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Announcing .NET 6 Preview 1
Today, we are happy to deliver the first preview of .NET 6 and share what you can expect from the new release. We have been defining the overall shape of the release for the last few months, including a large set of new experiences and capabilities. The heart of .NET 6 is delivering the final parts of the .NET unification plan that started with .NET 5. The release will also include major improvements across all parts of .NET, including for cloud, desktop, and mobile apps.
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 1
.NET 6 Preview 1 is now available and ready for evaluation. This is the first preview of .NET 6, the next major update to the .NET platform. .NET 6 is expected to ship in November of this year, and will be a Long Term Support (LTS) release.
Announcing TypeScript 4.2 RC
Today we’re excited to announce our Release Candidate of TypeScript 4.2! Between now and the stable release of TypeScript 4.2, we expect no further changes apart from critical bug fixes
Open-source HTTP API packages and tools
We’re continuing our series on building HTTP APIs with .NET 5. In the previous post, we covered Creating Discoverable HTTP APIs with ASP.NET Core 5 Web API. In this post, we’ll go further with a look at using open-source HTTP API packages and tools.
Analyzing Code with Infer#
Want to detect reliability and security bugs before they ship? Matthew Jin and Xiaoyu Liu show Infer#, a static analysis tool you can use to validate the correctness of source code without needing to execute it.
Blizzard Diablo IV debugs Linux core dumps from Visual Studio
Blizzard is using Visual Studio 2019 to debug Linux core dumps on WSL. The following blog post is written by Bill Randolph, a Senior Software Engineer at Blizzard working on the development of Diablo IV.
Improvements to the new Razor editor in Visual Studio
It’s been six months since we announced the first preview of a new experimental Razor editor for Visual Studio based on a common Razor language server and it’s time to give an update on our progress. The team has been hard at work bringing the new Razor editor up to parity with the old one, fixing bugs, and adding lots of great new functionality. We think the new editor is close to being ready for normal daily development, so now is the time to give it a try with the latest Visual Studio preview.
Windows ARM64 support for CMake projects in Visual Studio
In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview 3 we added support for deploying CMake projects to a remote Windows machine and debugging them with the Visual Studio remote tools. CMake developers targeting ARM64 Windows can now cross-compile (with cl or clang-cl), deploy, and debug their projects directly from Visual Studio.
MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview 3
In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview 3 we have continued to improve the C++ backend with new features, new and improved optimizations, build throughput improvements, and better security. Here is a brief list of improvements for you to review.