When creating an Azure App Service .NET Core is already pre-installed. However, only the 32 bit .NET runtime is installed. In this post we will look at a few ways that you can get a 64 bit runtime on Azure App Service. During the 2.1 timeframe we are hoping to have both 32 and 64 bit runtimes installed as well as enabling the portal experience to...

At Microsoft Connect(); last November, we announced the general availability of Visual Studio App Center to help (Obj-C, Swift, Java, React Native, and Xamarin) developers quickly build, test, deploy, monitor, and improve their phone, tablet, desktop, and connected device apps with powerful, automated lifecycle services. As a .NET developer, you ma...

We are excited to announce that, in addition to Boost.Test static library support, Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2 now offers Boost.Test dynamic library support and a Boost.Test item template. This means it is now easier than ever to incorporate Boost.Test unit tests into your Visual Studio projects.

In this episode, Dmitry is joined by Jeremy Likness for a discussion of Azure Functions, which provide the powerful capability to merge events and code to quickly deploy micro services directly from Visual Studio or as part of a DevOps pipeline. With a variety of triggers that call the code and bindings that connect code with resources like storage...

As C++ programs get larger and larger and the optimizer becomes more complex the compiler’s build time, or throughput, increasingly comes into focus. It’s something that needs to be continually addressed as new patterns emerge and take hold (such as “unity” builds in gaming). It’s something we’re focusing on here in the Visual C++ Team, and has bec...

VS 2017 15.5 is now available for production use, and 15.6 Preview 1 is also available. As usual, here are feature tables for the STL and compiler, plus a detailed list of STL improvements. (You can also read our previous changelog for VS 2017 15.3.) Please note that due to our branch structure and merge timing, features and fixes described below a...

On September 15, 2016, the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) team blocked the ability to create new Microsoft accounts using email addresses in domains that are configured in Azure AD. Many VSTS customers expressed concern when this change happened. As a result, we worked with the Azure AD team to get a temporary exception for our service to be exc...

Today we are extremely excited to announce that subscription add-ons are available to all UWP developers. You can use subscriptions to sell digital products in your app with automated recurring billing while giving your customers a seamless purchase experience. One thing to keep in mind is that the Store fee for recurring billed subscriptions diffe...

To kick-off 2018, we’re making it easier than ever for OEMs and developers to build for Cortana with the Cortana Devices SDK. Just last week, Johnson Controls announced the new Cortana-enabled JCI Glas thermostat, built using the Cortana Devices SDK. We’ve also partnered with industry leaders including Allwinner, Synaptics, TONLY and Qualcomm, to d...

In this episode, Dmitry is joined by Jeremy Likness, who shows us CosmosDB. This is the Azure database-as-a-service that features geo-replication, user configurable consistency levels, and supports a variety of interfaces from the classic DocumentDB to MongoDB and more. Jeremy demonstrates how to set up a CosmosDB account, load data, and stand up ...