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Improving Azure DevOps cherry-picking

June 6, 2019 Jun 6, 2019 06/6/19
Shikha Kaul
One of the more powerful git commands is the cherry-pick command. This command takes one or more existing commits and applies each commit’s changes as a new commit on a different branch. This can be an extremely powerful component of many git workflows such as the Azure DevOps team’s Release Flow. To highlight a common use-case for it, let...

Going all in on ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Visual Studio Developer Community

June 6, 2019 Jun 6, 2019 06/6/19
Shikha Kaul
In October 2018, we announced that the Developer Community site we have used for reporting issues will work for feature requests in one convenient place. We also shared the plan to migrate from UserVoice forum to Developer Community. Since then, we have received and responded to over 2500 new feature suggestions on Developer Community with ...

CheckBox with Xamarin.Forms 4.1.0 Pre-Release

June 6, 2019 Jun 6, 2019 06/6/19
Shikha Kaul
Just a few weeks ago we shipped Xamarin.Forms 4.0, which introduced the new Shell navigation for quickly bootstrapping your applications. As well as image source unification to make it convenient to use the same images everywhere, like the new FontImageSource. Several months ago our very own James Montemagno submitted a pull request ...

What’s new in Azure SignalR 1.1.0 Preview 1

June 6, 2019 Jun 6, 2019 06/6/19
Shikha Kaul
We just shipped 1.1.0 Preview 1 of Azure SignalR Service SDK to support some new features in ASP.NET Core 3.0, including endpoint routing and server-side Blazor. Let’s take a look how you can use them in your Azure SignalR application...

Azure Service Fabric 6.4 Refresh Release

June 4, 2019 Jun 4, 2019 06/4/19
Shikha Kaul
The updates for .NET SDK, Java SDK and Service Fabric runtimes will be available through Web Platform Installer, NuGet packages and Maven repositories in 7-10 days within all regions...

Code Reviews Using the Visual Studio Pull Requests Extension

June 4, 2019 Jun 4, 2019 06/4/19
Shikha Kaul
The Pull Requests for Visual Studio is a new experimental extension that adds several code review tools to Visual Studio. This extension aims to make it easy for you to launch and view pull requests inside the integrated development environment (IDE) without needing to switch windows or use the web. We learned from customers that having a high...

Azure IoT Edge Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement

June 4, 2019 Jun 4, 2019 06/4/19
Shikha Kaul
We’re excited to announce the preview availability of the new Azure IoT Edge Tools Extension (Preview) for Visual Studio 2019. The extension provides a rich set of functionalities to support development of IoT Edge solutions with Visual Studio 2019...

Introducing Push to User for Visual Studio App Center

June 4, 2019 Jun 4, 2019 06/4/19
Shikha Kaul
We made some recent changes to Visual Studio App Center that enable our customers to associate app users with their data in App Center. App Center customers can use this user association to send push notifications to specific users through App Center Push. In this article, I’ll explain how it all works...