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A preview of UX and UI changes in Visual Studio 2019

November 14, 2018 Nov 14, 2018 11/14/18
Shikha Kaul
Over the years, we’ve learned that sharing the evolution of Visual Studio, with you – our users – early and often helps us to deliver the best possible experience for our community. We’re excited to share today that, as part of the development of Visual Studio 2019, we’ve been looking to refresh our theme, update our product icon and...

Video: Visual Studio Productivity in 5 minutes!

November 14, 2018 Nov 14, 2018 11/14/18
Shikha Kaul
Check out the latest Visual Studio productivity tips in this 5 minute video! These tips for .NET developers will have you coding C# faster and better than ever before. This video includes a ton of navigation short cuts, codefixes and refactorings, multi-caret, code clean up, and more...

Use the official range-v3 with MSVC 2017 version 15.9

November 14, 2018 Nov 14, 2018 11/14/18
Shikha Kaul
We’re happy to announce that the ongoing conformance work in the MSVC compiler has reached a new milestone: support for Eric Niebler’s range-v3 library. It’s no longer necessary to use the range-v3-vs2015 fork that was introduced for MSVC 2015 Update 3 support; true upstream range-v3 is now usable directly with MSVC 2017...

Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18272 available now!

November 14, 2018 Nov 14, 2018 11/14/18
Shikha Kaul
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 18272 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18272 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area...

Exploring Clang Tooling Part 3: Rewriting Code with clang-tidy (C++)

November 8, 2018 Nov 8, 2018 11/8/18
Shikha Kaul
In the previous post in this series, we used clang-query to examine the Abstract Syntax Tree of a simple source code file. Using clang-query, we can prototype an AST Matcher which we can use in a clang-tidy check to refactor code in bulk. This time, we will complete the rewriting of the source code...

Security fixes for Team Foundation Server

November 8, 2018 Nov 8, 2018 11/8/18
Shikha Kaul
Today, we are releasing a fix for a potential cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This impacts Team Foundation Server 2017 and 2018. We have released patches for TFS 2017 Update 3.1, TFS 2018 Update 1.1, and TFS 2018 Update 3. We have also released TFS 2018 Update 3.1, which is a full install that includes this fix...

Announcing .NET Standard 2.1

November 8, 2018 Nov 8, 2018 11/8/18
Shikha Kaul
Since we shipped .NET Standard 2.0 about a year ago, we’ve shipped two updates to .NET Core 2.1 and are about to release .NET Core 2.2. It’s time to update the standard to include some of the new concepts as well as a number of small improvements that make your life easier across the various implementations of .NET...

XAML Islands – A deep dive – Part 1

November 8, 2018 Nov 8, 2018 11/8/18
Shikha Kaul
XAML Islands is a technology that enables Windows developers to use new pieces of UI from the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) on their existing Win32 Applications, including Windows Forms and WPF technologies. This allows them to gradually modernize their apps at their own pace, making use of their current code as much as they want...

Move your first steps with .NET Core 3.0 for desktop development

November 8, 2018 Nov 8, 2018 11/8/18
Shikha Kaul
If you're into development in the Microsoft ecosystem, I'm sure you're familiar with .NET Core. It's a new framework, built from scratch, to bring all the goodies of the .NET Framework into the new modern world. Unlike the full .NET Framework, which has its roots deeply integrated into Windows, .NET Core is cross-platform, lightweight and ...