MSDN Magazine

Connect(); 2016

Volume 31 Number 12

Visual Studio Development – Productivity Enhancements in Visual Studio 2017 RC

Kasey Uhlenhuth

Explore the new and improved features in Visual Studio 2017 RC, including easier navigation with GoTo and Find All References, enhancements to IntelliSense across C#, VB and XAML, and an expansion of live code analysis. Also covered is Live Unit Testing and improved debugging with the new exception helper.

Visual Studio Development – Introducing Visual Studio for Mac

Mikayla Hutchinson

Mikayla Hutchinson introduces Visual Studio for Mac, outlining the evolution of the Xamarin Studio IDE into a true mobile-first, cloud-first development tool for .NET and C# that brings the Visual Studio experience to the Mac.

.NET Framework - What's New in C# 7.0

Mark Michaelis

The team is now buttoning down development on C# 7.0, and Visual Studio 15 Preview 5 is expected to implement virtually all of the new features. Come along as Mark Michaelis explores each of the new features in detail, including deconstructors, pattern matching with is and switch, local variables, and more.

Connect(); Mobile DevOps - Exploring Visual Studio Mobile Center

Thomas Dohmke

Microsoft is taking Mobile DevOps to the next level with Visual Studio Mobile Center. Connect your repository, then build, test, deliver and monitor your apps all from a single dashboard and connect it with your Azure backend.

Xamarin - Xamarin and the Universal Windows Platform

Tyler Whitney

Use Xamarin to target the Universal Windows Platform and add users and increase engagement with your app and content across your entire app ecosystem, including iOS and Android.

Mobile - Embedding Native Views in Your Xamarin.Forms Apps

Charles Petzold

Native view embedding allows you to directly reference iOS, Android and Windows native controls right in your Xamarin.Forms XAML files. You can assign them properties, handle events, and use them with nearly as much flexibility as the standard Xamarin.Forms controls to improve cross-platform mobile development.

Xamarin Workbooks - The (Interactive) Future of Technical Docs

Craig Dunn

Xamarin Workbooks bring interactive documentation plus live coding to mobile and desktop application development, letting you learn and experiment with the entire native SDKs for Android, iOS, Mac, and WPF. Craig Dunn gets you started.

ALM and DevOps - Secure and Deliver with Rugged DevOps

Jean-Marc Prieur

DevOps is about going fast. Security is about minimizing risks. Rugged DevOps is a set of practices designed to meet both goals more effectively. This article reviews the practices, the partners and how to set CI/CD for Rugged DevOps.

Office - Microsoft Graph: Gateway to Data and Intelligence

Yina Arenas

Yina Arenas dives into Microsoft Graph and how it's used to build smarter and context-aware people-centric applications that use the latest APIs from SharePoint, Exchange, Azure Active Directory and other services in Office 365 and the Microsoft cloud, all under a single endpoint and with a single auth flow.

Intelligent Apps - Big Data Development Made Easy

Omid Afnan

The development model and tools in Azure Data Lake (ADL) radically simplify working with scale-out, distributed queries over non-traditional data. This article shows some of the development and debugging strengths in ADL with U-SQL.

Connect(); Mobile Test - Scale Your Automated Mobile App Testing with Xamarin Test Cloud

Justin Raczak

The mobile ecosystem presents unique challenges to developers and QA professionals with its breadth of mobile devices and OSes. Xamarin Test Cloud makes it simple to scale your local testing to cover hundreds of unique device configurations in just a few minutes.

Connect(); Intelligent Apps - Extensibility in U-SQL Big Data Applications

Michael Rys

Learn how to use U-SQL extensibility mechanisms to process a variety of different data ranging from JSON to image data, along with how to add your own operators.