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Xamarin Goes Dual Screen

January 28, 2020 Jan 28, 2020 01/28/20

Shikha Kaul

Surface Duo introduces a whole new class of ultra-portable experiences running on dual screens. Today we are excited to announce our public preview of the SDK for Surface Duo. Xamarin developers can take advantage of the new SDK to enlighten existing apps and create innovative experiences that inspires creativity...

Announcing dual-screen preview SDKs and Microsoft 365 Developer Day

January 28, 2020 Jan 28, 2020 01/28/20

Shikha Kaul

In November, we shared our vision for dual-screen devices and how this new device category will help people get more done on smaller and more mobile form factors. Today, we are excited to give you an update on how you can get started and optimize for dual-screen devices by...

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview

January 28, 2020 Jan 28, 2020 01/28/20

Shikha Kaul

This week, Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 was released, bringing several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio to help you build better mobile apps, faster...

DevOps for Android App Bundles (Xamarin)

January 23, 2020 Jan 23, 2020 01/23/20

Shikha Kaul

Android App Bundle is a new app packaging format from Google for Android applications that dramatically reduces the install size for end users. Traditionally, when building an Android app, one would create one large APK file that all users would receive. When packaging your app in an App Bundle, applications are delivered dynamically to users ...

Removing older images in Azure Pipelines hosted pools

January 23, 2020 Jan 23, 2020 01/23/20

Shikha Kaul

Over the past year, we have been able to update Azure Pipelines hosted images faster than ever before. We have also rolled out new images – Windows Server 2019 with Visual Studio 2019, Ubuntu 18.04, and macOS Mojave 10.14. We have seen a phenomenal growth in the use of hosted pools...

D3D12 Translation Layer and D3D11On12 are now open source

January 23, 2020 Jan 23, 2020 01/23/20

Shikha Kaul

If you’re a developer looking to port your game to DX12, we have good news: There’s a helper library available to get you there more easily...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.01.17

January 21, 2020 Jan 21, 2020 01/21/20

Shikha Kaul

The new year is underway, and the days are getting longer. This week, we have some exciting news to share, and some great articles to discuss. Grab a warm beverage and let’s get started...

Announcing: Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event on February 24

January 21, 2020 Jan 21, 2020 01/21/20

Shikha Kaul

Join us online on February 24th for the Visual Studio for Mac Refresh(); event...

Collecting and analyzing .NET memory dumps

January 21, 2020 Jan 21, 2020 01/21/20

Shikha Kaul

Building upon the diagnostics improvements introduced in .NET Core 3.1, we’ve introduced a new tool for collecting heap dumps from a running .NET Core process...

.NET Framework January Security and Quality Rollup

January 21, 2020 Jan 21, 2020 01/21/20

Shikha Kaul

Today, we are releasing the January 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework...