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Feb 16, 2018
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C++ Static Analysis Improvements for Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2

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We’ve made a few changes to the C++ static analysis feature that should make it faster and easier to use. The behavior has changed slightly, and the menus have been moved around a bit, but we think that the new experience is faster and more consistent. Let’s take a quick look at the changes. Single File Analysis Developers tend to focus on a few ...

Feb 16, 2018
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Spectre mitigations in MSVC (C++ team blog)

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Microsoft is aware of a new publicly disclosed class of vulnerabilities, called “speculative execution side-channel attacks,” that affect many operating systems and modern processors, including processors from Intel, AMD, and ARM. On the MSVC team, we’ve reviewed information in detail and conducted extensive tests, which showed the performance impa...

Feb 14, 2018
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#ifdef WINDOWS – Progressive Web Apps

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Jeff Burtoft from the Web Apps team at Microsoft dropped by to share how web apps on Windows have evolved, all the way from regular web sites, to packaged web apps in Windows 8, Hosted Web Apps in Windows 10, and finally adopting Progressive Web Apps with support for Service Workers and native APIs. We also covered the top 3 necessary components n...

Feb 14, 2018
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A new experiment: Browser-based web apps with .NET and Blazor

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App Center Team

Today I’m excited to announce a new experimental project from the ASP.NET team called Blazor. Blazor is an experimental web UI framework based on C#, Razor, and HTML that runs in the browser via WebAssembly. Blazor promises to greatly simplify the task of building fast and beautiful single-page applications that run in any browser. It does this by ...

Feb 14, 2018
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Windows Template Studio 1.7 released!

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We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.7! In this release, our two big items are Visual Basic support and Prism framework! We love how the community is helping. If you’re interested, please head over to head over to WTS’s Github.

Feb 14, 2018
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Continuous Quality: Ship Better Apps Faster with Visual Studio App Center

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App Center Team

Think about one of your mobile apps... How often do you publish updates to it? A couple of times per year? Quarterly? Monthly, bi-weekly? Every day? Multiple times per day? No! That's crazy, right? Or is it? Some world-class app engineering teams are able to consistently release their apps weekly or every two weeks at high quality. How do they ma...

Feb 14, 2018
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Bing Speech API extends its text to speech support to 34 languages

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App Center Team

Voice is becoming more and more prevalent as a mode of interaction with all kinds of devices and services. The ability to provide not only voice input but also voice output or Text-to-speech (TTS), is also becoming a critical technology that supports AI. Whether you need to interact on a device, over the phone, in a vehicle, through a building PA s...

Feb 9, 2018
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Last week in Azure: Event Grid GA, Ansible in Cloud Shell, and more

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Last week in Azure, Azure Event Grid, a fully managed, scalable and flexible event routing service became generally available. Event Grid enables you to build reactive, event-driven apps with a fully managed event routing service using a publish-subscribe model to connect data sources and event handlers, automate operations, and integrate applicati...

Feb 9, 2018
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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 4

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App Center Team

Today, we are excited to share the final Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 feature preview, which builds upon earlier previews of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6. This preview contains new features, bug fixes, and other enhancements that address your feedback. The top highlights of this Preview are described in this blog post: an enhanced acquisitio...

Feb 9, 2018
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Top stories from the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) community – 2018.02.02

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Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES •Work can flow across the Sprint boundary – Martin Hinshelwood There is nothing in the Scrum Guide that says that you can’t have workflow across the Sprint boundary. I’m going to suggest that not only can you, but you shoul...