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Razor Improvements – Feedback Wanted

July 11, 2018 Jul 11, 2018 07/11/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
Recent releases of Visual Studio 2017 focus greatly on improving the experience of working with Razor. The improvements address the most pressing customer-facing issues like formatting changes and providing general performance and reliability for IntelliSense. Now that the fixes and enhancements are publicly available, we would like to learn more about your experience with the Razor editor.

Workaround for Bower Version Deprecation

July 5, 2018 Jul 5, 2018 07/5/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
As of June 25, the version of Bower shipped with Visual Studio was deprecated, resulting in Bower operations failing when run in Visual Studio. If you use Bower, you will see an error something like: This will be fixed in Visual Studio 15.8. In the meantime, you can work around the issue by using a new version of Bower or by adding some ...

F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7

May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 05/8/18
Phillip Carter
We’re excited to share updates about changes to F# and F# tools which shipped with the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 release. Let’s dive in! Type Providers now support .NET Standard For those who aren’t familiar with Type Providers, they are a feature of F# which allow you to get IntelliSense for data. When pointed at a data source, ...

F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6

March 6, 2018 Mar 6, 2018 03/6/18
Phillip Carter
With the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, we’re excited to share updates to the F# language and core library, F# tooling in Visual Studio, and infrastructure updates that concern OSS contributors. Let’s dive in! F# language and core library updates Some foundational changes for the F# language and core library have been ...

Announcing F# support for .NET Core and .NET Standard projects in Visual Studio

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17
Phillip Carter
We're pleased to announce that Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 4 now supports F# projects targeting .NET Core, .NET Standard, and .NET Framework through the .NET Core SDK. Some of you have noticed various levels of this support in the first, second, and third previews. We still had a few work items left to complete when those were released, so...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Jeffrey Fritz
The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm.  For a full list of updates, you can read the release notes and you can check the list of changed ...

Get Started with F# as a C# developer

July 24, 2017 Jul 24, 2017 07/24/17
Phillip Carter
Get Started with F# as a C# developer One of our previous posts, Why You Should Use F#, listed a few reasons why F# is worth trying out today. In this post, we'll cover some of the basics you need to know to be successful. This post is intended for people who are coming from a C#, Java, or other object-oriented background. The concepts ...

WCF Web Service Reference Provider – Metadata Exchange Endpoint Authentication

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Miguell - MSFT
With the recent update to the WCF Service Reference tool in the VS Marketplace, support has been added for downloading metadata for a web service where the metadata exchange (MEX) endpoint has been secured with IIS authentication. The purpose of MEX endpoints is to allow clients to discover the service capabilities, including security aspects...