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Visual Studio App Center Levels Up with Unity Support

October 31, 2018 Oct 31, 2018 10/31/18
Shikha Kaul
Unity is one of the most popular and recognized game development platforms on the market to date. Microsoft has had a long-standing partnership with Unity, with Visual Studio Tools for Unity being the default installed editor experience for Unity developers around the world. Continuing in our quest to make mobile developers more productive, ...

ASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0 Preview 2

October 31, 2018 Oct 31, 2018 10/31/18
Shikha Kaul
We’ve just released the second preview of the upcoming 2.4.0 release of ASP.NET SignalR. As we mentioned in our previous blog post on the future of ASP.NET SignalR we are releasing a minor update to ASP.NET SignalR (the version of SignalR for System.Web and/or OWIN-based applications) that includes, support for the Azure SignalR Service, as ...

ExpressRoute for Azure DevOps

October 31, 2018 Oct 31, 2018 10/31/18
Shikha Kaul
Today we are excited to announce that Azure DevOps is now available over Azure ExpressRoute. Customers who typically operate in the government and financial services sectors have requested this support because they want private connections that don’t go over the public Internet for security reasons. ExpressRoute also typically offers them ...

.NET Core Source Code Analysis with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier

October 31, 2018 Oct 31, 2018 10/31/18
Shikha Kaul
Last year in the .NET blog, we discussed .NET Core Performance Profiling with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier 2018 including profiling Just-In-Time (JIT) compiled .NET Core code on Microsoft Windows* and Linux* operating systems. This year Intel VTune™ Amplifier 2019 was launched on September 12th, 2018 with improved source code analysis for .NET...

Visual Studio App Center: A New But Familiar Upgrade for HockeyApp Customers

October 31, 2018 Oct 31, 2018 10/31/18
Shikha Kaul
You’re a HockeyApp user and you’re using the service for beta distribution, crash reporting, and analytics for your Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows apps. You may also use the service’s powerful workflow integrations to help you better make better apps. It’s likely you’ve also heard of Visual Studio App Center and know that it’s ...

Xamarin.Forms 3.3.0: Little Things, Huge Difference

October 26, 2018 Oct 26, 2018 10/26/18
Shikha Kaul
The Xamarin.Forms team has been working closely with our open-source community to help fill in the “little things”. Things you’ve told us are important to building your mobile apps and being supremely productive in the process. Since Xamarin.Forms 3.0 shipped at Build 2018, we have been collaborating with you to deliver over 20 new ...

Announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3

October 26, 2018 Oct 26, 2018 10/26/18
Shikha Kaul
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3. We have made more improvements to the overall release that we would love to get your feedback on, either in the comments or at dotnet/core #2004...

Announcing TypeScript 3.1

October 26, 2018 Oct 26, 2018 10/26/18
Shikha Kaul
If you haven’t heard of TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on top of modern JavaScript and adds static type-checking. When you write TypeScript code, you can use a tool like the TypeScript compiler to remove type-specific constructs, and rewrite any newer ECMAScript code to something that older browsers & runtimes can understand. ...

Azure.Source – Volume 54

October 26, 2018 Oct 26, 2018 10/26/18
Shikha Kaul
Announcing the public preview of Azure Digital Twins - Azure Digital Twins is an Azure IoT service that creates comprehensive models of the physical environment. Among its many features is the ability to create spatial intelligence graphs to model the relationships and interactions between people, spaces, and devices. Announced at Ignite last ...