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Mar 12, 2020
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The Performance Benefits of Final Classes

Allison Cordle (Red Door Collaborative LLC)

Marking your classes or member functions as  can improve the performance of your code by giving the compiler more opportunities to resolve virtual calls at compile time. 

Mar 12, 2020
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.NET Garbage Collection Provisional Mode

Allison Cordle (Red Door Collaborative LLC)

PM stands for Provisional Mode which means after a GC starts, it can change its mind about the kind of GC it’s doing. But what does that mean exactly?

Mar 10, 2020
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February ML.NET Model Builder Updates

Allison Cordle (Red Door Collaborative LLC)

ML.NET is a cross-platform, machine learning framework for .NET developers. Model Builder is the UI tooling in Visual Studio that uses Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) to train and consume custom ML.NET models in your .NET apps. Together, you can now create custom machine learning models for scenarios like sentiment analysis, price prediction, a...

Mar 10, 2020
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Custom AI-Assisted IntelliSense for your team (C++)

Allison Cordle (Red Door Collaborative LLC)

In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 3 you can now train custom IntelliCode models on your own codebases. This generates something we call a “Team Completions model,” because you’ll start to get suggestions based on your team’s coding patterns. 

Mar 10, 2020
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5 Things to be Excited About Xamarin.Forms 4.5

Allison Cordle (Red Door Collaborative LLC)

Every new release of Xamarin.Forms contains dozens of improvements. Today, we are thrilled to share that Xamarin.Forms 4.5 is now available bringing you AndroidX, new capabilities for creating responsive UI, and controls “in the box” to speed your development. Let’s look at what is new in Xamarin.Forms 4.5 with several features to get excited about...

Mar 10, 2020
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ASP.NET Core Apps Observability

Allison Cordle (Red Door Collaborative LLC)

Identifying software error and business impact require a monitoring solution with the ability to observe and report how the system and users behave. The collected data must provide the required information to analyze and identify a bad update.

Mar 10, 2020
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AVX2 floating point improvements in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5

Allison Cordle (Red Door Collaborative LLC)

In Visual Studio 2019 We’ve been working hard on optimizing floating point operations with AVX2 instructions. This post will outline work done so far and recent improvements made in version 16.5.

Mar 5, 2020
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The Spring 2020 Roadmap for Visual Studio published

shikhakaul

The Visual Studio roadmap has been updated to provide a peek into the work planned for Visual Studio through June 2020. It captures significant capabilities that we plan to add, but it’s not a comprehensive feature list. Our goal is to clarify what’s coming so you can plan for upgrades and provide feedback on which features would make Visual Studio...

Mar 5, 2020
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AVX-512 Auto-Vectorization in MSVC

shikhakaul

In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 we added AVX-512 support to the auto-vectorizer of the MSVC compiler. This post will show some examples and help you enable it in your projects.