Build a Cross Platform Video Chat App with Xamarin and Vidyo.io

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Earlier this year, we announced the acquisition of Simplygon, a leader in 3D model optimization based in southern Sweden. As we continue our journey to bring the benefits of mixed reality to everyone, Simplygon is an important accelerant that makes it easier, faster, and cheaper to develop in 3D. Introducing Simplygon Cloud Today, I am …

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In this webinar, we will show the benefits of using DevExpress Object-Relational Mapping Library - the eXpress Persistent Objects - with .NET Core 2. The presentation will quickly cover the basics for

Five RESTFul Web Design Patterns Implemented in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Part 2: HATEOAS

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Today, we’re releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 into stable. This release includes many improvements for mobile developers, including enhancements to XAML editing, the Xamarin Live Player, File -> New Project, and our Mac pairing mechanism. We’ve also made our Remoted iOS Simulator feature available in all editions of Visual Studio, including the free Community …

Benchmarking Your .NET Core Code With BenchmarkDotNet - Dot Net Core Tutorials

Benchmarking your code can take on many forms. On some level Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions such as New Relic can sometimes be considered live benchmarking tools if you are using A/B testing. All the way down to wrapping a stopwatch object around your code and running it inside a loop. This article will be …

Introduction .NET Core A Cross-Platform Runtime Explain .NET Core 2.0 ? .NET Core Vs .NET Framework

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ASP.NET Core Kestrel: Adventures in building a fast web server - Damian Edwards & David Fowler

How does ASP.NET Core manage to be more than 20x faster than ASP.NET? A large part of it is thanks to the brand new cross-platform .NET web server

Deploying ASP.NET Core Applications from Bitbucket to Azure

Deployment of a website is boring and errorprone. Azure offers a very simple way to deploy websites directly from your code repository.

Microsoft, SAP Deepen Their Cloud Collaboration With S/4 HANA on Azure

Microsoft will soon host SAP S/4HANA on Azure while SAP plans to shift internal business systems to Microsoft's cloud.

.NET Core: To Port or Not to Port? -- Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft cautions that not all projects are good candidates for moving off .NET Framework to .NET Core, which is optimized for building highly scalable Web applications running on Windows, macOS or Linux.

Azure: building applications using Azure Service Fabric and ASP.NET Core | E100

Join us to learn how you can build microservice applications with .NET Core and Azure Service Fabric. We will cover key capabilities and concepts that enable...

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Hear about the future of AI, why OpenAI chose Azure as its primary cloud platform, and new Azure innovations

OpenAI chose Microsoft due to our deep learning research and ongoing commitment to AI along with the company's open policy to research, Azure's support for open source technologies and it's unique com

F# Now Targets .NET Core Projects in Visual Studio -- Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft's F# functional programming language now lets Visual Studio coders target .NET Core and .NET Standard projects.

Moving From Node.js To ASP.NET Core

In late 2014 I made the decision to leave ASP.NET behind and give Node.js a try. Fast forward two years and I am back in my beloved .NET environment but still developing on macOS and able to host on Linux.

Ranges planned for C# 7.3 - GitHub

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Rider 2017.3 Early Access Program is open - .NET Tools Blog

We have just started up another Rider pre-release cycle: please feel free to download Rider 2017.3 EAP! The first EAP build contains the following new features and bugfixes: New project templates. Heaps of UI improvements in the Unit Tests window. … Continue reading →

Interview: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich on the intersection between serverless and edge computing

For Microsoft Azure, 2017 will probably be remembered as the year of serverless and edge computing; the two concepts have made their way into just about every appearance by one of its executives and…

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