Visual Studio App Center

#1

Post by vdepizzol » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 3:54 PM UTC

Re: Visual Studio App Center

#2

Post by keithba » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 4:22 PM UTC

Hi! We are very proud of what we've built here. Regardless of how you built your app (Swift, Java, React Native, Xamarin), we offer CI, releasing to your beta users and the app stores, Crash reporting, analytics, and even push messaging. Let us know your thoughts!

Re: Visual Studio App Center

#3

Post by rkachowski » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 4:33 PM UTC

Why does my IDE need an app store?

Re: Visual Studio App Center

#4

Post by Ciantic » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 4:33 PM UTC

Superficially looking at this, how does this differ from Azure? I know it seems to support more, but it also clearly re-invents same things as in Azure.

Edit: Looking again, this is for native apps only?

Re: Visual Studio App Center

#5

Post by MyDamnUser » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 4:34 PM UTC

Is it possible to opt out of it somehow?

Re: Visual Studio App Center

#6

Post by keithba » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 4:36 PM UTC

rkachowski wrote: post #3

Why does my IDE need an app store?

Good question! The "Visual Studio" brand is our brand for many of our developer tools.

App Center isn't part of the Visual Studio IDE. It's a Web-hosted service for app developers providing CI/CD, testing, and many other services.

Re: Visual Studio App Center

#7

Post by keithba » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 4:38 PM UTC

Ciantic wrote: post #4

Superficially looking at this, how does this differ from Azure? I know it seems to support more, but it also clearly re-invents same things as in Azure. Edit: Looking again, this is for native apps only?

App Center and Azure work together.

Azure provides services for powering application and services (including compute, containers, storage, databases.)

App Center is focused on many of the lifecycle services (like CI, Crash reporting, distributing to beta testers and stores, etc).

Re: Visual Studio App Center

#8

Post by g051051 » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 4:39 PM UTC

MyDamnUser wrote: post #5

Is it possible to opt out of it somehow?

Opt out of what? It's a service you subscribe to.

Re: Visual Studio App Center

#9

Post by MyDamnUser » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 4:46 PM UTC

g051051 wrote: post #8

MyDamnUser wrote: post #5

Is it possible to opt out of it somehow?

Opt out of what? It's a service you subscribe to.

Seems like i was too quick out of the gate, my bad.

Re: Visual Studio App Center

#10

Post by stult » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 4:57 PM UTC

keithba wrote: post #2

Hi! We are very proud of what we've built here. Regardless of how you built your app (Swift, Java, React Native, Xamarin), we offer CI, releasing to your beta users and the app stores, Crash reporting, analytics, and even push messaging. Let us know your thoughts!

Will the App Center support WPF once the HockeyApp transition is complete? Or if it won't, what will the timing be for the HockeyApp WPF support ending? I've got a desktop beta out right now, with some users on Windows 10 and many still on Windows 7 (unfortunately). The W7 users are using a WPF version of the beta.

I guess losing the HockeyApp integration just means we'll lose crash reporting analytics from the Windows 7 users because HockeyApp only partially supports WPF as is. That isn't the end of the world as we are slowly rolling out Windows 10 firm-wide right now, but it would be nice to know the timing for planning purposes.