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Hi, We’re Visual Studio App Center Build

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

App Center Team

At Microsoft, we strive to deliver the best developer tools on the planet in order to help make all developers more productive. With Visual Studio App Center, you can easily automate your DevOps lifecycle to continuously build, test, release, and monitor your apps on every platform, so you have more time to focus on your users and their ...

Securing Azure customers from CPU vulnerability

January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18

App Center Team

An industry-wide, hardware-based security vulnerability was disclosed today. Keeping customers secure is always our top priority and we are taking active steps to ensure that no Azure customer is exposed to these vulnerabilities. At the time of this blog post, Microsoft has not received any information to indicate that these vulnerabilities ...

Top 12 Visual Studio App Center Tips and Tricks of 2017

January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18

App Center Team

2017 was a big year for us and Visual Studio App Center, from announcing our General Availability to expanding to even more platforms and services. We’re excited for an amazing 2018, as we help you, and app developers everywhere, build better apps. Our goal is to create an amazing developer experience, so you can stay 100% focused on ...

Visual Studio ALM/DevOps VM 2017 (Winter Update) is now available

January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18

App Center Team

I am excited to announce that the ALM VM updated to Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 (15.5) and Team Foundation Server 2018 is now available. Key highlights of the version: - Updated to Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 (15.5) and Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2018 - We have got back Standard edition of SQL Server and ...

4 tips for keeping your resolution to learn Azure

January 3, 2018 Jan 3, 2018 01/3/18

App Center Team

It's that time of year when many people take pride in the resolutions they met, lament the ones they failed to keep, and make new ones to start afresh. Recently, I spoke with a friend and former colleague who is a software developer at a technology company in Virginia. As we shared our plans for 2018, he told me about an unmet resolution he ...

Join on-demand recasts of Azure Cosmos DB and Azure SQL Database webinars!

January 3, 2018 Jan 3, 2018 01/3/18

App Center Team

In case you missed them, we’ve posted the Azure Cosmos Database and Azure SQL Database webinars for on-demand viewing. The first webinar takes a closer look at Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed, multi-model database service that enables scaled throughput and storage across many geographical regions. The second webinar shares how you ...

Top stories from the VSTS community

January 3, 2018 Jan 3, 2018 01/3/18

App Center Team

Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES My Top 5 Blog Posts of 2017 – Mike Douglas 2017 was an exciting year full of DevOps and Azure projects, learning, and sharing. Planning, Scheduling and Executing – A Deeper Look [Part 1] – David Corbin Results ...