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.NET CLI Templates in Visual Studio

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

Introducing “Web Live Preview”

June 11, 2020 Jun 11, 2020 06/11/20
Tim Heuer
If you work on any type of app that has a user interface (UI) you probably have experienced that inner-loop development cycle of making a change, compile and run the app, see the change wasn’t what you wanted, stop debugging, then re-run the cycle again. Depending on the frameworks or technology you use, there are options to improve this ...

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

May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 05/20/19
Phillip Carter
TL;DR We've moved the F# GitHub repository from microsoft/visualfsharp to dotnet/fsharp, as specified in the corresponding RFC. (image) 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 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 ...

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) ...