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GC Perf Infrastructure – Part 0

September 12, 2019 Sep 12, 2019 09/12/19

Shikha Kaul

In this blog entry and some future ones I will be showing off functionalities that our new GC perf infrastructure provides. Andy and I have been working on it (he did all the work; I merely played the consultant role). We will be open sourcing it soon and I wanted to give you some examples of using it and you can add these to your repertoire ...

C++20 Concepts Are Here in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3

September 12, 2019 Sep 12, 2019 09/12/19

Shikha Kaul

C++20 Concepts are now supported for the first time in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2. This includes both the compiler and standard library support...

HockeyApp Transition to Visual Studio App Center – August Update

September 12, 2019 Sep 12, 2019 09/12/19

Shikha Kaul

Visual Studio App Center is closing important feature gaps as HockeyApp is transitioning to App Center later this year. See what we’ve been working on in August and learn more about what we’ve committed to on our roadmap...

Refactoring made easy with IntelliCode!

September 12, 2019 Sep 12, 2019 09/12/19

Shikha Kaul

Have you ever found yourself refactoring your code and making the same or similar changes in multiple locations? Maybe you thought about making a regular expression so you could search and replace, but the effort to do that was too great? Eventually you probably resigned yourself to the time-intensive, error prone task of going through the ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 9 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 9

September 12, 2019 Sep 12, 2019 09/12/19

Shikha Kaul

The Preview 9 versions of the EF Core 3.0 package and the EF 6.3 package are now available for download from nuget.org...

Boost Performance with Compiled Bindings in Xamarin.Forms

September 10, 2019 Sep 10, 2019 09/10/19

Shikha Kaul

Data binding is at the core of every Xamarin.Forms application. It enabled developers to easily bridge their user interface with their code behind form a simple markup. Data binding also simplifies user interactions and updates to the user interface automatigical! With all this awesome comes with some trade-offs. Xamarin.Forms has to analyze ...

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9

September 10, 2019 Sep 10, 2019 09/10/19

Shikha Kaul

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 9 is now available and it contains a number of improvements and updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor...

Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9

September 10, 2019 Sep 10, 2019 09/10/19

Shikha Kaul

Today, we’re announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9. Just like with Preview 8, we’ve focused on polishing .NET Core 3.0 for a final release and aren’t adding new features. If these final builds seem less exciting than earlier previews, that’s by design...

.NET Framework August 30, 2019 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1903

September 10, 2019 Sep 10, 2019 09/10/19

Shikha Kaul

The August 2019 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 on Windows 10 version 1903 was released...

Hardware Intrinsics in .NET Core

September 10, 2019 Sep 10, 2019 09/10/19

Shikha Kaul

Several years ago, we decided that it was time to support SIMD code in .NET. We introduced the System.Numerics namespace with , , , , and related types. These types expose a general-purpose API for creating, accessing, and operating on them using hardware vector instructions (when available). They also provide a software fallback for when...