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Announcing TypeScript 3.9 RC

April 30, 2020 Apr 30, 2020 04/30/20
shikhakaul
Today we’re announcing the availability of TypeScript 3.9 RC, the release candidate of TypeScript 3.9. Between now and the final release, we expect no further changes apart from critical bug fixes...

Exception Helper – Rethrown Exceptions

April 30, 2020 Apr 30, 2020 04/30/20
shikhakaul
Ever had a bug in an async method that caused an exception? Been frustrated that the debugger doesn’t show you where that exception happened? Or been frustrated when looking at an exception that has an inner exception, but the debugger doesn’t easily show you where that exception was from? Starting from the Visual Studio 2019 16.5 release...

Work flow of diagnosing memory performance issues – Part 2

April 30, 2020 Apr 30, 2020 04/30/20
shikhakaul
In this blog post I’ll talk a bit about how to spend time wisely and then continue with the analysis. Originally I was going to delve deeper into the GCStats view but I actually just debugged a long suspension issue that I wanted to share 'cause it shows some general ideas of what to do when you hit problems during an analysis. You can skip...

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 3

April 28, 2020 Apr 28, 2020 04/28/20
shikhakaul
Today, we’re releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 3. It contains a set of new features and performance improvements. We’re continuing to work on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release. The .NET 5.0 Preview 1 post covers what we are planning on building for .NET 5.0. Please take a look at the post and the dotnet/designs repository ...

Xamarin.Essentials: Now with Permissions, App Theme, & Authentication

April 28, 2020 Apr 28, 2020 04/28/20
shikhakaul
Since the first release of Xamarin.Essentials, developers have enjoyed the simplification of complex native features into a single cross-platform library. They can do this across iOS, Android, UWP, Tizen, watchOS, and even tvOS! No matter what type of app you are writing, there is absolutely something in Xamarin.Essentials for you. With the ...

Creating and Packaging a .NET Standard library

April 28, 2020 Apr 28, 2020 04/28/20
shikhakaul
In this post we will cover how you can create a .NET Standard library and then share that with other developers via NuGet. We will be demonstrating this with Visual Studio for Mac, but you can also follow along with Visual Studio, or Visual Studio Code when using the dotnet CLI. If you are on macOS, and haven’t already download Visual ...