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Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 5

June 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021 06/17/21
Sachin Thakur
While we are still recovering from Microsoft Build and .NET 6 Preview 4, we are here to share our continued progress with .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) with .NET 6 Preview 5. In this release we have enabled animations and view transformations, completed the porting of several UI components, and introduced improvements to the single ...

Learn What’s New in .NET Productivity

June 14, 2021 Jun 14, 2021 06/14/21
Sachin Thakur
The .NET Productivity team (aka. Roslyn) continues to enhance your developer productivity with the latest tooling updates in Visual Studio 2019. In the last release, we listened to your feedback and have been hard at work improving the .NET developer experience. To try out the latest .NET productivity enhancements download the latest Visual...

Build apps for Microsoft Teams with .NET in Visual Studio

June 14, 2021 Jun 14, 2021 06/14/21
Sachin Thakur
We recently announced updates to the Teams Toolkit – a streamlined way to create, debug, and deploy apps to Microsoft Teams. In this post, we’re taking a closer look at how to get started developing a new Microsoft Teams app with .NET and Blazor using the Teams Toolkit extension for Visual Studio 2019 that’s in early Preview...

Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 and v16.11 Preview 1 are Available Today

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21
Sachin Thakur
We are excited to announce the release of Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 GA and v16.11 preview 1. This release makes our theme of developer productivity and convenience Generally Available to Visual Studio users! We’ve added C++20 features, improved Git integration, improved profiling tools, and a host of features that accelerate productivity...

Introducing the .NET Hot Reload experience for editing code at runtime

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21
Sachin Thakur
Today, we are excited to introduce you to the availability of the .NET Hot Reload experience in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (Preview 1) and through the dotnet watch command-line tooling in .NET 6 (Preview 4). In the rest of this blog post, we’d like this opportunity to walk you through what is .NET Hot Reload, how you can get started ...

Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 4

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21
Sachin Thakur
Today we are pleased to announce the availability of .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) Preview 4. Each preview introduces more controls and features to this multi-platform toolkit on our way to general availability this November at .NET Conf. .NET MAUI now has enough building blocks to build functional applications for all supported ...

Announcing .NET 6 Preview 4

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21
Sachin Thakur
We are delighted to release .NET 6 Preview 4. We’re now about half-way through the .NET 6 release. It’s a good moment to look again at the full scope of .NET 6, much like the first preview post. Many features are in close-to-final form and others will come soon now that the foundational building blocks are in place for the release...

All vcpkg enterprise features now generally available

May 21, 2021 May 21, 2021 05/21/21
Sachin Thakur
We are announcing the general availability of vcpkg versioning and registries, which, combined with our earlier release of manifests and binary caching, comprise our solution for vcpkg in the enterprise space. These features are free and are now on by default in the tool, no longer requiring feature flags to be manually turned on to opt in...