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Azure DevTest Labs: Set access rights to an environment resource group

October 13, 2017 Oct 13, 2017 10/13/17
Vahe Minasyan
Previously, creating or modifying objects within a resource group that contained an environment was not possible because a lab user had only Reader access to that resource group. You can now set Contributor access rights on a resource group that contains your environment, so that you have the flexibility of modifying your environment objects...

Announcing UWP Support for .NET Standard 2.0

October 13, 2017 Oct 13, 2017 10/13/17
Vahe Minasyan
Today, we are releasing huge updates to UWP for .NET developers. The really big improvement is adding support for .NET Standard 2.0. UWP developers now have access to ~ 20k more APIs. This release brings UWP to partity with the other .NET implementations that support .NET Standard 2.0...

Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0

October 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017 10/11/17
Vahe Minasyan
Earlier this year, I wrote about an update to the roadmap for F# and .NET Core. I had mentioned that there were a number of things you could build with F# and .NET Core today, such as web services. In this post, I’ll walk through building a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0 using the Giraffe library...

7 Hidden Gems in Visual Studio 2017

October 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017 10/11/17
Vahe Minasyan
I’ve been working on developer tooling for over 16 years, and I still love it when I find a new tip or trick that shaves seconds off a repetitive task. The set below are features that I see infrequently used but can save loads of time...

Azure Function – CI / CD DevOps Pipeline

October 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017 10/11/17
Vahe Minasyan
In earlier parts of our Function Azure blog post series, we outlined the implementation of different artifacts of our research project on communication between the VSTS and LaunchDarkly with the Azure Function extensions.  In this one we will present how we have implemented continuous integration and deployment of our Azure Functions in Azure...

Time Travel Debugging is now available in WinDbg Preview

October 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017 10/11/17
Vahe Minasyan
We are excited to announce that Time Travel Debugging (TTD) features are now available in the latest version of WinDbg Preview. About a month ago, we released WinDbg Preview, which provides great new debugging user experiences. We are now publicly launching a preview version of TTD for the first time and are looking forward to your feedback...

Get the latest on building the innovative apps of the future right now – at Connect(); // 2017 (Save-the-date)

October 6, 2017 Oct 6, 2017 10/6/17
Vahe Minasyan
The inspiration for our Connect(); event has always been about developers and the innovative applications they create. I am excited to announce our popular and highly anticipated Connect(); 2017 returns Nov. 15-17.  From the earliest days of computing, developers have shaped the future and changed the world. We’re at a critical inflection ...

Welcome to the New Blog Template for ASP.NET Developers

October 6, 2017 Oct 6, 2017 10/6/17
Vahe Minasyan
Have you always wanted to build a blog or other web application but haven’t had the time or educational resources to learn? With our blog template, available in our GitHub repo, you can create your web application fast and effortlessly, and even learn to master the new Razor Pages architecture along the way. This blog post will explore how ...

The Solar System with ARKit and F#

October 6, 2017 Oct 6, 2017 10/6/17
Vahe Minasyan
A few years ago, my colleague Joel Martinez and I wrote a F# program we called “Oculus Thrift” that demonstrated iOS SceneKit in a Google Cardboard stereoscopic viewer. With the recent release of iOS 11, I wanted to see if we could do something similar with ARKit, Apple’s augmented-reality framework. It took just 8 lines of F# code...