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ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview3 now available

October 24, 2018 Oct 24, 2018 10/24/18
Shikha Kaul
Today we’re very happy to announce that the third preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. We’ve been working hard on this release, along with many folks from the community, and it’s now ready for a wider audience to try it out and provide the feedback that will continue to ...

Protect your Xamarin.Android Apps at Runtime with Dotfuscator

October 24, 2018 Oct 24, 2018 10/24/18
Shikha Kaul
In a previous blog we discussed obfuscating your Xamarin application with Dotfuscator Community to protect it from reverse-engineering. That kind of protection is an important and necessary layer in your application’s security posture, but it shouldn’t be the only layer. The application also needs to react to threats at runtime in order to...

Automating Release Notes with Azure Functions

October 19, 2018 Oct 19, 2018 10/19/18
Shikha Kaul
We can all agree that tracking the progress of a project enhances productivity and is an effective way to keep everyone involved of its progress. When it comes to managing your project in Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) or GitHub, you have all of your artifacts in one place: code, CI/CD pipelines, releases, work items, and more. In cases where ...

What’s Next for Visual Studio for Mac

October 19, 2018 Oct 19, 2018 10/19/18
Shikha Kaul
Since it was released a little more than a year ago, Visual Studio 2017 for Mac has grown from being an IDE primarily focused on mobile application development using Xamarin to one that includes support for all major .NET cross-platform workloads including Xamarin, Unity, and .NET Core. Our aspiration with Visual Studio for Mac is to bring the...

Fluent XAML Theme Editor Preview released!

October 19, 2018 Oct 19, 2018 10/19/18
Shikha Kaul
As some of you may remember from our Build 2018 session this year, we previewed a tool using our new ColorPaletteResources API that allows you to set the color theme of your app through some simple color selections...

Visual Studio Roadmap Updates and Visual Studio 2019 Information

October 19, 2018 Oct 19, 2018 10/19/18
Shikha Kaul
Yesterday, we covered What’s next for Visual Studio for Mac, and today we’ve updated our Visual Studio Roadmap so you can see the latest news about what we’re working on. We’re particularly excited to share this update since it includes information about the first preview of Visual Studio 2019, which we will make available by the end ...