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More Cross-Platform APIs with Xamarin.Essentials Latest Preview

June 29, 2018 Jun 29, 2018 06/29/18
John Powell
We announced Xamarin.Essentials, a core set of cross-platform APIs to help developers build native apps, at Microsoft Build 2018. Xamarin.Essentials gives developers access to over thirty platform-specific APIs that can be accessed from their shared code, including geolocation, secure storage, sensors, device information, and many more. Best ...

Microsoft from GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: New Azure innovations will advance the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge

June 29, 2018 Jun 29, 2018 06/29/18
John Powell
At Microsoft, we’re continually releasing technology that’s inspired by our customers and what you tell us you need to make the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge a reality for your businesses. For example, you may need to build applications to work in remote areas with low connectivity. Or you need to store, access, and drive insights...

Announcing Template IntelliSense (C++)

June 29, 2018 Jun 29, 2018 06/29/18
John Powell
C++ developers using function templates and class templates can now take full advantage of IntelliSense within their template bodies. In Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Preview 3, when your caret is inside a template, a new UI element called a “Template Bar” appears next to the template definition. The Template Bar allows you to provide sample ...

Azure.Source – Volume 37

June 27, 2018 Jun 27, 2018 06/27/18
John Powell
Microsoft deepens its commitment to Apache Hadoop and open source analytics - Last week, Hortonworks hosted the DataWorks Summit in San Jose, California, which is billed as the world’s premier big data community event for everything data. This post provides a rollup of Azure HDInsight info and reflects on the progress made since the start of...

Supercharging the Git Commit Graph (VSTS)

June 27, 2018 Jun 27, 2018 06/27/18
John Powell
Have you ever run and waited a few seconds before the window appears? Have you struggled to visualize your commit history into a sane order of contributions instead of a stream of parallel work? Have you ever run a force-push and waited seconds for Git to give any output? You may be having performance issues due to the number of commits in ...