Azure Managed Applications enable Managed Service Providers (MSP) and Independent Software Vendors (ISV) partners, and enterprise IT teams to deliver fully managed, turnkey cloud solutions that can be made available through the Azure Marketplace or through the enterprise service catalog of a s…

In our continuous efforts to knock down potential customer blockers to leveraging Microsoft Azure’s expanding offerings available in the UK, I am happy to announce that Azure has attained the UK’s…

As a cloud first, mobile first IDE, Visual Studio for Mac is designed to work side by side with Azure. In this post, you’ll create an ASP.NET Core project, edit the site to be unique, and then deploy the project to Azure. To complete this task, make sure your setup meets the following requirements: Visual Studio …

With Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4 now stable and sporting some awesome new features, such as Xamarin Live integration, Android Oreo / iOS 11 support, and a smarter, smaller installation, it’s time to turn our attention to the next version of Visual Studio 2017, version 15.5! This upcoming release is now available as a preview …

Building Resilient Microservices with .NET Core and Steeltoe - Zach Brown & Matt Horan, Pivotal The cloud encourages a set of design principles that, at firs...

In previous posts I’ve talked about how you can now use the legacy SMTPClient class inside .NET to send emails. As commentators on this post have pointed out however, this has now been deprecated and the official documentation actually points you towards a very popular email library called “MailKit“. It’s open source, it’s super extensible, …

There is a great post from Steve Laster in 2016 about optimizing ASP.NET Docker Image sizes. Since then Docker has added multi-stage build files so you can do more in one Dockerfile...which feels like one step even though it's not. Containers are about easy and reliable deployment, and they're also about density. You want to use as little memory as possible, sure, but it also is nice to make them as small as possible so you're not spending time moving them around the network. The size of the image file can also affect startup time for the container. Plus it's just tidy.

Now that you’ve had a chance to augment reality in your Xamarin iOS apps with ARKit, it’s time to explore Google’s take on AR in your Xamarin Android apps. The new ARCore SDK provides APIs for Augmented Reality features, such as motion tracking, plane detection, and light estimation. These are the building blocks you will …

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Visual Studio provides a graphical remote debugging ASP.NET Core app with Docker Tools for Windows. Since Visual Studio supports SSH protocol, you can remote debug ASP.NET Core process running on the Linux host. It used to be if you install and setup SSH server on docker container, you can remote debug with Visual Studio. However, it’s …