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Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18990 available now!

October 3, 2019 Oct 3, 2019 10/3/19

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 18990 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18990 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area...

Announcing TypeScript 3.7 Beta

October 3, 2019 Oct 3, 2019 10/3/19

Shikha Kaul

We’re pleased to announce TypeScript 3.7 Beta, a feature-complete version of TypeScript 3.7. Between now and the final release, we’ll be fixing bugs and further improving performance and stability...

C++20’s Conditionally Explicit Constructors

October 3, 2019 Oct 3, 2019 10/3/19

Shikha Kaul

is a C++20 feature for simplifying the implementation of generic types and improving compile-time performance...

Introducing .NET Core Windows Forms Designer Preview 1

October 3, 2019 Oct 3, 2019 10/3/19

Shikha Kaul

We just released a GA version of .NET Core 3.0 that includes support for Windows Forms and WPF. And along with that release we’re happy to announce the first preview version of the Windows Forms Designer for .NET Core projects...

Windows 10 WinRT API Packs released

October 1, 2019 Oct 1, 2019 10/1/19

Shikha Kaul

With the announcement of the release of .NET Core 3.0, we are pleased to announce we have posted on nuget.org the released versions of the Windows 10 WinRT API Pack. The Windows 10 WinRT API Pack allows your WPF or Winforms application to quickly and easily access Windows functionality like Geolocation, Windows AI, Machine Learning, Bluetooth ...

.NET Framework September 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup

October 1, 2019 Oct 1, 2019 10/1/19

Shikha Kaul

We have released the September 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup and Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework for Windows 10...

Android 10.0 General Availability

October 1, 2019 Oct 1, 2019 10/1/19

Shikha Kaul

Android 10.0 introduces many features such as dark mode, live captions, foldable phone support, new wi-fi and connectivity APIs, and much more...

Azure DevOps Demo Generator is now open source

October 1, 2019 Oct 1, 2019 10/1/19

Shikha Kaul

The Azure DevOps Demo Generator is a community operated service which can provision template-based projects inside your Azure DevOps organization. It was originally created for Microsoft as an educational resource supporting the Azure DevOps Labs. Although it started as a way populate lab projects, it has evolved to support integrations with ...

Watch the latest Visual Studio extensibility videos

October 1, 2019 Oct 1, 2019 10/1/19

Shikha Kaul

We have been posting several short videos about Visual Studio extensibility to our YouTube channel in the past couple of months. We chose the topics for the first videos, but now it’s time for you to tell us what videos to record next...