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Monitoring and Observability in Cloud-Native ASP.NET Core apps

March 31, 2021 Mar 31, 2021 03/31/21
Sachin Thakur
Distributed applications are complex and bring in their own set of challenges for developers to debug and fix production issues. Though the microservices architecture helps maintain a smaller team that works autonomously and focuses on separate business domains, it introduces newer challenges due to its distributed nature. In this post, we ...

Announcing .NET 6 Preview 2

March 15, 2021 Mar 15, 2021 03/15/21
Sachin Thakur
Today, we are glad to release .NET 6 Preview 2. It includes new APIs, runtime performance improvements, and early builds of .NET MAUI. It also includes builds for Apple Silicon, which were missing for Preview 1...

Address Sanitizer for MSVC Now Generally Available

March 9, 2021 Mar 9, 2021 03/9/21
Sachin Thakur
We’re thrilled to announce that as of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9, the C++ Address Sanitizer (ASan) for MSVC experience is fully supported. Thanks to all who tried it out while it was experimental in earlier versions of the IDE and filed issues to help make this release all-the-better...

.NET Core 2.1 will reach End of Support on August 21, 2021

March 9, 2021 Mar 9, 2021 03/9/21
Sachin Thakur
.NET Core 2.1 will be reaching end of support on August 21, 2021. After this date, Microsoft will no longer provide updates (which includes security fixes) or technical support for this version. You’ll need to update the version of .NET Core you’re using to a supported version (.NET Core 3.1 or .NET 5.0) before this date in order to ...

Introducing the .NET Upgrade Assistant Preview

March 3, 2021 Mar 3, 2021 03/3/21
Sachin Thakur
Today we’re excited to introduce a tool we’ve been working on to help you upgrade your .NET Framework-based applications to .NET 5 called the .NET Upgrade Assistant. The .NET Upgrade Assistant is a .NET global command-line tool that gives you a guided experience for incrementally upgrading your applications. Currently in preview, the .NET...

New Dynamic Instrumentation Profiling for .NET in Visual Studio 2019

March 3, 2021 Mar 3, 2021 03/3/21
Sachin Thakur
With the release of version 16.9 of Visual Studio, instrumentation profiling in Visual Studio just got better. Introducing our new dynamic instrumentation tool. This tool shows the exact number of times your functions are called and is faster than our previous static instrumentation tool. It also supports .NET Core instrumentation without ...