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gRPC vs HTTP APIs

November 26, 2019 Nov 26, 2019 11/26/19
Alma Haage (Red Door Collaborative LLC)
ASP.NET Core now enables developers to build gRPC services. gRPC is an opinionated contract-first remote procedure call framework, with a focus on performance and developer productivity. gRPC integrates with ASP.NET Core 3.0, so you can use your existing ASP.NET Core logging, configuration, authentication patterns to build new gRPC services...

Set Environment Variables for Debug, Launch, and Tools with CMake and Open Folder

November 26, 2019 Nov 26, 2019 11/26/19
Alma Haage (Red Door Collaborative LLC)
There are many reasons why you may want to customize environment variables. Many build systems use environment variables to drive behavior; debug targets sometimes need to have PATH customized to ensure their dependencies are found; etc. Visual Studio has a mechanism to customize environment variables for debugging and building CMake projects ...

AI-assisted IntelliSense for your team’s codebase

November 26, 2019 Nov 26, 2019 11/26/19
Alma Haage (Red Door Collaborative LLC)
Visual Studio IntelliCode uses machine learning to offer useful, contextually-rich code completion suggestions as you type, allowing you to learn APIs more quickly and code faster. Although IntelliCode’s base model was trained on over 3000 top open source C# GitHub repositories, it does not include all the custom types in your code base. To ...

Coming to DirectX 12: D3D9On12 and D3D11On12 Resource Interop APIs

November 26, 2019 Nov 26, 2019 11/26/19
Alma Haage (Red Door Collaborative LLC)
D3D is introducing D3D9on12 with resource interop APIs and adding similar resource interop APIs to D3D11on12.  With this new support, callers can now retrieve the underlying D3D12 resource from the D3D11 or D3D9 resource object even when the resource was created with D3D11 or D3D9 API.   The new D3D9On12 API can be found in the insider SDK...

Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v6.0

November 21, 2019 Nov 21, 2019 11/21/19
Alma Haage (Red Door Collaborative LLC)
We’re thrilled to announce today the next update to the Windows Community Toolkit, version 6.0, made possible with help and contributions from our developer community. This release brings ARM64 support to the toolkit as well as an update to XAML Islands for .NET Core 3 support. In addition, we have new features like the EyeDropper control ...

Improvements in .NET Core 3.0 for troubleshooting and monitoring distributed apps

November 21, 2019 Nov 21, 2019 11/21/19
Alma Haage (Red Door Collaborative LLC)
Operating distributed apps is hard. Distributed apps typically consists of multiple components. These components may be owned and operated by different teams. Every interaction with an app results in distributed trace of code executions across many components. If your customer experiences a problem – pinpointing the root cause in one of ...