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Introducing ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Developer Community

October 17, 2018 Oct 17, 2018 10/17/18
Shikha Kaul
Customer feedback is a critical input to help us improve Visual Studio. Up until two years ago, the Visual Studio customer feedback system left room for improvement - customers could use the "send a smile" feature in Visual Studio, but this would result in only coarse-grained feedback such as "I like this" or "I don't like this." The ...

Announcing ML.NET 0.6 (Machine Learning .NET)

October 17, 2018 Oct 17, 2018 10/17/18
Shikha Kaul
Today we're announcing our latest monthly release: ML.NET 0.6! ML.NET is a cross-platform, open source machine learning framework for .NET developers. We want to enable every .NET developer to train and use machine learning models in their applications and services. If you haven't tried ML.NET yet, here's how you can get started...

A fast, serverless, big data pipeline powered by a single Azure Function

October 17, 2018 Oct 17, 2018 10/17/18
Shikha Kaul
A single Azure function is all it took to fully implement an end-to-end, real-time, mission critical data pipeline. And it was done with a serverless architecture. Serverless architectures simplify the building, deployment, and management of cloud scale applications. Instead of worrying about data infrastructure like server procurement, ...

Upgrade Your App with Sentiment Analysis (Xamarin)

October 17, 2018 Oct 17, 2018 10/17/18
Shikha Kaul
Understanding the sentiment of an email or text message can be difficult. Someone may send a message, intending for it to be encouraging, but it may be accidentally interpreted as mean or condescending. Luckily, Microsoft's Text Analytics Service can help avoid any confusion...

Announcing ASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0 Preview 1

October 12, 2018 Oct 12, 2018 10/12/18
Shikha Kaul
We recently released the first 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 new 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, ...

Update on .NET Core 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.8

October 12, 2018 Oct 12, 2018 10/12/18
Shikha Kaul
In May, we announced .NET Core 3.0, the next major version of .NET Core that adds support for building desktop applications using WinForms, WPF, and Entity Framework 6. We also announced some exciting updates to .NET Framework which enable you to use the new modern controls from UWP in existing WinForms and WPF applications...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 3

October 12, 2018 Oct 12, 2018 10/12/18
Shikha Kaul
Today, we are releasing the third preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9. You can download it here and share your feedback with our engineering teams. This release includes ARM64 support in UWP apps as well as improvements to Xamarin and TypeScript. Continue reading below for an overview the fixes and new features. If you'd like to see the...

Testing Xamarin Applications with Visual Studio App Center

October 12, 2018 Oct 12, 2018 10/12/18
Shikha Kaul
Frequent testing of your software is a key to success. As mentioned in my previous article "Mobile CI/CD 101" it's not easy to cover an entire mobile application with just regular unit tests. Most mobile applications depend on the user interface and platform-specific features that make true Test-Driven Design (TDD) with solely unit tests ...