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October 2019 - Visual Studio news feed

Announcing the Azure Boards app for Microsoft Teams

October 29, 2019 Oct 29, 2019 10/29/19
Shikha Kaul
Developers today rely on communication platforms like Microsoft Teams extensively to get work done. Often, Microsoft Teams is the place where ideas are discussed, insights are generated and product defects are identified. The same discussions then can continue in Azure Boards where development teams actually plan and manage their work. We are ...

Start building with Azure Cognitive Services for free

October 29, 2019 Oct 29, 2019 10/29/19
Shikha Kaul
Innovate at no cost to you, with out-of-the box AI services that are newly available for Azure free account users. Join the 1.3 million developers who have been using Cognitive Services to build AI powered apps to date. With the broadest offering of AI services in the market, Azure Cognitive Services can unlock AI for more scenarios than other...

Dev Preview of New DirectX 12 Features

October 29, 2019 Oct 29, 2019 10/29/19
Shikha Kaul
In this blog post, we will preview a suite of new DirectX 12 features, including DirectX Raytracing tier 1.1, Mesh Shader, and Sampler Feedback. We will briefly explain what each feature is and how it will improve the gaming experience. In subsequent weeks, we will publish more technical details on each feature along with feature specs. All ...

Build Great Xamarin Apps with App Center

October 29, 2019 Oct 29, 2019 10/29/19
Shikha Kaul
Visual Studio App Center offers integrated and end-to-end developer services for building, managing and powering your Xamarin iOS and Android apps. From modular SDKs designed to implement services with just a few lines of code to simplified continuous integration and delivery pipelines. In addition to powerful Authentication, Data Sync, and ...

Announcing TypeScript 3.7 RC

October 29, 2019 Oct 29, 2019 10/29/19
Shikha Kaul
We’re pleased to announce TypeScript 3.7 RC, the release candidate of TypeScript 3.7. Between now and the final release, we expect no further changes except for critical bug fixes...

AddressSanitizer (ASan) for Windows with MSVC

October 24, 2019 Oct 24, 2019 10/24/19
Shikha Kaul
We are pleased to announce AddressSanitizer (ASan) support for the MSVC toolset. ASan is a fast memory error detector that can find runtime memory issues such as use-after-free and perform out of bounds checks. Support for sanitizers has been one of our more popular suggestions on Developer Community, and we can now say that we have an ...

A Look Inside D3D12 Resource State Barriers

October 24, 2019 Oct 24, 2019 10/24/19
Shikha Kaul
Many D3D12 developers have become accustomed to managing resource state transitions and read/write hazards themselves using the ResourceBarrier API. Prior to D3D12, such details were handled internally by the driver.  However, D3D12 command lists cannot provide the same deterministic state tracking as D3D10 and D3D11 device contexts.  ...

Securely Access, Visualize and Manage your Mobile App Data with Data Metrics View and Data Explorer capabilities in Visual Studio App Center

October 24, 2019 Oct 24, 2019 10/24/19
Shikha Kaul
Over the past few weeks, the Visual Studio App Center team has shipped new functionality to make managing and syncing your data much easier. Recently, we shipped an entirely new portal experience for App Center Data, enabling you to view your app’s utilization metrics and engage with your app data...

Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 19002 available now!

October 24, 2019 Oct 24, 2019 10/24/19
Shikha Kaul
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 19002 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 19002 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area...