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What’s new in .NET Productivity

Mika Dumont November 18, 2020 Nov 18, 2020 11/18/20

Learn about the latest .NET Productivity features!

Using GitHub Codespaces with .NET Core

Tim Heuer September 22, 2020 Sep 22, 2020 09/22/20

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 Carlson September 17, 2020 Sep 17, 2020 09/17/20

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 Heuer September 2, 2020 Sep 2, 2020 09/2/20

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 Heuer May 21, 2020 May 21, 2020 05/21/20

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 Carter May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 05/20/19

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

KendraHavens April 2, 2019 Apr 2, 2019 04/2/19

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 Carter March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019 03/29/19

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 Singleton February 13, 2019 Feb 13, 2019 02/13/19

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 Carter January 24, 2019 Jan 24, 2019 01/24/19

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 (...

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