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Aug 22, 2018
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Make your Visual Studio Team Services dashboard part of your conversation in Microsoft Teams

John Powell

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Dashboards help keep track of your project and drive collaboration with your team. Starting today, you can bring your VSTS dashboards right where the conversation is happening in Microsoft Teams (MS Teams). MS Teams is Microsoft’s chat and collaboration platform.

Aug 17, 2018
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Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 now available

John Powell

Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. In this version we have focused on productivity, performance and bug fixes. There are many new features you‘ll find useful, but in this post, I’ll underscore the highlights you may be most interested in. For the complete list of all the updates in today’s release, check out the Visual Studio 2...

Aug 17, 2018
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What is Artificial Intelligence?

John Powell

It has been said that Artificial Intelligence will define the next generation of software solutions. If you are even remotely involved with technology, you will almost certainly have heard the term with increasing regularity over the last few years.

Aug 17, 2018
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Catch up on what’s new in Azure: Azure.Source – Volume 44

John Powell

Announcing the public preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service - Windows Server Containers in Web App are now available in public preview. Azure App Service provides pre-defined application stacks on Windows like ASP.NET or Node.js, running on IIS. The preconfigured Windows environment locks down the operating system from administr...

Aug 16, 2018
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Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v4.0

John Powell

The Windows Community Toolkit recently reached over 1 million downloads across all nuget packages. This is a very big milestone for the community and I’m very excited to announce yet another major update to the Windows Community Toolkit, version 4.0. With the help of the Windows community, this update introduces several new additions and improvemen...

Aug 15, 2018
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Are your Windows Forms and WPF applications ready for .NET Core 3.0?

John Powell

At Build 2018 we announced that we are enabling Windows desktop applications (Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Framework (WPF)) with .NET Core 3.0. You will be able to run new and existing Windows desktop applications on .NET Core and enjoy all the benefits that .NET Core has to offer, such as application-local deployment and improved perform...

Aug 15, 2018
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Microsoft Ignite – now with more code

John Powell

Microsoft Ignite is known as the place for technologists to build new skills, expand proficiencies, evaluate new tools, and network with the community. This year, we’re adding even more developer-focused content than ever before by going deep on popular and emerging developer technologies. But don’t just take my word for it, hear what Scott Hanselm...

Aug 15, 2018
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Announcing ML.NET 0.4

John Powell

A few months ago we released ML.NET 0.1 at //Build 2018., ML.NET is a cross-platform, open source machine learning framework for .NET developers. We’ve gotten great feedback so far and would like to thank the community for your engagement as we continue to develop ML.NET together in the open.