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Web and Azure Tool Updates in Visual Studio 2019

April 5, 2019 Apr 5, 2019 04/5/19
Angelos Petropoulos
Hopefully by now you’ve seen that [Visual Studio 2019 is now generally available][1]. As you would expect, we’ve added improvements for web and Azure development. As a starting point, Visual Studio 2019 comes with [a new experience for getting started with your code][2] and we updated the experience for creating ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core projects to match:

Making CPU configuration better for GC on machines with > 64 CPUs

April 3, 2019 Apr 3, 2019 04/3/19
maoni
If you are running Windows on a machine with > 64 CPUs, you’ll need to use this feature called the CPU groups for your process to be able to use more than 64 CPUs. At some point in the far distant past, people thought having more than 64 processors on a machine was inconceivable so they used a 64-bit number for the processor mask. And when ...

Visual Studio 2019 .NET productivity

April 2, 2019 Apr 2, 2019 04/2/19
KendraHavens
Your friendly neighborhood .NET productivity team (aka. Roslyn) focuses a lot on improving the .NET coding experience. Sometimes it’s the little refactorings and code fixes that really improve your workflow. You may have seen many improvements in the previews, but for all of you who were eagerly awaiting the GA release here’s a few ...

Handling a new era in the Japanese calendar in .NET

April 2, 2019 Apr 2, 2019 04/2/19
Ron Petrusha (MSFT)
Typically, calendar eras represent long time periods. In the Gregorian calendar, for example, the current era spans (as of this year) 2,019 years. In the Japanese calendar, however, a new era begins with the reign of a new emperor. On April 30, 2019, Emperor Akihito is expected to abdicate, which will bring to an end the Heisei era. On the ...

Announcing F# 4.6

March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019 03/29/19
Phillip Carter
We're excited to announce general availability of F# 4.6 and the F# tools for Visual Studio 2019! In this post, I'll show you how to get started, explain the F# 4.6 feature set, give you an update on the F# tools for Visual Studio, and talk about what we're doing next. F# 4.6 was developed entirely via an open RFC (requests for comments) ...

.NET Core Workers as Windows Services

March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019 03/29/19
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
In .NET Core 3.0 we are introducing a new type of application template called Worker Service. This template is intended to give you a starting point for writing long running services in .NET Core. In this walkthrough we will create a worker and run it as a Windows Service. Create a worker Preview Note: In our preview releases the worker ...

Migrating Delegate.BeginInvoke Calls for .NET Core

March 28, 2019 Mar 28, 2019 03/28/19
Mike Rousos
I recently worked with a couple customers migrating applications to .NET Core that had to make code changes to workaround and methods on delegates not being supported on .NET Core. In this post, we'll look at why these APIs aren't implemented for .NET Core, why their usage isn't caught by the .NET API Portability Analyzer, and how to fix ...

.NET Framework March 2019 Update

March 19, 2019 Mar 19, 2019 03/19/19
Tara Overfield
Today, we released the March 2019 Update. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Getting the Update The Update is available via Windows Server Update Services and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Catalog You can get the update via the Microsoft ...