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Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6

Today we are announcing the release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6. Our focus with this release has been to improve product reliability in various areas, with a special focus on the code editing experience. We have also made several fixes that improve IDE performance. Finally, we’ve extended our support for Azure functions with the ...

Unit Testing Tools in Visual Studio 2017 [Video]

In this video, Robert is joined by Kendra Havens, who shows us some of the excellent unit test tooling in Visual Studio 2017, including testing performance improvements [03:57], Hierarchy View in the Test Explorer [05:13], generating unit tests [09:35], Intellitest [10:50], code coverage [16:10] and Live Unit Testing [19:10...

.NET Core August 2018 Update

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core August 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 2.1.3 and .NET Core SDK 2.1.401...

What’s new in VSTS Sprint 138 Update

The Sprint 138 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all organizations. In this update, test results for releases have been enhanced to group together test attempts and summarize better. Watch the following video to learn about this and a few of the other new features...

Moving from Hosted XML Process to Inherited Process in VSTS – Generally Available

Last month we announced a private preview that allows you to move projects that use a Hosted XML process to an Inherited process. We received a fare share of feedback, watched the telemetry, and made some fixes. This week we announced that the feature is now generally available! If you are using Hosted XML, and you are ready to move to the ...

Catch up on what’s new in Azure: Azure.Source – Volume 45

Announcing VNet service endpoints general availability for MySQL and PostgreSQL - Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL in all regions where the service is available for General Purpose and Memory Optimized servers. You can use virtual network service endpoints to isolate connectivity to your logical ...

Important dates regarding apps with Windows Phone 8.x and earlier and Windows 8/8.1 packages submitted to Microsoft Store

As a part of our Windows device life cycle, Microsoft Store will soon stop accepting new apps with Windows Phone 8.x or earlier or Windows 8/8.1 packages (XAP and APPX). Soon after that date, we will stop distributing app updates to Windows Phone 8.x or earlier and Windows 8/8.1 devices; at that time, updates will only be made available to ...

Bing.com runs on .NET Core 2.1!

Bing.com is a cloud service that runs on thousands of servers spanning many datacenters across the globe. Bing servers handle thousands of users’ queries every second from consumers around the world doing searches through their browsers, from our partners using the Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs, and from the personal digital assistant, ...

Attend A .NET Conf Event Near You!

If you have not yet heard of the .NET Conf, it is a FREE, 3-day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. There is a wide selection of live sessions with feature speakers streamed directly from communities around the world and by the .NET product teams. It is your chance to enhance your skills, ask questions to ...

Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 for web developers

This week we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. Our 15.8 update brings the following improvements for web developers...