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Microsoft Pre-Build update: Developer innovation with Windows Server 2019 and Azure

May 4, 2018 May 4, 2018 05/4/18

App Center Team

Enterprises are adopting digital transformation to engage end users, offer competitive products, empower their employees, and improve operations. To drive this transformation, developers need a modern platform that helps them deliver innovation at the rate of changing business demands. With Windows Server 2016 we started on a journey to ...

Load solutions faster with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6

May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 05/2/18

App Center Team

As we have been working to improve the solution load experience in Visual Studio 2017, you may have read our blog about these improvements in version 15.5. With version 15.6, we have introduced parallel project load, which loads large .NET solutions twice as fast as earlier versions when you reload the same solution. During the first load of...

What’s new in VSTS Sprint 132 Update

May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 05/2/18

App Center Team

The Sprint 132 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts and includes several features to help you scale your build and release pipeline. If you have multiple, dependent teams in your organization working on large products, check out the new build completion trigger. It allows you to chain two related builds ...

How Windows, Windows Store, Xbox & Surface streamlined their planning and centralized on VSTS (Video)

May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 05/2/18

App Center Team

Spectre mitigation changes in Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 3

May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 05/2/18

App Center Team

With Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 3 we have two new features to announce with regards to our Spectre mitigations. First, the /Qspectre switch is now supported regardless of the selected optimization level. Second, we have provided Spectre-mitigated implementations of the Microsoft Visual C++ libraries. Complete details are ...

Intelligent Edge: Building a Skin Cancer Prediction App with Azure Machine Learning, CoreML & Xamarin

May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 05/2/18

App Center Team

AI has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces behind digital transformation and it is revolutionizing the way we live and work. AI-powered experiences are augmenting human capabilities and transforming how we live, work, and play – and they have enormous potential in allowing us to lead healthier lives as well. AI is empowering ...

New Microsoft Azure regions available for Australia and New Zealand

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18

App Center Team

Two new Microsoft Azure regions in Australia are available to customers, making Microsoft the only global provider to deliver cloud services specifically designed to address the requirements of the Australian and New Zealand governments and critical national infrastructure, including banks, utilities, transport and telecommunications. We ...

Azure.Source – Volume 28

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18

App Center Team

Last week, we made several Azure Security announcements in conjunction with RSA Conference 2018 in San Francisco: •Introducing Microsoft Azure Sphere: Secure and power the intelligent edge - Microsoft Azure Sphere is a new solution for creating highly-secured, Internet-connected microcontroller (MCU) devices. Azure Sphere includes three ...

Essential tools and services for building mobile apps

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18

App Center Team

This blog post was co-authored by Rajen Kishna, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure Marketing – App Development. Azure, Visual Studio, Xamarin, and Visual Studio App Center give you the flexible, yet robust tools and services to build, test, deploy, and continuously improve Android and iOS apps that your users will love. Use your ...

New Xamarin.Forms XAML IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2017

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18

App Center Team

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 previews are now available, featuring significant improvements to the XAML experience for mobile developers. The Xamarin.Forms XAML editing experience is now powered by the same IntelliSense engine that powers WPF and UWP. This brings several enhancements to developers, including improved matching, binding/...