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Aug 24, 2018
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Announcing F# 4.5

Today, we’re incredibly pleased to announce general availability of F# 4.5. This post will walk through the changes in F# 4.5 (just like the preview post), then show some updates to F# tooling, and finally talk a bit about where what we’re thinking about for the next F# version.

Aug 22, 2018
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Top 5 Mobile App Security Failures and How To Prevent Them

In the race to get innovative new mobile apps or cool new features added to existing mobile apps out the door faster, secure coding practices in mobile app development aren’t always at the top of every developer’s list. In fact, our NowSecure benchmarks show that some 85 percent of iOS and Android apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play have 1 ...

Aug 22, 2018
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Using MSVC in a Docker Container for Your C++ Projects

Containers encapsulate the runtime environment of an application: the file system, environment settings, and virtualized OS are bundled into a package. Docker containers have changed the way we think about build and test environments since they were introduced five years ago.

Aug 22, 2018
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Preview: iOS 12 development with Xamarin

The latest Xamarin preview release supports Xcode 10 beta 5, which includes beta SDKs for iOS 12, macOS Mojave (10.14), watchOS 5, and tvOS 12.

Aug 22, 2018
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App Center Test: Android 9 Pie Support, 3000+ Real Devices, Improved Test Notifications and More

In today’s fast-moving mobile world, it’s imperative to deliver high quality experiences on the latest platforms and operating systems. We are excited to announce Visual Studio App Center has same-day Test framework and device support for Android 9 Pie! Get ahead of any breaking changes to your app that could be caused by this major platform update...

Aug 17, 2018
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Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 now available

Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. In this version we have focused on productivity, performance and bug fixes. There are many new features you‘ll find useful, but in this post, I’ll underscore the highlights you may be most interested in. For the complete list of all the updates in today’s release, check out the Visual Studio 2...

Aug 17, 2018
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What is Artificial Intelligence?

It has been said that Artificial Intelligence will define the next generation of software solutions. If you are even remotely involved with technology, you will almost certainly have heard the term with increasing regularity over the last few years.

Aug 17, 2018
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Catch up on what’s new in Azure: Azure.Source – Volume 44

Announcing the public preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service - Windows Server Containers in Web App are now available in public preview. Azure App Service provides pre-defined application stacks on Windows like ASP.NET or Node.js, running on IIS. The preconfigured Windows environment locks down the operating system from administr...