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Xamarin.Essentials has been a staple for developers building iOS, Android, and Windows apps with Xamarin and .NET since it was first released last year. Now, we are introducing Xamarin.Essentials 1.6, which adds new APIs ncluding MediaPicker, AppActions, Contacts, and more
We’ve launched a new Game Development with .NET section on our site. It’s designed for current .NET developers to explore all the choices available to them when developing games. It’s also designed for new developers trying to learn how to use .NET by making games.
Qt is a popular cross-platform framework for application development and user interface design. Qt recently released a new version of the Qt Visual Studio Tools extension that integrates with Visual Studio’s Linux development with C++ workload. This extension allows you to build and debug MSBuild-based Qt projects on both Windows and Linux directly...
The C++ team has been expanding C++ Core Check’s coverage over the last five years. We have added more rules into the existing Type, Bounds, and Lifetimes profiles and have expanded into other areas of the C++ Core Guidelines
Learn how you can enable resilient DevOps practices with GitHub and Azure and ship faster while maintaining governance, security, and compliance standards while working remotely.
Setting up and running a microservice application locally can be time-consuming and complex. Visual Studio PM Nick Greenfield shows how Bridge to Kubernetes enables you to connect to a Kubernetes cluster without needing to manually source, configure and compile external dependencies on your development workstation
Learn about new capabilities in Visual Studio, GitHub, and Azure to help your team move to remote development, increase velocity with confidence, and drive cost savings.
As of today, Azure Static Web Apps now has first-class support for Blazor WebAssembly and .NET Functions in preview, available in all supported regions. This was one of the top user requests since Static Web Apps was announced at Build. You can develop and deploy a frontend and a serverless API written entirely in .NET.
In May of this year we announced Visual Studio Codespaces and early support for .NET Core developers. Since then we’ve had some early adopters try it out and they gave us great feedback. We’ve made a bunch of progress on enabling more in the Codespaces capabilities as well. We’ve also made some fundamental changes as we are now GitHub Codespaces...
. The publish experience in Visual Studio now has an option to generate a GitHub Actions workflow for CI/CD to your preferred Azure resources, by using deployment secrets configured in your GitHub repository.