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Visual Studio 2019 Release Candidate (RC) now available

February 28, 2019 Feb 28, 2019 02/28/19
Shikha Kaul
Today we’re sharing a Visual Studio 2019 Release Candidate (RC) – one of the final steps before general availability on April 2 at the virtual launch event. You can download the RC at visualstudio.com/downloads. As always, check out the release notes for the RC for all the details...

Growing the Visual Studio App Center Service Portfolio

February 28, 2019 Feb 28, 2019 02/28/19
Shikha Kaul
As you know, Visual Studio App Center delivers a solid DevOps foundation for your app projects, delivering the cloud services you use build, test and deploy your apps. Many customers use App Center services inside their apps as well, collecting volumes of information from apps running in the wild through our Analytics service and capturing ...

Going Public (With Our Visual Studio App Center Plans)

February 28, 2019 Feb 28, 2019 02/28/19
Shikha Kaul
Throughout Visual Studio App Center’s life, we published a product roadmap and changelog, but we never really felt comfortable talking too far into the future. With so many services and so many things we wanted to do for each, we weren’t confident in what we’d get to and when we’d do it. This is OK, but not great, and our customers ...

How to port desktop applications to .NET Core 3.0

February 28, 2019 Feb 28, 2019 02/28/19
Shikha Kaul
In this post, I will describe how to port a desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core. I picked a WinForms application as an example. Steps for WPF application are similar and I’ll describe what needs to be done different for WPF as we go. I will also show how you can keep using the WinForms designer in Visual Studio even though ...

Quick Tip: Debugging Local ASP.NET Core Web APIs on Android Emulators

February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19
Shikha Kaul
When developing mobile applications with a web API backend there is always a need to debug locally on your development machine. If you are using Visual Studio for Mac and debugging iOS applications you know it is as easy as running your web API locally and using localhost as the URL for web requests. However, this is not the case for Android ...

Use your favorite extensions with Visual Studio 2019

February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19
Shikha Kaul
Do you want to try the preview of Visual Studio 2019 but worry that your favorite extensions aren’t supported yet? A record number of extensions have already added support for Visual Studio 2019. So there is a good chance your favorite extensions are among them. In fact, more than 850 extensions are currently available, and more are being ...

Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access Build 3745

February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19
Shikha Kaul
As we get closer to the final version, our efforts are focused on stabilizing the release over the coming weeks. Please keep up the support by trying out our latest preview 3745 and provide any feedback you may have for the build or for .NET 4.8 overall, via the .NET Framework Early Access GitHub repository...

Announcing TypeScript 3.2

February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19
Shikha Kaul
TypeScript 3.2 is here today! If you’re unfamiliar with TypeScript, it’s a language that brings static type-checking to JavaScript so that you can catch issues before you even run your code – or before you even save your file. It also includes the latest JavaScript features from the ECMAScript standard on older browsers and runtimes ...