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May 2017 App Service update

June 7, 2017 Jun 7, 2017 06/7/17
Vahe Minasyan
Azure functions now support creation of deployment slots, just like apps on App Service you can create slots and perform swap operations between slots.We have revamped the backup experience to make it more streamlined and easier to configure.The new Delete experience provides more information about what will be deleted and allows you to opt ...

Beyond GVFS: more details on optimizing Git for large repositories

June 2, 2017 Jun 2, 2017 06/2/17
Vahe Minasyan
Over the last few years, Microsoft has been moving the entire company to a modern engineering system built on Visual Studio Team Services and using Git as our version control system. For many of the projects within Microsoft, this is no problem, since: the Git homepage tell us: Git was built to work on the Linux kernel, meaning that it has had...

The largest Git repo on the planet

May 31, 2017 May 31, 2017 05/31/17
Vahe Minasyan
It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”.  As a reminder, GVFS, together with a set of enhancements to Git, enables Git to scale to VERY large repos by virtualizing both the .git folder and the working directory.  ...

What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: May 2017 Digest

May 31, 2017 May 31, 2017 05/31/17
Vahe Minasyan
This post series provides the latest updates and news for Visual Studio Team Services and is a great way for Azure users to keep up-to-date with new features being released every three weeks. Visual Studio Team Services offers the best DevOps tooling to create an efficient continuous integration and release pipeline to Azure. This sprint has ...

Announcing General Availability of Work item search

May 31, 2017 May 31, 2017 05/31/17
Vahe Minasyan
Discovering relevant work items should consume as little time and effort as possible. That’s why we have built work item search with speed and simplicity in mind, so you can spend more of your time on your work and less time searching for work items.  Say hello to Work item search, now available by default with Visual Studio Team Services...

Application Insights support for Microservices and Containers

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Vahe Minasyan
We’ve recently made it much easier to monitor microservices and containerized applications using Azure Application Insights. A single Application Insights resource can be used for all the components of your application. The health of the services and the relationships between them are displayed on a single Application Map. You can trace ...

Glimpse the Future of Xamarin Forms 3.0

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Vahe Minasyan
At Microsoft Build 2017 we shared our vision for Xamarin.Forms 3.0: to enable using Xamarin.Forms in more ways, on more platforms, and faster than ever before. Today, I want to walk you through some of the exciting new features that we’ll be adding to Xamarin.Forms that we know you’re going to love...

Dear DocumentDB customers, welcome to Azure Cosmos DB!

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Vahe Minasyan
Azure Cosmos DB, announced at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference, is the first globally distributed, multi-model database service for building planet scale apps. You can easily build globally-distributed applications without the hassle of complex, multiple-datacenter configurations. Designed as a globally distributed database system, Cosmos ...

Unity game development with Visual Studio for Mac

May 17, 2017 May 17, 2017 05/17/17
Vahe Minasyan
In 2014, we released the first version of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity (VSTU). Since then, we’ve successfully released multiple versions of the Tools for Unity on Windows, but never had the opportunity to bring our tools to Unity developers running macOS. Today at the Microsoft Build conference, we announced the general availability of ...