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Visual UI Testing for Android Apps with Espresso and Studio App Center

July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18
John Powell
This is a guest post from Daniel Puterman, engineering lead at Applitools. Suppose you’ve built a new Android app and want to build some visual test automation scripts to ensure that it appears correctly on the devices it might run on. Not all the Android devices out there — just the top 20 for now. Suppose further that your app ...

Catch up on Azure in one post: Azure.Source – Volume 40

July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18
John Powell
Highlights New Azure innovation advances customer success for the cloud- and AI-powered future - In preparation for Microsoft Inspire in Las Vegas this week (where partners and Microsoft meet to connect, learn, and collaborate to accelerate the digital transformation and success of our customers), Jason Zander (Executive Vice President, ...

Azure DevOps Projects is now general availability (GA)

July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18
John Powell
During our Connect(); 2017 event, we announced the public preview of Azure DevOps Projects to help customers start running applications on any Azure service in just three steps. Today, we’re excited to announce that Azure DevOps Projects is now generally available in the Azure Portal, making it easier for developers to deploy to the ...

Getting started with Windows IoT & Azure [Video Series]

July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18
John Powell
In the first episode of this series, Dmitry and his guest Suz Hinton introduce Windows IoT Core as a way of building applications for IoT solutions. We cover some foundational topics such as how Windows IoT works, and what it is designed for...

Razor Improvements – Feedback Wanted

July 13, 2018 Jul 13, 2018 07/13/18
John Powell
In recent releases of Visual Studio 2017, there has been a great focus on improving the experience of working with Razor files (*.cshtml). The improvements were aimed at addressing the most pressing customer-facing issues and included changes from formatting and IntelliSense to general performance and reliability. Now that the fixes and ...

.NET Core July 2018 Update

July 13, 2018 Jul 13, 2018 07/13/18
John Powell
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core July 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 1.0.12, .NET Core 1.1.9, .NET Core 2.0.9 and .NET Core 2.1.2...

General availability of user behavior analytics tools in Azure Application Insights

July 13, 2018 Jul 13, 2018 07/13/18
John Powell
At Microsoft Build 2017, we introduced a set of user behavior analytics tools for Application Insights as a preview. Since then, we’ve listened to your feedback, adding additional capabilities and squashing bugs. We’ve also used these user behavior analytics tools on themselves, finding opportunities to improve your experience without ...

Announcing ML.NET 0.3

July 13, 2018 Jul 13, 2018 07/13/18
John Powell
Two months ago, at //Build 2018, we released ML.NET 0.1, a cross-platform, open source machine learning framework for .NET developers. We’ve gotten great feedback so far and would like to thank the community for your engagement as we continue to develop ML.NET together in the open. We are happy to announce the latest version: ML.NET 0.3...

Supercharging the Git Commit Graph III: Generations and Graph Algorithms

July 13, 2018 Jul 13, 2018 07/13/18
John Powell
Earlier, we announced that Git 2.18 contains a new commit-graph feature, and we discussed the commit-graph file format. As shipped in Git 2.18, this file only speeds up commit walks by a constant multiple, due to parsing structured data from the commit-graph file. Today, we continue by talking about how we can use the idea of a generation ...