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We made Windows Server Core container images >40% smaller

December 17, 2019 Dec 17, 2019 12/17/19

Shikha Kaul

Over the past year, we’ve been working with the Windows Server team to make Windows Server Core container images a lot smaller. They are now >40% smaller! The Windows Server team has already published the new images in the Server Core Insider Docker repo, and will eventually publish them to their stable repo with their 20H1 release. You ...

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4

December 17, 2019 Dec 17, 2019 12/17/19

Shikha Kaul

This week, Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 was released with many improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio. This release brings major productivity enhancements including the GA release of XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, smaller Android APKs, tooling to migrate your applications to Android X, and numerous performance and ...

.NET Framework December 2019 Security and Quality Rollup

December 17, 2019 Dec 17, 2019 12/17/19

Shikha Kaul

Today, we are releasing the December 2019 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework...

Modernizing Find in Files

December 17, 2019 Dec 17, 2019 12/17/19

Shikha Kaul

Find in Files is one of the most commonly used features in Visual Studio. It’s also a feature that gets a substantial amount of feedback, and due to the age of the code, has been very costly to improve. Earlier this year, we decided to reimplement the feature from the ground up in order to realize significant performance and usability ...

A Bite-Sized Daily Digest for Crashes in Visual Studio App Center

December 17, 2019 Dec 17, 2019 12/17/19

Shikha Kaul

We’re excited to announce the launch of a daily digest for crashes in Visual Studio App Center! This bite-sized email gives you a single view of your daily activity of new crash groups...