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.NET Core September 2017 Update — macOS High Sierra Support

September 29, 2017 Sep 29, 2017 09/29/17
Vahe Minasyan
We released .NET Core updates for macOS High Sierra Support and additional quality fixes. You can download and install the update for Windows, macOS and Linux. This update is for .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1. The initial .NET Core 2.0 release includes similar improvements, so is not being updated with this release...

End-to-end monitoring solutions in Azure for Apps and Infrastructure

September 27, 2017 Sep 27, 2017 09/27/17
Vahe Minasyan
Today at the Ignite 2017 conference in Florida, we announced a range of new monitoring and analytics capabilities in Azure bringing together application and infrastructure monitoring in a unified curated overview in Azure Monitor. We are significantly optimizing your experience with the new log analytics, metrics exploration, application ...

.NET Framework 4.7.1 Accessibility and WPF Improvements

September 27, 2017 Sep 27, 2017 09/27/17
Vahe Minasyan
This post describes the new WPF and accessibility features and improvements in .NET Framework 4.7.1. You can try out these features by downloading the Developer Pack, described in the Welcome to the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access blog post...

Introducing Azure Availability Zones for resiliency and high availability

September 27, 2017 Sep 27, 2017 09/27/17
Vahe Minasyan
As part of our commitment to providing customers with a platform for their most demanding, mission-critical workloads, I’m excited to announce expanded capabilities for Microsoft’s global cloud infrastructure. Starting today, customers can begin using Azure Availability Zones in preview to build highly available applications. Availability ...

Source Control Showcase: Integrating Subversion and Perforce into Visual Studio 2017

September 27, 2017 Sep 27, 2017 09/27/17
Vahe Minasyan
Last year, we highlighted the new extensibility points for our source control providers. These hooks allowed them to take advantage of our start page and status bar to provide their users a more integrated experience in Visual Studio. Two of our partners, VisualSVN and Perforce, have taken advantage of this opportunity and we’re excited to ...

TFS 2018 RC2 is available

September 27, 2017 Sep 27, 2017 09/27/17
Vahe Minasyan
Today we shipped the second release candidate for Team Foundation Server 2018. If all goes well, this should be the final release candidate. We’ll make sure that all the issues you report are addressed and we’ll ship the final version in a couple of months. From the release notes, you can see TFS 2018 has tons of new features. RC2 adds to ...

DevOps sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2017

September 25, 2017 Sep 25, 2017 09/25/17
Vahe Minasyan
Microsoft Ignite is happening next week in Orlando, and we are really excited to be there! Microsoft Ignite is an IT Professional and Developer conference that happens yearly, with over 700+ sessions, insights, roadmaps and live demos from the products you use every day. The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) team will be there and you don’t...

Microsoft Video Indexer expands functionality unlocking more video insights

September 22, 2017 Sep 22, 2017 09/22/17
Vahe Minasyan
In May 2017, we announced the global public preview of the Video Indexer service at the Microsoft Build Developers Conference in Seattle. As part of Microsoft Cognitive Services, Video Indexer was introduced as a unique integrated bundling of Microsoft's cloud-based artificial intelligence and cognitive capabilities applied specifically for ...

Visual Studio Team Services is in Canada!

September 22, 2017 Sep 22, 2017 09/22/17
Vahe Minasyan
In 2014, we set a goal to make Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) a global service. This is driven by our commitment to provide our customers around the world great performance and compliance with local data sovereignty requirements. Between 2014 and 2016 we announced VSTS instances in Europe, Australia, India, and Brazil. Along the way we ...