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Welcome to C# 7.2 and Span

November 21, 2017 Nov 21, 2017 11/21/17
App Center Team
C# 7.2 is the latest point release of C#, and adds a number of small but useful features. All the features are described in wonderful detail in the docs. Start with the overview, What’s new in C# 7.2, which gives you an excellent introduction to the new set of capabilities. It is worth celebrating that a significant portion of the docs are ...

Introducing Azure DevOps Project

November 21, 2017 Nov 21, 2017 11/21/17
App Center Team
We are happy to announce the public preview of Azure DevOps Project. Azure DevOps Project helps you launch an app on an Azure App Service of your choice in a few quick steps and set you up with everything you need for developing, deploying, and monitoring your app...

Cloud-hosted Mac agents for CI/CD pipelines

November 21, 2017 Nov 21, 2017 11/21/17
App Center Team
Teams developing software for Apple devices have limited options when migrating to the cloud. Because such apps must be built on Macs, and because there are few cloud-hosted Mac offerings, many teams are forced to provide their own Mac hardware for CI/CD while the rest of their DevOps are hosted in the cloud. This adds cost, maintenance, and ...

Xamarin Developer Events in November

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
App Center Team
The Xamarin and .Net mobile developer community is growing like never before and with so many new events upcoming, there is more opportunity than ever to learn about new and exciting releases, tooling, and updates on Xamarin and related technologies. Network with your local developer community while discussing this month’s ranging topics ...

Application Insights: VSTS dashboard chart widget now available

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
App Center Team
Yes, you read that correctly. We have just released an Application Insights chart widget for VSTS dashboards! It's ok, you can go ahead and say it, this has been a long time coming. We heard all of the fans from our previous metric widget very clearly that this was something almost everyone wanted. But for quite awhile we also had other, even...

Publish to Azure from Visual Studio for Mac

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
App Center Team
As a cloud first, mobile first IDE, Visual Studio for Mac is designed to work side by side with Azure. In this post, you’ll create an ASP.NET Core project, edit the site to be unique, and then deploy the project to Azure...

Monitoring Team Foundation Server 2018

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
App Center Team
Monitoring on-premises Team Foundation Server deployments is an important part of keeping them running smoothly, especially for large enterprise deployments. Good monitoring can help administrators avoid issues before they impact end users, as well as react quickly when user impacts do occur...

Visual Studio IDE extensions now published and managed at Marketplace

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
App Center Team
Consumers of Visual Studio IDE extensions visit Visual Studio Marketplace to discover and acquire extensions. But extension publishers visit Visual Studio Gallery to publish and manage their Visual Studio IDE extensions. Henceforth, extension publishing and management will also be in Marketplace. In this process, all extensions in Gallery will...

Publishing a Web App to an Azure VM from Visual Studio

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
App Center Team
We know virtual machines (VMs) are one of the most popular places to run apps in Azure, but publishing to a VM from Visual Studio has been a tricky experience for some. So, we’re pleased to announce that in Visual Studio 15.5 (get the preview now) we’ve added some improvements to the experience. In this post, we’ll discussed the ...