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October 2020 - Visual Studio news feed

The Future of Visual Studio Extensions

October 29, 2020 Oct 29, 2020 10/29/20
Sachin Thakur
With new improvements and additions such as GitHub Codespaces, Git Integrations, and IntelliCode Team Completions, Visual Studio has expanded to make development easier, more customizable, and accessible from any machine.  As we continue evolving Visual Studio, what about extensions?!  While still early in the design phase, we are creating...

Announcing Version 1.0 of .NET for Apache Spark

October 28, 2020 Oct 28, 2020 10/28/20
Sachin Thakur
Today, we announce the release of version 1.0 of .NET for Apache® Spark™, an open source package that brings .NET development to the Apache® Spark™ platform. This release is possible due to the combined efforts of Microsoft and the open source community. Version 1.0 includes support for .NET applications targeting .NET Standard 2.0...

gRPC performance improvements in .NET 5

October 28, 2020 Oct 28, 2020 10/28/20
Sachin Thakur
gRPC is a modern open source remote procedure call framework. There are many exciting features in gRPC: real-time streaming, end-to-end code generation, and great cross-platform support to name a few. The most exciting to me, and consistently mentioned by developers who are interested in gRPC, is performance...

Get more done with search in Visual Studio

October 28, 2020 Oct 28, 2020 10/28/20
Sachin Thakur
Over the years, the Search feature in Visual Studio has gotten faster and more capable. You might have missed some of the things it can do to help you be more productive and get the most out of Visual Studio. So, let’s take a closer look at how you can use Search in your daily work...

ASP.NET Core Series: PWA’s with Blazor

October 15, 2020 Oct 15, 2020 10/15/20
Sachin Thakur
Progressive Web Applications (PWA) use modern browser APIs and capabilities to behave like a desktop app. Since Blazor WebAssembly is a standards-based client-side web app platform,  developers have the ability to leverage these browser APIs and create PWAs using .NET...

Introducing .NET Live TV – Daily Developer Live Streams

October 15, 2020 Oct 15, 2020 10/15/20
Sachin Thakur
Today, we are launching .NET Live TV, your one stop shop for all .NET and Visual Studio live streams across Twitch and YouTube. We are always looking for new ways to bring great content to the developer community and innovate in ways to interact with you in real-time. Live streaming gives us the opportunity to deliver more content where ...

Announcing advanced Azure Machine Learning nanodegree program with Udacity

October 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020 10/13/20
Sachin Thakur
Earlier this year, we empowered over 10,000 students from all over the world to learn the basics of machine learning over the course of four months. We are excited to announce the next stage of skilling with the availability of an advanced machine learning nanodegree on Udacity. Starting today, students can enroll for the Machine Learning ...

Announcing .NET 5.0 RC 2

October 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020 10/13/20
Sachin Thakur
Today, we are shipping .NET 5.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2). It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the last of two RCs before the official release in November. RC2 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 ...

Introducing the new Azure SDK for C++ Beta

October 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020 10/13/20
Sachin Thakur
The Azure SDK team is pleased to announce their first beta release of the new Azure SDK for C++. Unlike the previous Azure Storage specific SDK, the new Azure SDK for C++ is idiomatic to the C++ language and ensures consistency in behavior and API surface when communicating with multiple Azure services. This initial beta supports Azure Blob ...