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Adding support for Debug Adapters to Visual Studio IDE

April 13, 2018 Apr 13, 2018 04/13/18
App Center Team
Since its release, Visual Studio Code’s extension model, based on well-known web technologies such as TypeScript and JSON, has attracted a great deal of participation from the community, with hundreds of extensions published to provide support for exciting new languages and technologies. Visual Studio 2017 took the first steps towards ...

What’s new in VSTS Sprint 131 Update

April 13, 2018 Apr 13, 2018 04/13/18
App Center Team
The Sprint 131 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts and includes several features that were prioritized and influenced by feedback over the last several months. The Work Items hub, which is now generally available, brings important work together into a new hub with several views for items you’re ...

Explore CosmosDB with .NET Core and MongoDB

April 13, 2018 Apr 13, 2018 04/13/18
App Center Team
Have you had to design general purpose “metadata” tables in your SQL database that basically store column names and values? Do you often serialize/de-serialize XML or JSON from your SQL tables to handle volatile schemas and data? .NET developers have traditionally worked with relational database management systems (RDMS) like SQL Server. ...

Announcement: Publish markdown files from your git repository to VSTS Wiki

April 13, 2018 Apr 13, 2018 04/13/18
App Center Team
This feature will be available in VSTS after the deployment of the Sprint 132 update is completed. Now you can publish markdown files from a git repository to the VSTS Wiki. Developers often write SDK documents, product documentation, or README files explaining a product in a git repository. Such pages are often updated alongside code in the ...

Training State-of-the-Art Neural Networks in the Microsoft Azure Cloud

April 11, 2018 Apr 11, 2018 04/11/18
App Center Team
This is the third post in a three-part series by guest blogger, Adrian Rosebrock. Adrian writes at PyImageSearch.com about computer vision and deep learning using Python. He recently finished authoring a new book on deep learning for computer vision and image recognition. Introduction In the final part in this series, I want to address a ...

ASP.NET Core manageability and Application Insights improvements

April 11, 2018 Apr 11, 2018 04/11/18
App Center Team
There are many great investments on the ASP.NET Core 2.1 roadmap. These investments make ASP.NET Core applications easier to write, host, test, and make security and standards compliant. This blog post talks about areas of investments in manageability and monitoring space. It covers ASP.NET Core, .NET, and Application Insights SDK ...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 3 now available

April 11, 2018 Apr 11, 2018 04/11/18
App Center Team
Today we released the third preview of the next update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. The top highlights of this Preview include: •Updates to Universal Windows Platform development •C++ development improvements •Significant updates in Xamarin and .NET Mobile Development •Ability to configure installation locations •Debugger ...

Calling all Desktop Developers: how should UI development be improved?

April 11, 2018 Apr 11, 2018 04/11/18
App Center Team
The user interface (UI) of any application is critical in making your app convenient and efficient for the folks using it. When developing applications for Enterprise use, a good UI can shave time off an entire company’s workflow. Visual Studio is investing in new tools to improve the productivity of Windows desktop developers and we’d ...

VSTS Deployment Groups is now generally available: sharing of targets and more

April 11, 2018 Apr 11, 2018 04/11/18
App Center Team
We are excited to announce that Deployment Groups is out of preview and is now generally available. Deployment Groups is a robust out-of-the-box multi-machine deployment feature of Release Management in VSTS/TFS. What are Deployment Groups? With Deployment Groups, you can orchestrate deployments across multiple servers and perform rolling ...