In this post we are going to use Visual Studio Team Services to automate the build and deployment task of an ASP.NET Core Web application to Azure. What is Visual Studio Team Services? Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provide a fast and easy way to plan, build and ship software across a variety of platforms. Whether you work in the cloud, ...

So, like I wrote in my previous ''Day 1'' post, Silverlight was the main focus of the keynote, and MIX07 altogether.  I was going to write some more about it, but I read this blog post @ TechCrunch, that began like this (copied from the post): The announcements around Microsoft’s new Silverlight platform yesterday were important to anyone ...

The last line of my previous blog post mentioned a link where you can find a VSTS information goldmine! A number of people pointed out that information this significant needs to be in a post of its own, so here's a list of things you can find in our new, prescriptive guidance for VSTS (repost from J.D. Meier's Blog): Explained: Branching in Team ...

I receive about 200 e-mails a day. Some are discussion threads from several internal distribution lists I monitor, others are stuff people need from me or replies to my e-mails, and some are internal announcements – sometimes confidential. I received one of those on Sunday, and I've been itching to blog about all this time, but I couldn't… ...