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Sep 14, 2020
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C++ Coroutines in Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.8

Sachin Thakur
Sachin Thakur

With the adoption of coroutines into the C++ standard in 2019, we are now pleased to announce feature completion of C++20 coroutines in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8.

Sep 14, 2020
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Announcing Entity Framework Core (EFCore) 5.0 RC1

Sachin Thakur
Sachin Thakur

Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the first release candidate (RC1) of EF Core 5.0. This is a feature complete release candidate of EF Core 5.0 and ships with a "go live" license. You are supported using it in production. This is a great opportunity to start using EF Core 5.0 early while there is still time to fix remaining issues. We...

Sep 14, 2020
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Standard C++20 Modules support with MSVC in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8

Sachin Thakur
Sachin Thakur

 We are excited to announce Standard C++20 Modules support with MSVC in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8. The toolset, project system, and IDE teams have been hard at work to create a first class C++ Modules experience in Visual Studio 2019. There is a lot to share, so let’s get right into it:

Sep 14, 2020
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C11 and C17 Standard Support Arriving in MSVC

Sachin Thakur
Sachin Thakur

Our team is happy to announce that C11 and C17 are becoming supported language versions in the MSVC compiler toolset starting with Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3!

Sep 13, 2020
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Announcing .NET 5.0 RC 1

Sachin Thakur
Sachin Thakur

Today, we are shipping .NET 5.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the first of two RCs before the official release in November. RC1 is a “go live” release; you are supported using it in production. At this point, we’re looking for reports of any remaining critical bugs that should be fixed before the final relea...

Sep 3, 2020
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.NET CLI Templates in Visual Studio

Sachin Thakur
Sachin Thakur

Visual Studio has had templates for a long time and .NET Core’s command-line interface (CLI) has also had the ability to install templates and use them via `dotnet new` commands. Starting in Visual Studio 16.8 Preview 2 we’ve enabled a preview feature that you can turn on that enables all templates that are installed via CLI to now show as options ...