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Using GitHub Codespaces with .NET Core

Tim HeuerSeptember 22, 2020Sep 22, 202009/22/20

We've updated our support for developing .NET Core applications in GitHub Codespaces using Visual Studio. Read about the added support we have for editors, testing, debugging, and Azure. Sign up to be invited to the preview for GitHub Codespaces and Visual Studio support!

Debug Your .NET Core Apps in WSL 2 with Visual Studio

Nathan CarlsonSeptember 17, 2020Sep 17, 202009/17/20

The .NET Core Debugging with WSL 2 – Preview extension lets run and debug your .NET Core apps in WSL 2 from Visual Studio.

.NET CLI Templates in Visual Studio

Tim HeuerSeptember 2, 2020Sep 2, 202009/2/20

If you are a template author for .NET Core templates and have been wanting to show up for Visual Studio users as well with little effort we have enabled a new preview feature for you! Visual Studio now has an option in preview to enable CLI-installed .NET Core templates to display as options in the New Project Dialog experience.

Using Visual Studio Codespaces with .NET Core

Tim HeuerMay 21, 2020May 21, 202005/21/20

Learn about how we are enabling .NET Core projects for Codespaces when using Visual Studio 2019.

The F# development home on GitHub is now dotnet/fsharp

Phillip CarterMay 20, 2019May 20, 201905/20/19

TL;DR We've moved the F# GitHub repository from microsoft/visualfsharp to dotnet/fsharp, as specified in the corresponding RFC. F# has a somewhat strange history in its name and brand. If we roll back the clocks to the year 2015, F# sort of had two identities. One side of this was Visual F#, or "VisualFSharp"; a product within Visual ...

Visual Studio 2019 .NET productivity

KendraHavensApril 2, 2019Apr 2, 201904/2/19

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 ...

Announcing F# 4.6

Phillip CarterMarch 29, 2019Mar 29, 201903/29/19

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) ...

Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update

Jayme SingletonFebruary 13, 2019Feb 13, 201902/13/19

In the coming days, we’ll be moving our developer blogs to a new platform with a modern, clean design and powerful features that will make it easy for you to discover and share great content. This week, you’ll see the Visual Studio, IoTDev, and Premier Developer blogs move to a new URL – while additional developer blogs will ...

Announcing F# 4.6 Preview

Phillip CarterJanuary 24, 2019Jan 24, 201901/24/19

F# 4.6 is now fully released. See the announcement blog post for more. We're excited to announce that Visual Studio 2019 will ship a new version of F# when it releases: F# 4.6! F# 4.6 is a smaller update to the F# language, making it a "true" point-release. As with previous versions of F#, F# 4.6 was developed entirely via an open RFC (...

.NET Core tooling update for Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2

Phillip CarterJanuary 24, 2019Jan 24, 201901/24/19

Another preview of Visual Studio 2019, another update on the cool stuff going into it! We're pleased to announce some updates to the .NET Core tools for Visual Studio 2019. You can try these changes out starting with Preview 2. We'd love for you to try out these new features and give us feedback. Debugging console apps will use the new ...

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