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Announcing Xamarin.Android 9.0 (P) Preview

August 1, 2018 Aug 1, 2018 08/1/18
John Powell
Android 9.0 (P) introduces many features such as Wi-Fi RTT(Round-Trip-Time), Display cutout support, Notification enhancements, Multi-camera support, and much more. We’re excited to announce Xamarin.Android support for Android 9.0 (P) in our latest preview release of Xamarin.Android for both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac...

Current use cases for machine learning in healthcare

August 1, 2018 Aug 1, 2018 08/1/18
John Powell
Machine learning (ML) is causing quite the buzz at the moment, and it’s having a huge impact on healthcare. Payers, providers, and pharmaceutical companies are all seeing applicability in their spaces and are taking advantage of ML today. This is a quick overview of key topics in ML, and how it is being used in healthcare...

Announcing F# 4.5 Preview

August 1, 2018 Aug 1, 2018 08/1/18
John Powell
We’re very excited to announce that we’ll be shipping a new language version of F# soon. The version will be F# 4.5. F# 4.5 has been developed entirely via an open RFC (requests for comments) process, with significant contributions from the community, especially in feature discussions and demonstrating use cases. You can view all RFCs ...

Visual Studio App Center and GDPR

August 1, 2018 Aug 1, 2018 08/1/18
John Powell
On the Visual Studio App Center team, our engineers are completely aligned with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which gives consumers better and more explicit control of data – especially their personal data. For those of you who are less familiar with the GDPR, it is a European regulation designed to give consumers ...

Blazor 0.5.0 experimental release now available

August 1, 2018 Aug 1, 2018 08/1/18
John Powell
Update: We released Blazor 0.5.1 to address several customer reported issues. If you have already installed Blazor 0.5.0 please update to the 0.5.1 patch (release notes). Blazor 0.5.0 is now available! This release explores scenarios where Blazor is run in a separate process from the rendering process. Specifically, Blazor 0.5.0 enables the ...

Top 4 ways to optimize your Microsoft Store listing

July 27, 2018 Jul 27, 2018 07/27/18
John Powell
When publishing your app to the Microsoft Store, be sure to take advantage of the many options to make your Store listing stand out. Great video, text, and images can help create customer interest and drive purchases. Remember, your Microsoft Store listing will be many customers’ first exposure to your app. It’s crucial to make a good ...

What’s new in VSTS Sprint 137 Update

July 27, 2018 Jul 27, 2018 07/27/18
John Powell
The Sprint 137 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all organizations. In this Update, both Microsoft-hosted Linux and macOS agents, as well as Azure DevOps Projects are now generally available. Watch the following video to learn about a few of the features, which also includes a demonstration of some of the ...

Previewing Files Inside Your Xamarin.iOS App

July 27, 2018 Jul 27, 2018 07/27/18
John Powell
If your app interacts with files, such as email attachments or photos, allowing users to preview those files without leaving your app is a great way to enhance the user’s experience. Fortunately, iOS makes adding this feature simple by providing the document interaction controller and the Quick Look preview controller. In this post, you will...

Enabling administrators to revoke VSTS access tokens

July 27, 2018 Jul 27, 2018 07/27/18
John Powell
As promised in the Protecting our users from the ESLint NPM package breach blog post last week, we have deployed new REST APIs to allow administrators of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) accounts to centrally revoke Personal Access Tokens (PAT) and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) created by users in their accounts...