The Visual Studio Mobile Developer Podcast features Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno discussing the latest and greatest in mobile and cloud development.
Programs nowadays often need to download files and data from the internet – maybe they need new content, new configurations, or the latest updates. The Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is an easy way for programs to ask Windows to download files from or upload files to a remote HTTP or SMB file server. BITS will handle problem...
What we’ve heard and experienced ourselves is that when building applications, you have a frictionless experience when your code editor and tools are integrated and seamless. Yet when developing IoT apps, you often need to manage connected devices and send test messages between the device and IoT Hub at the same time that you’re debugging and worki...
Windows Desktop applications are coming to .NET Core. The recently released .NET Core 3.0 Preview 1 version includes WinForms and WPF support. To make .NET Core 3.0 viable for as many of you as possible, we have created a survey to understand the types of desktop applications you want to build with .NET Core. Based on the information you provide, ...
Xamarin.Forms is a favored toolkit for cross-platform developers who love XAML and C#, because it maximizes code sharing while also providing full access to all the native platform APIs and UI controls. This capability comprises technologies and concepts that can be both exhilarating and confusing when you’re getting started. The truth is that some...
In the world of mobile development, the ability to send targeted push notifications is one of the tools available to developers to help connect with users. In games, a well-timed push notification can deepen player engagement and increase daily active sessions. Adding and supporting push notifications has become so common that it could be considere...
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core January 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes.
ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework (Windows, Linux, macOS) for .NET developers. Using ML.NET, developers can leverage their existing tools and skillsets to develop and infuse custom AI into their applications by creating custom machine learning models.
Azure Tips and Tricks (azuredev.tips) is a series that I created a year ago where I document my favorite secrets, shortcuts and handy features using Azure. I quickly came to appreciate the value of short and straight-to-the-point guidance for common scenarios that developers face every day. Over the last year I’ve gone from just a few posts to more...
At the Ignite conference, we announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, a new storage architecture providing a SQL-based and highly scalable service tier for databases that adapts on-demand to your workload’s needs. With Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, databases can quickly auto-scale up to 100TB, eliminating the need to pre-prov...
