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Learn about the latest .NET Productivity features

July 29, 2020 Jul 29, 2020 07/29/20

Sachin Thakur

The .NET Productivity team (a.k.a. Roslyn) is constantly thinking of new ways to make .NET developers more productive. We’ve been working hard to take the feedback you’ve sent us and turn it into tools that you want! In this post, I’ll cover some of the latest .NET productivity features available in Visual Studio 2019...

Three reasons to migrate your ASP.NET apps and SQL Server data to Azure

July 29, 2020 Jul 29, 2020 07/29/20

Sachin Thakur

Here are three ways you’ll benefit from migrating your ASP.NET apps and SQL Server data to Azure...

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 7

July 22, 2020 Jul 22, 2020 07/22/20

Sachin Thakur

ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 5 Preview 7

July 22, 2020 Jul 22, 2020 07/22/20

Sachin Thakur

Exciting new updates to the Git experience in Visual Studio

July 22, 2020 Jul 22, 2020 07/22/20

Sachin Thakur

New experimental Razor editor for Visual Studio

July 22, 2020 Jul 22, 2020 07/22/20

Sachin Thakur

Mastering Multilingual in Xamarin.Forms

July 22, 2020 Jul 22, 2020 07/22/20

Sachin Thakur

Performance Improvements in .NET 5

July 13, 2020 Jul 13, 2020 07/13/20

Sachin Thakur

.NET 5 has already seen a wealth of performance improvements, and even though it’s not scheduled for final release until this fall and there’s very likely to be a lot more improvements that find their way in by then. learn about a bunch of the improvements that are already available now...

C++ Linux development with Visual Studio: incremental build improvements and expanded shell support

July 13, 2020 Jul 13, 2020 07/13/20

Sachin Thakur

Visual Studio 2019 allows C++ developers to target both Windows and Linux (including the Windows Subsystem for Linux) from the comfort of a single IDE. Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 Preview 3 introduces two features specific to Linux development: improved build incrementality for MSBuild-based Linux projects, and support for a wider range of...

Improving the authentication experience for enterprises leveraging Conditional Access policies

July 13, 2020 Jul 13, 2020 07/13/20

Sachin Thakur

As part of the Visual Studio 2019 16.6 update, we’ve introduced a set of new capabilities to improve your overall authentication experience. While these changes benefit all Visual Studio users, they are especially helpful if you need to work across Azure AD tenants that have enabled multi-factor authentication (MFA) policies...