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Sep 11, 2018
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Introducing Azure DevOps, an evolution of VSTS for modern developers and Enterprise customers

Shikha Kaul

Today we are announcing Azure DevOps. Working with our customers and developers around the world, it’s clear DevOps has become increasingly critical to a team’s success. Azure DevOps captures over 15 years of investment and learnings in providing tools to support software development teams. In the last month, over 80,000 internal Microsoft users an...

Sep 11, 2018
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Announcing Azure Pipelines, a new fully managed CI/CD service with unlimite minutes FREE for open source projects

Shikha Kaul

With the introduction of Azure DevOps today, we’re offering developers a new CI/CD service called Azure Pipelines that enables you to continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform or cloud. It has cloud-hosted agents for Linux, macOS, and Windows, powerful workflows with native container support, and flexible deployments to Kubernetes, VMs, ...

Sep 7, 2018
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Improving your productivity in the Visual Studio Editor

Shikha Kaul

Over the last few updates to Visual Studio 2017, we’ve been hard at work adding new features to boost your productivity while you’re writing code. Many of these are the result of your direct feedback coming from the UserVoice requests, Developer Community tickets, and direct feedback we’ve encountered while talking to developers like you.

Sep 7, 2018
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Managing User Secrets

Shikha Kaul

In this episode, Robert is joined by Andrew Cheung and Alicia Chan, who show how Visual Studio can help you stop storing sensitive data like connection strings and other user secrets in your code. They show how to store secrets locally in json or XML files and how to store them in Azure Key Vault.

Sep 7, 2018
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Introduction to Azure Durable Functions

Shikha Kaul

Azure Durable Functions is a new programming model based on Microsoft serverless’ platform Azure Functions. It allows you to write a workflow as code and have the execution run with the scalability and the reliability of serverless with high throughput.

Sep 7, 2018
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Discover the world of .NET at the .NET Conf

Shikha Kaul

.NET Conf is a FREE, 3 day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. Over the course of the three days you have a wide selection of live sessions streaming here that feature speakers from the community and .NET product teams. It's a chance to learn, ask questions live, and get inspired for your next software project.

Sep 7, 2018
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Azure.Source – Volume 47

Shikha Kaul

Now generally available Announcing general availability of Azure IoT Hub’s integration with Azure Event Grid - IoT Hub integration with Azure Event Grid is now generally available, making it even easier to transform business insights from billions of devices sending their data to the cloud into actions by simplifying the architecture of IoT solutio...

Sep 5, 2018
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Monitoring environmental conditions near underwater datacenters using Deep Learning

Shikha Kaul

At Microsoft, we put our cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the hands of those working to solve global environmental challenges, through programs such as AI for Earth. We also use these same tools to understand our own interaction with the environment, such as the work being done in concert with Project Natick.

Sep 5, 2018
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Using the New Xamarin.Forms Controls Toolbox

Shikha Kaul

Xamarin.Forms empowers you to deliver the same experience to multiple platforms. Using a set of UI elements abstracted from common mobile app controls, like text inputs and buttons, you can quickly create a functional cross-platform UI. Xamarin.Forms compiles these generic controls down to the platform-specific version, maintaining the native look ...