Microsoft Decode 2014

Just sharing few of the really exciting announcements made in Microsoft Decode Tech day 2014 yesterday. But first, I can’t really resist without bragging how good the event was and some of the best sessions from few great people like Brian Cox etc. People missed who registered with me but didn’t attend. Their loss!

Right, anyways, back to the real world. It was announced in the morning itself that there will be few very important announcements from Microsoft in the evening so please don’t leave J  and turned out to be worth waiting for.  (Stretching a little bit right?)

Ok…so first announcement:-

 Microsoft has open-sourced the full server side .net core stack for developer community. This means, people can contribute to it now and the open source will be expanded to non-Microsoft operating systems as well like Linux & Mac. Cool right.. .net code running on Linux & Mac J

Second one, (this is going to please expense managers of projects as few less licenses)

A full fletched version of Visual Studio called Visual Studio Community 2013 has been launched for free. There is a huge difference between Visual Studio Express and this community version. It is basically a full version of Visual Studio with no restriction or a very few I may add. Well Microsoft never gives anything for free but the idea behind this move is they want to make Visual Studio as a gateway to other products and technologies of Microsoft. Good move but right now I am only looking at free version of Visual Studio J

Third one…..although this was bit of a surprise!

A preview version of Visual Studio 2015 and .Net has been launched. Well you might wonder the same thing I am doing which is what happened to Visual Studio 2014 beta which was released few months back. No idea…may be it is another thing like Windows 10 after 8 :D

And last but not the least…..

Visual Studio online Release management has been launched as a service (although currently in preview). Not sure how many of you are aware of this tool but this tool was launched by Microsoft after acquiring one company called InRelease. This is one of the products from Microsoft for managing your different release environments and automating the entire process with pre-defined workflows.

Although like any other release management tool, it wasn’t easy to configure. I was following the configuration manual and in the end realized that the current version of VSRM can’t connect to VSO but only TFS server. Disappointments!!!

But not for long, now this feature is available as a service which means no hassle, they will manage everything for you and you can only pay the subscription. That always reminds me of my postpaid connection J Easy

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That was all for announcements. I also attended the DevOps technical sessions completely. (Before you think, let me clear this out that I am still into Development and has no plans to move into operations team but has attended this as this is the area we need to improve on for the client I am currently working for). Learned some great deal of information there and will try to share that soon as well. But as a tip, learn Powershell if you haven’t started yet J

That is for now….hopefully I will get some time soon to share more with you.