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C++ Inliner Improvements: The Zipliner

January 7, 2020 Jan 7, 2020 01/7/20

Shikha Kaul

Visual Studio 2019 versions 16.3 and 16.4 include improvements to the C++ inliner. Among these is the ability to inline some routines after they have been optimized, referred to as the “Zipliner.” Depending on your application, you may see some minor code quality improvements and/or major build-time (compiler throughput) improvements...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.01.03

January 7, 2020 Jan 7, 2020 01/7/20

Shikha Kaul

This is the first post of 2020, and the community did not take a break for the holidays! Today, I am reminded of the importance of 101s and introductory trainings. Wherever you are on your (Azure) DevOps journey, this community has content for you...

January Events for Xamarin and .NET Developers

January 7, 2020 Jan 7, 2020 01/7/20

Shikha Kaul

New year, tons of awesome new ways to kick off your resolutions with Xamarin and .NET related events this January. Explore all the recent news and updates with your community at developer Meetups around the world. Including online, virtual events to watch from the comfort of your home...

Top Xamarin Blog Posts of 2019

January 7, 2020 Jan 7, 2020 01/7/20

Shikha Kaul

2019 was an awesome year for Xamarin developers! It was packed full with new releases, exciting events, and product announcements. As well as brand new features to boost productivity and accelerate mobile development. Each week on the Xamarin blog, we aim to keep developers up to date with all of the happenings in the Xamarin universe. While ...

Languages & Runtime: .NET Community Standup – Dec. 12th 2019

January 2, 2020 Jan 2, 2020 01/2/20

Shikha Kaul

Join members from the .NET teams for our community standup covering great community contributions for Framework, .NET Core, Languages, CLI, MSBuild, and more...

An Introduction to DataFrame

January 2, 2020 Jan 2, 2020 01/2/20

Shikha Kaul

Last month, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks, and showed how to use them to work with .NET for Apache Spark and ML.NET. Today, we’re announcing the preview of a DataFrame type for .NET to make data exploration easy. If you’ve used Python to manipulate data in notebooks, you’ll already be familiar with the concept of a ...

The .NET Conf Focus on Blazor Event Agenda is live – check it out

January 2, 2020 Jan 2, 2020 01/2/20

Shikha Kaul

Schedule Session times are approximate. We will update final times soon! All times listed in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -8...

Publish smaller apps with the Android App Bundle

January 2, 2020 Jan 2, 2020 01/2/20

Shikha Kaul

The Android App Bundle (.aab) is a new upload format that includes all of your app’s compiled code and resources, but defers APK generation and signing to Google Play at install time...

Tips for learning Azure in the new year

January 2, 2020 Jan 2, 2020 01/2/20

Shikha Kaul

As 2020 is upon us, it's natural to take time and reflect back on the current year’s achievements (and challenges) and begin planning for the next year. One of our New Year’s resolutions was to continue live streaming software development topics to folks all over the world. In our broadcasts in late November and December, the Azure ...