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The week in .NET – On .NET on Docker and new Core tooling, Benchmark.NET, Magicka

February 10, 2017 Feb 10, 2017 02/10/17

Vahe Minasyan

In this week’s episode, we’re running ASP.NET in a Docker image, and we look at some of the changes in the .NET Core .csproj tooling. Apologies to those of you who watched live: we had some technical difficulties, and as a consequence, we did a second recording, which is now on Channel 9...

Join Us: Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event and 20th Anniversary

February 10, 2017 Feb 10, 2017 02/10/17

Vahe Minasyan

Twenty-five years ago, I started my first day at Microsoft as a developer on the Access team, and then as a developer on a newly created product – Visual InterDev. I remember how the emphasis was on the Visual part of our various product offerings, we have come a long way to the Visual Studio we have now...

Announcing .NET Core Tools Updates in VS 2017 RC

February 9, 2017 Feb 9, 2017 02/9/17

Vahe Minasyan

Today, we are releasing updates to the .NET Core SDK, included in Visual Studio 2017 RC. You can also install the .NET Core SDK for use with Visual Studio Code or at the command line, on Windows, Mac and Linux. Check out the Visual Studio blog to learn more about this Visual Studio 2017 update...

Another Update to Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

February 9, 2017 Feb 9, 2017 02/9/17

Vahe Minasyan

Thank you for taking time to try out Visual Studio 2017 RC and sharing all your feedback. Today we have another update to Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate which mostly contains bug fixes. Take a look at the Visual Studio 2017 Release Notes and Known Issues for the full list of what’s changed with this update...

Continuous Delivery Tools Extension for Visual Studio 2017

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17

Vahe Minasyan

DevOps is all about getting your applications into customers’ hands quickly. The Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio is a new extension for Visual Studio 2017 that brings DevOps capabilities to the IDE. You can use the extension to setup an automated build, test, and release pipeline on Visual Studio Team Services, for an ASP.NET 4 ...

New in Azure Stream Analytics: Geospatial functions, Custom code and lots more!

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17

Vahe Minasyan

Today, we are pleased to announce the roll-out of several compelling capabilities in Azure Stream Analytics. These include native support for geospatial functions, custom code with JavaScript, low latency dashboarding with Power BI and preview of Visual Studio integration and  ...

JSON data in clustered column store indexes

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17

Vahe Minasyan

Clustered column store indexes (CCI) in SQL Server vNext and Azure SQL Database support LOB types like NVARCHAR(MAX), which allows you to store string with any size, including JSON documents with any size. With CCI you can get 3x compression and query speedup compared to regular tables without any application or query rewrites. In this post we...

Integrating In-App Purchases in Mobile Apps

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17

Vahe Minasyan

Developers often need to integrate monetization to generate revenue when developing mobile apps. There are several ways to monetize apps, but at some point you may want to introduce In-App Purchases, or IAPs, into your app. IAPs can be used...

The week in .NET – On .NET on public speaking, ndepend, CrazyCore, The Perils of Man

February 3, 2017 Feb 3, 2017 02/3/17

Vahe Minasyan

This week, we announced updates to .NET Core, .NET Native, NuGet, and VS 2017 RC. Check out the posts for all the details...

January 2017 Update for ASP.NET Core 1.1

February 3, 2017 Feb 3, 2017 02/3/17

Vahe Minasyan

We just released an update for ASP.NET Core 1.1 due to Microsoft Security Advisory 4010983. The advisory is for a vulnerability in ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1.0 that could allow denial of service. All of the information you need is in the advisory. A short summary is provided below...