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Catch up on Azure in one post: Azure.Source – Volume 41

July 25, 2018 Jul 25, 2018 07/25/18
John Powell
Now in preview Azure Service Fabric Mesh is now in public preview - Azure Service Fabric Mesh is a fully-managed service that enables developers to deploy and operate containerized applications without having to manage VMs, storage or networking configuration, while keeping the enterprise-grade reliability, scalability, and mission-critical ...

Windows UI Library Preview released!

July 25, 2018 Jul 25, 2018 07/25/18
John Powell
We’re excited to announce the first preview release of the Windows UI Library! The Windows UI Library (or WinUI for short) is a new way to get and use Fluent controls and styles for building Windows 10 UWP apps: via NuGet packages...

Advisory on July 2018 .NET Framework Updates

July 25, 2018 Jul 25, 2018 07/25/18
John Powell
The July 2018 Security and Quality Rollup updates for .NET Framework was released earlier this month. We have received multiple customer reports of applications that fail to start or don’t run correctly after installing the July 2018 update. These reports are specific to applications that initialize a COM component and run with restricted ...

Protecting our users from the ESLint NPM package breach

July 24, 2018 Jul 24, 2018 07/24/18
John Powell
On the 12th of July 2018, malicious code was detected in two popular open-source NPM packages, eslint-scope (version 3.7.2) and eslint-config-eslint (version 5.0.2). As a result, developers who downloaded and installed these packages may have had credentials stored in their .npmrc file compromised. This may include credentials required to ...

Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3632

July 24, 2018 Jul 24, 2018 07/24/18
John Powell
We released the first Early Access build for the .NET Framework 4.8 last month (June-2018) and are happy to announce the next build (3632) for your feedback. This is one of the in-development builds of the next version of the .NET Framework and includes incremental fixes from the last build (3621...

Xamarin.Forms 3.1: Improving the Little Things

July 20, 2018 Jul 20, 2018 07/20/18
John Powell
Earlier this year, we surveyed Xamarin.Forms developers about the kinds of custom controls and extra platform code being written repeatedly that should be considered for support “in the box”. From these conversations, we created an initiative to deliver as many as we could in the next several releases. Just six weeks after shipping Xamarin...

Visual Studio IntelliCode now infers coding conventions for consistent code

July 20, 2018 Jul 20, 2018 07/20/18
John Powell
Following the initial announcement of Visual Studio IntelliCode at Build 2018, we’re excited to report that the Visual Studio IntelliCode Extension has been updated to enable coding convention inference for C#, to help you and your team achieve more readable and consistent code. If you’re new to the Intellicode extension, it already ...

Azure Service Fabric Mesh tools now available for Visual Studio 2017

July 20, 2018 Jul 20, 2018 07/20/18
John Powell
Azure Service Fabric is a market-tested distributed systems platform for running scalable and reliable applications on microservices and containers. Up until now, Service Fabric required you to create and manage the clusters and their nodes using virtual machine scale sets. With today’s announcement of Azure Service Fabric Mesh, you’ll be ...

Exploring Azure App Service – Azure Diagnostics

July 20, 2018 Jul 20, 2018 07/20/18
John Powell
If you’ve followed our previous posts about using Azure App Service to host web apps in the cloud (1. Introduction to App Service, 2. Hosting web apps that use SQL) you’re already familiar with how easy it is to get an app running in the cloud; but what if the app doesn’t work correctly (it’s crashing, running too slow, etc.)?  In ...

Supercharging the Git Commit Graph IV: Bloom Filters

July 20, 2018 Jul 20, 2018 07/20/18
John Powell
We’ve been discussing the commit-graph feature in Git 2.18 and how we can use generation numbers to accelerate commit walks. One area where we can get significant speedup is when presenting output in topological order. This allows us to walk a much smaller list of commits than before. One place where this breaks down is when we apply a ...