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The RyuJIT transition is complete! (.NET)

June 23, 2018 Jun 23, 2018 06/23/18
App Center Team
RyuJIT is the code name for the .NET just-in-time compiler, one of the foundational components of the .NET runtime. In contrast, the Roslyn C# compiler compiles C# code to IL byte code. The RyuJIT compiler compiles IL byte code to machine code for multiple processors. With the recent merge of the dotnet/coreclr #18064 pull request, the ...

AI Lab: Learn to Code with the Cutting-Edge Microsoft AI Platform

June 23, 2018 Jun 23, 2018 06/23/18
App Center Team
Among our exciting announcements at //Build, one of the things I was thrilled to launch is the AI Lab – a collection of AI projects designed to help developers explore, experience, learn about and code with the latest Microsoft AI Platform technologies. What is AI Lab? AI Lab helps our large fast-growing community of developers get started...

Staying up-to-date with .NET Container Images

June 23, 2018 Jun 23, 2018 06/23/18
App Center Team
This post describes the container images that we produce and update for you, that you can use with Docker, Kubernetes and other systems. When you are using .NET and Docker together, you are probably using the official .NET container images from Microsoft. We’ve made many improvements over the last year to the .NET images that make it easier ...

New Navigation for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

June 23, 2018 Jun 23, 2018 06/23/18
App Center Team
I’m excited to share the new navigation we’re working on for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to modernize the user experience and give you more flexibility. As Lori mentioned in her blog post, our goal to create an integrated suite that also gives the flexibly to pick and choose the services that work best for you. That goal is a common...

Container Tooling for Service Fabric in Visual Studio 2017

June 23, 2018 Jun 23, 2018 06/23/18
App Center Team
The latest version of the Service Fabric tools, which is part of Visual Studio 2017 Update 7 (15.7), includes the new container tooling for Service Fabric feature. This new feature makes debugging and deploying existing applications, in containers, on Service Fabric easier than ever before. You can now take an existing console or ASP.NET ...

Azure.Source – Volume 36

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18
App Center Team
Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management in public preview - Both Blob-Level Tiering and Archive Storage help you optimize storage performance and cost. Blob-Level Tiering enables you to transition blobs between the Hot, Cool, and Archive tiers without moving data between accounts. In response to customer feedback, you can now automate blob ...

Getting Started with Microsoft’s Python Developer Tools

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18
App Center Team
Microsoft’s teams have been working over the last few years to bring Python developer tools to the Azure cloud and our most popular developer tools: Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Python is one of the fastest growing languages, with both beginner and expert developers taking to it. What makes it attractive is its easy-to-learn ...

Queries Hub Updates Generally Available

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18
App Center Team
The New Queries Hub streamlines many of the existing features from the old hub and provides new capabilities to make it easier to get to the queries that are important to you. It is now generally available for VSTS customers and coming to TFS in the next major version...

Windows Template Studio 2.2 released!

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18
App Center Team
We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 2.2! For the next few releases, we are doing smaller updates to add in new pages and fixes. The reason being is we are working toward multi-project solution support for 3.0 and adjusting our templates to support that. This is a large sum of work but want to be sure we are ...

Using .NET and Docker Together – DockerCon 2018 Update

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18
App Center Team
I posted about Using .NET and Docker Together last year. With DockerCon 2018 being this week, it seemed like a great time to give you an update. Since my last post, we’ve enabled a set of Docker workflows with guidance and samples for .NET Core and .NET Framework, for development, CI/CD, and production. We also offer many more images for ...