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Address Sanitizer for MSVC Now Generally Available
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
.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 continue to receive updates
Introducing the .NET Upgrade Assistant Preview
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 Upgrade Assistant determines which projects need to be upgraded and recommends the order they should be upgraded in. The tool automates more tasks in the upgrade process that you would normally do manually like upgrading to the new SDK-style project format, re-targeting them to ...
New Dynamic Instrumentation Profiling for .NET in Visual Studio 2019
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 needing PDBs
F# and F# tools update for Visual Studio 16.9
We’re excited to announce updates to the F# tools for Visual Studio 16.9. Since the F# 5 release last November, we’ve been hard at work to improve the F# tools experience in Visual Studio.
Frictionless repeated edits: IntelliCode suggestions in completion list
Now, in Visual Studio 16.9 you can easily apply suggestions in a frictionless way all without breaking your editing flow. You can find IntelliCode suggestions right in your IntelliSense completion list, and can find and apply the same change at other locations
Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 and v16.10 Preview 1 are Available Today!
Visual Studio team is eager to release Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 and v16.10 Preview 1. We hope you enjoy the new features highlighted from some of teams such as C++, .NET Productivity, Address Sanitizer, XAML Tooling, and IntelliCode teams. In addition, Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 is our next long-term servicing release
Tune in for .NET Conf: Focus on Windows, February 25th
The .NET Conf team is bringing you another “.NET Conf: Focus” event Thursday, February 25 all about building Windows desktop apps. We have finalized the agenda, speakers, and hosts that will make the day educational and fun. We have .NET and Windows team members along with community speakers and MVPs to show you some amazing things you can do.
Generating HTTP API clients using Visual Studio Connected Services
We’re continuing our series on building HTTP APIs with .NET 5. In the first post in this series we talked about building well-described APIs using OpenAPI, and then followed that up taking a deeper dive into some of the open-source tools and packages you can use to make your HTTP API development easier. In this post, the third in the series, we’ll talk about how Visual Studio Connected Services gives you a convenient way of generating .NET clients for your HTTP APIs so your .NET apps can use the APIs via the Internet.