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August 2019 - Visual Studio news feed

Xamarin.Forms 4.2.0 Hits GA & CollectionView Updates

August 30, 2019 Aug 30, 2019 08/30/19
Shikha Kaul
Today, we are excited to announce that Xamarin.Forms 4.2.0 is now available in stable. This release continues the 4.0 series with improvements to Shell, community enhancements, performance enhancements, and bug fixes. There are some sweet new enhancements that you can take advantage of right now in 4.2.0...

Get more fresh content on Visual Studio’s YouTube channel

August 30, 2019 Aug 30, 2019 08/30/19
Shikha Kaul
Whether you like short how-to videos or longer deep dives, the Visual Studio YouTube channel has something for you. With fresh content published several times a week, there are always new and interesting videos to help you stay current on everything Visual Studio...

Now available: Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1 RTW

August 30, 2019 Aug 30, 2019 08/30/19
Shikha Kaul
Today, we are announcing the availability of Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1. Azure DevOps Server brings the Azure DevOps experience to self-hosted environments. Customers with strict requirements for compliance can run Azure DevOps Server on-premises and have full control over the underlying infrastructure...

C++ Cross-Platform Development with Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3: vcpkg, CMake configuration, remote headers, and WSL

August 30, 2019 Aug 30, 2019 08/30/19
Shikha Kaul
In Visual Studio 2019 you can target both Windows and Linux from the comfort of a single IDE. Visual Studio’s native support for CMake lets you open any folder containing C++ code and a CMakeLists.txt file directly in Visual Studio to edit, build, and debug your CMake project on Windows, Linux, and the Windows Subsystem for ...

Announcing the general availability of Python support in Azure Functions

August 27, 2019 Aug 27, 2019 08/27/19
Shikha Kaul
Python support for Azure Functions is now generally available and ready to host your production workloads across data science and machine learning, automated resource management, and more. You can now develop Python 3.6 apps to run on the cross-platform, open-source Functions 2.0 runtime. These can be published as code or Docker containers to ...

Find solutions faster by analyzing crash dumps in Visual Studio

August 27, 2019 Aug 27, 2019 08/27/19
Shikha Kaul
When unexpected crashes occur in your managed application you are often left with little evidence of the issue; capturing and analyzing memory dumps may be your last best option. Thankfully Visual Studio is a great tool for analyzing your apps memory dumps! In this post we show you how easy it is to get important insights from a crash dump, ...

.NET Core and systemd

August 27, 2019 Aug 27, 2019 08/27/19
Shikha Kaul
In preview7 a new package was added to the set of packages that enables integration with systemd. For the Windows focused, systemd allows similar functionality to Windows Services, there is a post on how to do what we discuss here for Windows Services in this post. This work was contributed by Tom Deseyn from Red Hat. In this post we will ...

Announcing TypeScript 3.6 RC

August 27, 2019 Aug 27, 2019 08/27/19
Shikha Kaul
Today we’re happy to announce the availability of the release candidate of TypeScript 3.6. This release candidate is intended to be fairly close to the full release, and will stabilize for the next few weeks leading up to our official release...

Productivity Improvements for C++: New Default Colorization, Template Argument Filtering in Call Stack Window, and IntelliCode On-By-Default

August 27, 2019 Aug 27, 2019 08/27/19
Shikha Kaul
In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2 we’ve introduced a new default semantic colorization scheme for C++. For a long time, many of the default colors were simply black. However, colorization can help you quickly understand the structure of code at a glance. To take advantage of this, we’ve created two new color schemes, and of ...