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May 25, 2021
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ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 4

Sachin Thakur

.NET 6 Preview 4 is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core.

May 25, 2021
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Announcing .NET 6 Preview 4

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.

May 21, 2021
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All vcpkg enterprise features now generally available

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.

May 18, 2021
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The Visual Studio family welcomes you at Microsoft Build 2021

Sachin Thakur

Come join us at Microsoft Build, our largest developer conference, to explore what’s new in tech. This year, Build will be kicking off at 8:00 AM Pacific Time on Tuesday, May 25, 2021 (see in your time zone).You can expect an event packed with exciting product announcements, live keynotes, breakout sessions with cool demos, and Q&A with experts from different product teams, available across multiple time zones.

May 10, 2021
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Finding Bugs with AddressSanitizer: Patterns from Open Source Projects

Sachin Thakur

AddressSanitizer (ASan) was officially released in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9. We recently used this feature to find and fix a bug in the MSVC compiler itself. To further validate the usefulness of our ASan implementation, we also used it on a collection of widely used open-source projects where it found bugs in Boost, Azure IoT C SDK, and OpenSSL. In this article, we present our findings by describing the type of bugs that we found and how they presented themselves in these projects.

Apr 19, 2021
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Announcing Visual Studio 2022

Sachin Thakur

Read all about the vision for the recently-announced Visual Studio 2022. It will be feature-rich and full of improvements that make you a happier developer. And did we mention it's 64-bit?

Apr 15, 2021
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Enhanced Productivity with Git in Visual Studio

Sachin Thakur

We continue to enhance the Git experience in Visual Studio and are excited to announce some long-awaited updates in version 16.10 Preview 2. You can download the latest Preview and run it right alongside your main release, leaving your production installation undisturbed.

Apr 15, 2021
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Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 Preview 2 Releases Today

Sachin Thakur

We are excited to announce the release of Visual Studio v16.10 preview 2. This release continues a theme of developer productivity and convenience. We’ve added C++20 ranges, IntelliSense completions, and new features for testing, Docker tooling enhancements, and Git integration!

Apr 9, 2021
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Announcing .NET 6 Preview 3

Sachin Thakur

Today, we are delighted to release .NET 6 Preview 3. This release is dedicated almost entirely to low-level performance features. These are the types of improvements that many folks don’t necessarily always fully appreciate, but they help a lot for many apps. Most of these improvements apply to the CLR type system directly, either making it function faster or better interplay with modern CPUs (think “hardware accelerate the type system”).