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February 2018 - Visual Studio news feed

Your guide to Azure services for apps built with Xamarin

February 28, 2018 Feb 28, 2018 02/28/18
App Center Team
When talking about app development today, the cloud is almost always part of the conversation. While many developers have an idea of the benefits that cloud can offer them – scalability, ready-to-use functionality, and security, to name a few – it’s sometimes hard to figure out where to start for the specific scenario you have in mind. ...

File nesting in Visual Studio Solution Explorer

February 28, 2018 Feb 28, 2018 02/28/18
App Center Team
We are excited to share with you a new capability in Visual Studio that was a clear ask from you, the community. Visual Studio has been nesting related files in Solution Explorer for a long time now, but not everybody agrees with the rules it uses. That’s not a problem any more because Visual Studio now gives you complete control over file ...

Two Lesser Known Tools for Local Azure Development using Visual Studio

February 28, 2018 Feb 28, 2018 02/28/18
App Center Team
If you’re developing applications that target Azure services (e.g. Web Apps, Functions, Storage), you’ll want to know about two powerful tools that come with Visual Studio 2017 and the Azure development workload: •Cloud Explorer is a tool window inside Visual Studio that lets you browse your Azure resources and perform specific tasks...

The February release of SQL Operations Studio is now available

February 23, 2018 Feb 23, 2018 02/23/18
App Center Team
We are excited to announce the February release of SQL Operations Studio is now available. Download SQL Operations Studio and review the Release Notes to get started. SQL Operations Studio is a data management tool that enables you to work with SQL Server, Azure SQL DB and SQL DW from Windows, macOS and Linux. To learn more, visit our GitHub...

Diagnosing Errors on your .NET Cloud Apps

February 23, 2018 Feb 23, 2018 02/23/18
App Center Team
One of the most frustrating experiences is when you have your app working on your local machine, but when you publish it it’s inexplicably failing. Fortunately, Visual Studio provides handy features for working with apps running in Azure. In this blog I’ll show you how to leverage the capabilities of Cloud Explorer to diagnose issues in ...

Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2018 Update 1 RTM is now available

February 23, 2018 Feb 23, 2018 02/23/18
App Center Team
Today we released the final build of Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 1. The key links are: •TFS 2018.1 Release notes •TFS 2018.1 Web installer •TFS 2018.1 ISO image •TFS 2018.1 Express edition Web installer •TFS 2018.1 Express edition ISO image This release is primarily bug fixes for important issues and a few select features. ...

Looking for Buddybuild Alternatives? Try App Center

February 23, 2018 Feb 23, 2018 02/23/18
App Center Team
With Buddybuild dropping Android support in March, we'd love for you to explore Visual Studio App Center as an option for your new home if you're one of the many Android developers searching for an alternative cloud-based Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) service. Built for all developers and backed by Microsoft, we have a...

Vcpkg: introducing installation options with Feature Packages (C++ team blog)

February 23, 2018 Feb 23, 2018 02/23/18
App Center Team
We are happy to announce a new feature for vcpkg in version 0.0.103: Feature Packages. Vcpkg is a package manager to help acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows; vcpkg currently offers over 600 C++ libraries available for VS2017 and VS2015. With Feature Packages you have more control over how you build a library as you can ...