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Visual Studio for Mac as the default editor for Unity

January 17, 2018 Jan 17, 2018 01/17/18

App Center Team

Unity is a powerful solution to create games for a multitude of platforms, from mobiles to consoles, desktop and web games. Since Unity 5.2, Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Tools for Unity have been the default experience on Windows. When we released Visual Studio for Mac last year, Unity was among the first scenarios we supported out of ...

.NET Core January 2018 Update

January 17, 2018 Jan 17, 2018 01/17/18

App Center Team

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core January 2018 Update. This includes .NET Core 1.0.9, 1.1.6 and 2.0.5. Please leave feedback on the release in the comments below or at dotnet/core #1199...

Last week in Azure: Securing Azure infrastructure from CPU vulnerability, and more

January 17, 2018 Jan 17, 2018 01/17/18

App Center Team

As we ushered in 2018, our industry was busy responding to an industry-wide, hardware-based security vulnerability related to CPU data cache timing. We updated the Azure infrastructure to address this vulnerability at the hypervisor level. You can get more details about the steps taken to address this vulnerability here: Securing Azure ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac Version 7.4 Preview

January 12, 2018 Jan 12, 2018 01/12/18

App Center Team

We’re excited to start the new year off with great updates to the Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview for both Windows and Mac, and we hope that you will install and use it, and then tell us what you think. If you’re on a Windows machine, you can either install it from here or, if you already have it installed, click on the notification you’...

Azure #CosmosDB: Recap of 2017

January 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018 01/10/18

App Center Team

In May, we were super excited to announce the general availability of Azure Cosmos DB – Microsoft’s globally distributed, massively scalable, multi-model database service. It is the first globally-distributed data service that lets you elastically scale throughput and store across any number of geographical regions while guaranteeing low ...

Designing, building, and operating microservices on Azure (Guidance)

January 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018 01/10/18

App Center Team

I'm excited to announce that the AzureCAT patterns and practices team has published new guidance about microservices titled Designing, building, and operating microservices on Azure. Microservices have become a popular architectural style for building cloud applications that are resilient, highly scalable, and able to evolve quickly. To be ...