With C# we have always tended towards major releases: bundle a lot of features up, and release less frequently. We even went so far as routinely omitting the traditional ".0" when we talked about C# 6.0! In the C# 7.0 "wave" we are trying something new. Tools such as Visual Studio upgrade on a frequent cadence, and there’s no longer a technical rea...

Configuring a CMake project to build in just the way you want can often be a time intensive process, so in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 preview we have made it easier than ever to import your existing CMake projects and cache configurations into the IDE.  You can now import an existing CMakeCache.txt file and Visual Studio will automatically extract cus...

I won’t comment too much on the new capabilities this sprint.  There’s a bunch of nice stuff but not a lot that is earth shaking.  Our focus for the last sprint or two has been on some things we are going to unveil at our Connect(); conference in about 2 weeks (Nov 15 – 17).  There’s a small in-person component to the conference but a much larger v...

We have recently added a few interesting features for ASP.NET publishing. The updates include: Container Registry Publish Updates; Create publish profile without publishing. In this post, we will briefly describe these updates. We will get started with the container related news.

Now that you’ve had a chance to augment reality in your Xamarin iOS apps with ARKit, it’s time to explore Google’s take on AR in your Xamarin Android apps. The new ARCore SDK provides APIs for Augmented Reality features, such as motion tracking, plane detection, and light estimation. These are the building blocks you will use to add AR experiences ...

ASP.NET Core 2.0 recently released and, with it, came some new templates, including new project templates for single-page applications (SPA) served from an ASP.NET Core backend. These templates make it easy to setup a web application with a rich JavaScript frontend and powerful ASP.NET Core backend. Even better, the templates enable server-side pre...

One of the more obvious user interface changes in iOS 11 is the larger titles that are used across the system apps, from the App Store and Apple Music to Notes and Mail. The Health and Contact apps are shown below:

TypeScript 2.6 is here in time for Halloween, but have no fear! We’ve got some great treats for you in this release. If you haven’t heard of TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on top of the most up-to-date versions of JavaScript by adding optional static types. These types don’t just help catch things like typos and logic errors; they also can...

Yesterday we released the second Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and we would love it if you would try it out and tell us what you think. We’ve polished up some features that were introduced with the first Preview, addressed some of the issues you’ve reported, and made improvements in the product’s fundamentals such as performance, relia...

Five-star mobile apps are all about consistent and predictable output. It’s not a good experience for users when an app suddenly crashes or doesn’t format correctly on their mobile screens. Developers can easily avoid these scenarios by testing for various scenarios on different devices, and Visual Studio Mobile Center makes it easy to test your mo...