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Azure.Source – Volume 36

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18
App Center Team
Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management in public preview - Both Blob-Level Tiering and Archive Storage help you optimize storage performance and cost. Blob-Level Tiering enables you to transition blobs between the Hot, Cool, and Archive tiers without moving data between accounts. In response to customer feedback, you can now automate blob ...

Getting Started with Microsoft’s Python Developer Tools

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18
App Center Team
Microsoft’s teams have been working over the last few years to bring Python developer tools to the Azure cloud and our most popular developer tools: Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Python is one of the fastest growing languages, with both beginner and expert developers taking to it. What makes it attractive is its easy-to-learn ...

Queries Hub Updates Generally Available

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18
App Center Team
The New Queries Hub streamlines many of the existing features from the old hub and provides new capabilities to make it easier to get to the queries that are important to you. It is now generally available for VSTS customers and coming to TFS in the next major version...

Windows Template Studio 2.2 released!

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18
App Center Team
We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 2.2! For the next few releases, we are doing smaller updates to add in new pages and fixes. The reason being is we are working toward multi-project solution support for 3.0 and adjusting our templates to support that. This is a large sum of work but want to be sure we are ...

Using .NET and Docker Together – DockerCon 2018 Update

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18
App Center Team
I posted about Using .NET and Docker Together last year. With DockerCon 2018 being this week, it seemed like a great time to give you an update. Since my last post, we’ve enabled a set of Docker workflows with guidance and samples for .NET Core and .NET Framework, for development, CI/CD, and production. We also offer many more images for ...

Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17686 available now!

June 19, 2018 Jun 19, 2018 06/19/18
App Center Team
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17686 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17686 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from developer section on Windows Insider. For feedback and ...

SmartHotel360 Microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service

June 19, 2018 Jun 19, 2018 06/19/18
App Center Team
During the Build 2018 keynote, Scott Hanselman, with help from Scott Guthrie, showed developers the new features available in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Dev Spaces. To help you learn how to deploy microservices written in any framework to AKS we've updated the SmartHotel360 back-end microservices source code and deployment ...

What’s new in VSTS Sprint 134 Update

June 19, 2018 Jun 19, 2018 06/19/18
App Center Team
The Sprint 134 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts. In this Update we continue to increase the breadth of services offered in Azure DevOps Projects to enable you to get started quickly. The (newly renamed) Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), a fully managed Kubernetes container orchestration service, Azure ...

VSTS and GitHub

June 19, 2018 Jun 19, 2018 06/19/18
App Center Team
Today, Satya announced the exciting news – our intent to acquire GitHub! GitHub and Microsoft have been partnering on several levels for years. Specifically, the VSTS team has worked closely with GitHub on Git at a technical level and on other open source projects such as libgit2, GVFS, and Git LFS. It’s been a great partnership, one ...