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A significant update to the XAML Designer

September 11, 2017 Sep 11, 2017 09/11/17
Visual Studio Blog
The XAML designers in Visual Studio and Blend have been powerful tools for developers and designers alike to build beautiful user experiences for Windows applications. Initially designed for WPF development in 2007, we have made significant changes to support a wide variety of XAML platforms over the last decade. We’ve also added new ...

New Xamarin University Webinar: Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks

September 11, 2017 Sep 11, 2017 09/11/17
Visual Studio Blog
Join me on Thursday, September 21 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 4 pm UTC for my “Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks” webinar, where I’ll combine my love of graphics programming with my passion for helping developers build better apps. Whether you’re just getting started or an experienced developer, you’ll learn how to use your ....

Create a CI/CD pipeline to Azure Service Fabric

August 30, 2017 Aug 30, 2017 08/30/17
Ahmed Metwally
At //BUILD 2017, we shipped an update to the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio. This update has support for configuring a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline for ASP.NET Core projects with container support to an existing Azure Service Fabric cluster directly from Visual Studio 2017. To configure continuous ...

Create a CI/CD pipeline for containerized ASP.NET Core projects

August 22, 2017 Aug 22, 2017 08/22/17
Ahmed Metwally
We are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It would be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes. Thanks! At //BUILD 2017, we shipped an update to the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio with support for configuring a Continuous Integration and ...

Committing with Confidence: Commit Time Code Quality Information Updated

August 21, 2017 Aug 21, 2017 08/21/17
Mark Wilson-Thomas
We are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It would be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes. Thanks! In the earlier post “Committing with Confidence: Getting Code Quality Information at Commit Time” , we introduced the new Build and Code ...

New Xamarin University Webinar: Take your desktop .NET skills mobile

August 16, 2017 Aug 16, 2017 08/16/17
Visual Studio Blog
We are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It would be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes. Thanks! Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin gives you everything you need to build amazing native mobile apps for Android, iOS, and UWP – and Xamarin ...