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May 2018 - Visual Studio news feed

Performance Improvements in .NET Core 2.1

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
App Center Team
Back before .NET Core 2.0 shipped, I wrote a post highlighting various performance improvements in .NET Core 2.0 when compared with .NET Core 1.1 and the .NET Framework. As .NET Core 2.1 is in its final stages of being released, I thought it would be a good time to have some fun and take a tour through some of the myriad of performance ...

Release Flow: How We Do Branching on the VSTS Team

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
App Center Team
Whenever I talk to somebody about Git and version control, one question always comes up: How do you do your branching at Microsoft? And there’s no one answer to this question. Although we’ve been moving everybody in the company into one engineering system, standardizing on Git hosted in Visual Studio Team Services, what we haven’t done...

OAuth 2.0 for Mixed Reality applications

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
App Center Team
We recently collaborated with Aveva, an industrial design and management software company. The goal for Aveva was to improve its remote rendering service and extend this technology to support an ever-growing list of platforms and devices including HoloLens. As a result of our collaboration, we built 3DToolkit, a toolkit for creating powerful ...

New Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS Project Templates Now Available

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
App Center Team
Whether you’re new or a seasoned Xamarin developer, project templates are an important part of the app building journey. They should be easy to find and set you up for success from the start. As such, we’ve updated our Xamarin.Forms project templates in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 to include .NET Standard support and customization ...

Blazor 0.2.0 release now available – new experimental web UI framework

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
App Center Team
Just a few weeks ago we announced the first preview release of an experimental web UI framework called Blazor. Blazor enables full-stack web development using C# and WebAssembly. So far thousands of web developers have taken on the challenge to try out Blazor and done some pretty remarkable things: •Started using Blazor to build RealWorld ...

Visual Studio 2017 roadmap now available

May 25, 2018 May 25, 2018 05/25/18
App Center Team
With the release of Visual Studio 2017, we moved to a release schedule that delivers new features and fixes to you faster. With this faster iteration, we heard you would like more visibility into what’s coming. So, we’ve now published the Visual Studio Roadmap. The roadmap lists some of the more notable upcoming features and improvements ...

Azure SQL Database – the database engine that cannot die

May 25, 2018 May 25, 2018 05/25/18
App Center Team
Azure SQL Database is highly available database Platform as a Service that guarantees that your database will be up and running 99.99% of time, without worrying about maintenance and downtimes. This is a fully managed SQL Server Database Engine process hosted in Azure cloud that ensures that your SQL Server database is always upgraded/patched ...

App Center: API-First CI/CD for iOS and Android App Development

May 25, 2018 May 25, 2018 05/25/18
App Center Team
It’s common for developers to use Visual Studio App Center alongside all the tools they love and rely on, and respecting those preferences and investments is central to the way we design and think about App Center. We hope to put the power to extend and flex your workflow back in your hands by exposing as much as possible through our public ...