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vcpkg is now cross platform and support Linux MacOS and Windows

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18
App Center Team
At Microsoft, the core of our vision is “Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform” and we are committed to bringing you the most productive development tools and services to build your apps across all platforms. With this in mind, we are thrilled to announce today the availability of vcpkg on Linux and MacOS. This gives you immediate access to...

Xamarin Joins docs.microsoft.com

April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18
App Center Team
Today we’re beginning a new chapter in mobile developer documentation: Xamarin docs are now live on docs.microsoft.com/xamarin! Here are a few highlights of the new documentation experience: Xamarin Docs Hub All our documentation options are a click or two away from docs.microsoft.com/xamarin. Click Xamarin in the header to return there ...

App Center Errors: Monitoring and Keeping Your Xamarin Apps Healthy

April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18
App Center Team
Building and shipping a successful app is a challenge. Monitoring and keeping your app healthy is even more challenging and time-consuming. Once you ship your app into the wild, unexpected errors often occur as real users start engaging with it; staying on top of them is crucial to the success of your app and business. As a developer, you ...

Announcing CodeLens for C++ Unit Testing

April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18
App Center Team
C++ developers in Visual Studio can now get their first taste of CodeLens! Specifically, Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Preview 3 Professional and Enterprise editions offer CodeLens for Unit Testing. There are a few ways to initialize CodeLens: •Edit and Build your test project/solution •Rebuild your project/solution •Run test(s) from the Test...

Announcing .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2

April 20, 2018 Apr 20, 2018 04/20/18
App Center Team
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2. The release is now ready for broad testing, as we get closer to a final build within the next two to three months. We’d appreciate any feedback that you have. ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 and Entity Framework 2.1 Preview 2 are also releasing today. You can download and get started with .NET ...

Create Service Fabric Clusters from Visual Studio now available

April 20, 2018 Apr 20, 2018 04/20/18
App Center Team
We heard feedback that the current processes for creating secure clusters were complex and time-consuming. Based on your input, we've added the ability to create secure clusters directly from Visual Studio. This update shipped with the latest release of the Service Fabric tooling for Visual Studio 2015 and with Visual Studio 2017 as part of ...

Private audience: A new way to test your apps and games in production (Windows)

April 20, 2018 Apr 20, 2018 04/20/18
App Center Team
One of the consistent themes that the Dev Center Team hears from the Windows developer community is that first impressions are important. Before launching a new app or game, it’s important to validate that the experience is working perfectly in production. At the same time, many developers may have disclosure concerns and want to control the...

Sequence Intent Classification Using Hierarchical Attention Networks

April 20, 2018 Apr 20, 2018 04/20/18
App Center Team
In this code story, we will discuss applications of Hierarchical Attention Neural Networks for sequence classification. In particular, we will use our work the domain of malware detection and classification as a sample application. Malware, or malicious software, refers to harmful computer programs such as viruses, ransomware, spyware, adware...