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Jul 28, 2017
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Get Started with F# as a C# developer

Vahe Minasyan

One of our previous posts, Why You Should Use F#, listed a few reasons why F# is worth trying out today. In this post, we’ll cover some of the basics you need to know to be successful. This post is intended for people who are coming from a C#, Java, or other object-oriented background. The concepts covered here should seem very familiar to existing...

Jul 28, 2017
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What we’ve learned from .NET Core SDK Telemetry

Vahe Minasyan

We are releasing .NET Core SDK usage data that has been collected by the .NET Core CLI. We have been using this data to determine the most common CLI scenarios, the distribution of operating systems and to answer other questions we’ve had, as described below. As an open source application platform that collects usage data via an SDK, it is importan...

Jul 26, 2017
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Profile-guided optimization in .NET Core 2.0

Vahe Minasyan

.NET Core 2.0 introduces many new optimizations that will make your code even faster. A lot of work has been done in the base class library to improve performance, but in this post, we’d like to talk about a specific category of optimization: profile-guided optimization (or PGO, pronounced "pogo").

Jul 26, 2017
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Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2017 Update 2 RTM – Brian Harry

Vahe Minasyan

Today we released the final version of Team Foundation Server 2017.2.  Thank you to everyone who installed one of the two release candidates over the past few months and helped us ensure that this is a high quality release.

Jul 26, 2017
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SQL Server 2017 containers for DevOps scenarios

Vahe Minasyan

SQL Server 2017 will bring with it support for the Linux OS and containers running on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Our goal is to enable SQL Server to run in modern IT infrastructure in any public or private cloud. With support for containers, SQL Server can now be used in many popular DevOps scenarios.  Developers working with Continuous Integration...

Jul 21, 2017
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First release candidate of SQL Server 2017 now available (for Windows, Linux and Docker)

Vahe Minasyan

We are pleased to announce availability of the first public release candidate for SQL Server 2017, Release Candidate 1 (RC1), which is now available for download. This means that development work for the new version of SQL Server is complete along most dimensions needed to bring the industry-leading performance and security of SQL Server to Windows...

Jul 21, 2017
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Nested Virtualization in Azure

Vahe Minasyan

Today we are excited to announce that you can now enable nested virtualization using the Dv3 and Ev3 VM sizes. We will continue to expand support to more VM sizes in the coming months.

Jul 19, 2017
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Improved alternate authentication experience for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

Vahe Minasyan

Recently, we’ve heard feedback from customers that developers have a poor experience creating and managing their alternate authentication credentials and that administrators moving from TFS to the cloud aren’t provided the policies they need to enforce how alternate authentication is used by their end users.  This post will describe our plans to pr...

Jul 19, 2017
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The fastest path to a new Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) extension

Vahe Minasyan

Over the last few years we have introduced a number of ways to extend and integrate with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server. For example, client libraries for .NET (which work with both .NET Framework and .NET Core apps) and for Node.js and an extensibility model that allows extension of our web experience. The possibilities for...

Jul 19, 2017
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Announcing public preview of Wiki in Visual Studio Team Services

Vahe Minasyan

Each project in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) now supports its own Wiki. Now you can conveniently write pages that help your team members and other users understand, use, and contribute to your project.