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Supporting the community with WF and WCF OSS projects

June 11, 2019 Jun 11, 2019 06/11/19

Shikha Kaul

At the Build conference in May 2019, we mentioned that, after we add WinForms, WPF and Entity Framework 6 to .NET Core 3.0, we do not plan to add any more of the technologies from .NET Framework to .NET Core...

Improving Azure DevOps cherry-picking

June 6, 2019 Jun 6, 2019 06/6/19

Shikha Kaul

One of the more powerful git commands is the cherry-pick command. This command takes one or more existing commits and applies each commit’s changes as a new commit on a different branch. This can be an extremely powerful component of many git workflows such as the Azure DevOps team’s Release Flow. To highlight a common use-case for it, let...

Going all in on ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Visual Studio Developer Community

June 6, 2019 Jun 6, 2019 06/6/19

Shikha Kaul

In October 2018, we announced that the Developer Community site we have used for reporting issues will work for feature requests in one convenient place. We also shared the plan to migrate from UserVoice forum to Developer Community. Since then, we have received and responded to over 2500 new feature suggestions on Developer Community with ...

CheckBox with Xamarin.Forms 4.1.0 Pre-Release

June 6, 2019 Jun 6, 2019 06/6/19

Shikha Kaul

Just a few weeks ago we shipped Xamarin.Forms 4.0, which introduced the new Shell navigation for quickly bootstrapping your applications. As well as image source unification to make it convenient to use the same images everywhere, like the new FontImageSource. Several months ago our very own James Montemagno submitted a pull request ...

What’s new in Azure SignalR 1.1.0 Preview 1

June 6, 2019 Jun 6, 2019 06/6/19

Shikha Kaul

We just shipped 1.1.0 Preview 1 of Azure SignalR Service SDK to support some new features in ASP.NET Core 3.0, including endpoint routing and server-side Blazor. Let’s take a look how you can use them in your Azure SignalR application...

Azure Service Fabric 6.4 Refresh Release

June 4, 2019 Jun 4, 2019 06/4/19

Shikha Kaul

The updates for .NET SDK, Java SDK and Service Fabric runtimes will be available through Web Platform Installer, NuGet packages and Maven repositories in 7-10 days within all regions...

Introducing Push to User for Visual Studio App Center

June 4, 2019 Jun 4, 2019 06/4/19

Shikha Kaul

We made some recent changes to Visual Studio App Center that enable our customers to associate app users with their data in App Center. App Center customers can use this user association to send push notifications to specific users through App Center Push. In this article, I’ll explain how it all works...

Create Interactive .NET Documentation with Try .NET

May 30, 2019 May 30, 2019 05/30/19

Shikha Kaul

When it comes to developers’ documentation, it is essential that we capture their interest and lead them down the path of success as soon as possible. Across multiple languages, developer ecosystems have been providing their communities with interactive documentation where users can read the docs, run code and, edit it all in one place...

Simplify the management of application configurations with Azure App Configuration

May 30, 2019 May 30, 2019 05/30/19

Shikha Kaul

We’re excited to announce the public preview of Azure App Configuration, a new service aimed at simplifying the management of application configuration and feature flighting for developers and IT. App Configuration provides a centralized place in Microsoft Azure for users to store all their application settings and feature flags (a.k.a., ...

Xamarin.Forms 4.0: Getting Started with Shell

May 30, 2019 May 30, 2019 05/30/19

Shikha Kaul

Xamarin.Forms 4.0 introduced amazing new features to help streamline development when building beautiful mobile apps with C#. The main highlight was the new Xamarin.Forms Shell, which seeks to reduce the complexity of building mobile apps by providing fundamental app architecture features. Such as a full visual hierarchy, common navigation ...