In this first of two episodes, Robert is joined by Steve Jones to discuss how you can use the Redgate Data Tools that are included in Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 to extend DevOps practices to SQL Server and Azure SQL databases. In this episode, Steve demonstrates the migrations-based approach used by ReadyRoll, which generates numerically ordere...

Delivering an interactive and engaging experience is critical to standing out in today’s massive app marketplace. Using video in your mobile apps offers an excellent way to engage your users and keep them in your app longer. Adam’s Xamarin.Forms Video Player minimizes the complexity of video playback across Android, iOS, and Windows environments. ...

It’s only the beginning of the year, but there are already many opportunities to get out and start building on your mobile app development education! Network with local user groups to learn about new and exciting releases, tooling, or updates to Xamarin and related technologies. Below are just a few of the Xamarin events happening around the world ...

Although Xamarin technologies are most commonly used to develop mobile applications, Xamarin.Mac makes it easy to use your preferred .NET language to develop desktop Mac apps. There are many C# examples in Xamarin’s mac-samples directory on Github, but it’s also easy to use F# to develop desktop Mac apps as well. Currently, there is no support for...

Today, we are releasing the January 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. See details below.

Unity is a powerful solution to create games for a multitude of platforms, from mobiles to consoles, desktop and web games. Since Unity 5.2, Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Tools for Unity have been the default experience on Windows. When we released Visual Studio for Mac last year, Unity was among the first scenarios we supported out of the b...

Today, we are releasing the .NET for UWP January 2018 Update. This post includes the fix included and instructions on how to update your applications. .NET for UWP fixes are released differently than .NET Framework. While .NET Framework fixes are released via Windows Update, .NET for UWP requires that applications be re-processed by the .NET nati...

Today, we are happy to announce the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 is available on Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Microsoft Update (MU) Catalog. This includes reliability fixes based on your early feedback on the release. .NET Framework 4.7.1 is available for the following client and server platforms: Client platforms: W...

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core January 2018 Update. This includes .NET Core 1.0.9, 1.1.6 and 2.0.5. Please leave feedback on the release in the comments below or at dotnet/core #1199.

As we ushered in 2018, our industry was busy responding to an industry-wide, hardware-based security vulnerability related to CPU data cache timing. We updated the Azure infrastructure to address this vulnerability at the hypervisor level. You can get more details about the steps taken to address this vulnerability here: Securing Azure customers fr...