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Apr 11, 2019
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Getting Started With WorkManager (Xamarin)

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

If you need to schedule a background task on Android, you’re probably familiar with all of the various ways to accomplish this such as:

Apr 11, 2019
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Introducing the App Service Migration Assistant for ASP.NET applications

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

In June 2018, we released the App Service Migration Assessment Tool. The Assessment Tool was designed to help customers quickly and easily assess whether a site could be moved to Azure App Service by scanning an externally accessible (HTTP) endpoint. Today we’re pleased to announce the release of an updated version, the App Service Migration Assist...

Apr 11, 2019
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Announcing ML.NET 1.0 RC – Machine Learning for .NET

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

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 for common scenarios like Sentiment Analysis, Recommendation, ...

Apr 11, 2019
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Web and Azure Tool Updates in Visual Studio 2019

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

Hopefully by now you’ve seen that Visual Studio 2019 is now generally available. As you would expect, we’ve added improvements for web and Azure development. As a starting point, Visual Studio 2019 comes with a new experience for getting started with your code and we updated the experience for creating ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core projects to match:

Apr 9, 2019
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Little great things about Visual Studio 2019

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

A few days ago, we announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2019. But I’ve been using Visual Studio 2019 exclusively since the first internal build – long before the release of Preview 1 in December of 2018. During this time, there has been a lot of little features that have put a smile on my face and made me more productive.

Apr 9, 2019
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.NET Core Workers as Windows Services

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

In .NET Core 3.0 we are introducing a new type of application template called Worker Service. This template is intended to give you a starting point for writing long running services in .NET Core. In this walkthrough we will create a worker and run it as a Windows Service.

Apr 9, 2019
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GlideX For Fast Images on Android

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

Getting good image performance on Android has traditionally been a difficult task. Google has some documentation on the subject, which unfortunately mentions some complex topics:

Apr 9, 2019
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Migrating Delegate.BeginInvoke Calls for .NET Core

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

I recently worked with a couple customers migrating applications to .NET Core that had to make code changes to workaround and methods on delegates not being supported on .NET Core. In this post, we’ll look at why these APIs aren’t implemented for .NET Core, why their usage isn’t caught by the .NET API Portability Analyzer, and how to fix code usi...

Apr 4, 2019
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Visual Studio 2019 now available for download

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

Visual Studio 2019 is generally available today and available for download. With Visual Studio 2019, you and your teams will become more productive in building current and future projects as you benefit from the innovation in the IDE that makes every keystroke count.