services to build, test, deploy, and continuously improve Android and iOS apps that your users will love. Use your ...

New Xamarin.Forms XAML IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2017

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18
App Center Team
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 previews are now available, featuring significant improvements to the XAML experience for mobile developers. The Xamarin.Forms XAML editing experience is now powered by the same IntelliSense engine that powers WPF and UWP. This brings several enhancements to developers, including improved matching, binding/...

vcpkg is now cross platform and support Linux MacOS and Windows

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18
App Center Team
At Microsoft, the core of our vision is “Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform” and we are committed to bringing you the most productive development tools and services to build your apps across all platforms. With this in mind, we are thrilled to announce today the availability of vcpkg on Linux and MacOS. This gives you immediate access to...

Xamarin Joins docs.microsoft.com

April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18
App Center Team
Today we’re beginning a new chapter in mobile developer documentation: Xamarin docs are now live on docs.microsoft.com/xamarin! Here are a few highlights of the new documentation experience: Xamarin Docs Hub All our documentation options are a click or two away from docs.microsoft.com/xamarin. Click Xamarin in the header to return there ...

App Center Errors: Monitoring and Keeping Your Xamarin Apps Healthy

April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18
App Center Team
Building and shipping a successful app is a challenge. Monitoring and keeping your app healthy is even more challenging and time-consuming. Once you ship your app into the wild, unexpected errors often occur as real users start engaging with it; staying on top of them is crucial to the success of your app and business. As a developer, you ...

Announcing CodeLens for C++ Unit Testing

April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18
App Center Team
C++ developers in Visual Studio can now get their first taste of CodeLens! Specifically, Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Preview 3 Professional and Enterprise editions offer CodeLens for Unit Testing. There are a few ways to initialize CodeLens: •Edit and Build your test project/solution •Rebuild your project/solution •Run test(s) from the Test...