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Oct 31, 2018
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Visual Studio App Center: A New But Familiar Upgrade for HockeyApp Customers

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 somehow related to ...

Oct 26, 2018
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Xamarin.Forms 3.3.0: Little Things, Huge Difference

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 features and fix...

Oct 26, 2018
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Announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3

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.

Oct 26, 2018
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Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.2 Preview 3

Shikha Kaul

Today we are making EF Core 2.2 Preview 3 available, together with a new preview of our data provider for Cosmos DB and updated spatial extensions for various providers.

Oct 26, 2018
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Announcing TypeScript 3.1

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. Additiona...

Oct 26, 2018
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Azure.Source – Volume 54

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 month...

Oct 24, 2018
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ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview3 now available

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 shape the relea...

Oct 24, 2018
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Simplify extension development with PackageReference and the VSSDK meta package

Shikha Kaul

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 made it possible to use the PackageReference syntax to reference NuGet packages in Visual Studio Extensibility (VSIX) projects. This makes it much simpler to reason about NuGet packages and opens the door for having a complete meta package containing the entire VSSDK.

Oct 24, 2018
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Standard Library Algorithms: Changes and Additions in C++17

Shikha Kaul

The C++14 standard already contains a wealth of different kinds of algorithms. C++17 adds a couple more algorithms and updates some existing ones. This article explains what’s new and what has changed in the C++17 Standard Library.