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The past few years, innovation and increasingly savvy users have dramatically raised the bar for app quality. Industry leaders have taken notice, and they’re capitalizing on three core trends to stay ahead of their users—and their competition: (1) transitioning from basic apps to amazing mobile experiences
Today we’re announcing the availability of Azure Stack Technical Preview 3. Azure Stack is the vessel we’re using to bring Azure technologies in a way designed to run on-premises. Azure Stack is aimed at rounding out a cloud strategy by providing additional choice and flexibility when using Azure.
Our mobile devices and wearables shape how we communicate and find information. Luckily, Visual Studio – including the latest version, Visual Studio 2017, launching on March 7 – gives you all the tools you need to start building apps for the ever-growing connected device ecosystem. Whether you’re building for enterprise users or everyday consumers,...
MSTest V2 has crossed 100K downloads. It has been but just a few months since we shipped it on NuGet. Over this course of time, you have reported issues and given us feedback, and we have tried to address them as fast as we can, refreshing the bits at a feverish pace. We are now at a stage where, as of v1.1.11 MSTest V2 has shed the pre-release tag...
Microservices are a hot architecture concept right now, and we hear a lot of interest in the architecture concepts. Many of the ideas and capabilities behind microservices are already possible with the WCF frameworks for client and server creation. There is one tenet about microservices that you can not do with WCF: run inside of a container. Un...
Twenty-five years ago, I started my first day at Microsoft as a developer on the Access team, and then as a developer on a newly created product – Visual InterDev. I remember how the emphasis was on the Visual part of our various product offerings, we have come a long way to the Visual Studio we have now. Today, I’m proud and humbled that Visual St...
Readers of this blog interested in Real-Time Communications are probably familiar with Google’s WebRTC project. From the WebRTC site:
In last week’s episode, we’re speaking with Beth Massi to celebrate .NET’s 15th anniversary. This week, Eric Mellino will be on the show to demo CrazyCore, a game engine written on .NET Core. We’ll stream live on Channel 9. We’ll take questions on Gitter’s dotnet/home channel and on Twitter. Please use the #onnet tag. It’s OK to start sending us qu...
Working with pull requests that are assigned to teams is getting a lot easier. When a PR is created or updated, email alerts will now be sent to all members of all teams that are assigned to the PR.
James Montemagno shows how Xamarin developers can fully automate their Android and iOS release pipelines, including builds, tests, and beta distribution. He also discusses how to integrate the Mobile Center SDK into your apps to track how they—and your users—behave in the wild. Simina Pasat and Joshua Weber show you how Mobile Center simplifies you...