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Microsoft Announces 64-Bit Visual Studio 2022
Microsoft has announced that the forthcoming Visual 2022 will finally be 64-bit. VS2022 will have full support for the upcoming .NET 6, C++20, ASP.NET Blazor, and .NET MAUI. The first preview release of VS2022 is scheduled for third quarter 2021.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of April 12th, 2021
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of new Visual Studio previews (Windows and Mac), updates to .NET Core 3.1 and 2.1, new releases from the Azure team, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of April 12th, 2021.
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.NET 6: Async Improvements
Among the over 100 API changes in .NET 6 are several features designed to make working with asynchronous code easier and safer. These include new WaitAsync methods, reusable CancellationTokenSource, and execution context management.
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.NET 6: Date and Time Structures
A long-standing problem with .NET’s Base Class Library is the inability to separately represent date and time values. As part of .NET 6, the new DateOnly and TimeOnly classes seek to correct this oversight.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of April 5th, 2021
The last week was an eventful one for the .NET community, with multiple releases from Microsoft - including the third preview for .NET 6, ASP.NET Core, MAUI, and EF Core 6. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of April 5th, 2021.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of March 29th, 2021
The last week of March was pretty intense in the .NET community, with the release of Project Reunion 0.5, Dapr 1.1, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 29th, 2021.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of March 22th, 2021
This past week was marked by the online streaming of Cloud Builders Conf and the release of Unity 2020 LTS. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 22th, 2021.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of March 15th, 2021
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of the new Azure SDK, multiple Akka.NET plugins, and the streaming of Include 2021, a digital event host by Microsoft focused on diversity and inclusion. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 15th, 2021.
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Visual Basic 16.9 in .NET 5
Since the The .NET Language Strategy was published in 2017, the general belief in the .NET community was that Visual Basic was effectively a dead language. But Microsoft has been quietly working on extending the life of the language.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of Mar 8th, 2021
The last week was an eventful one for the .NET community, with the release of the second preview for .NET 6, ASP.NET Core, and EF Core 6. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 8th, 2021.
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Microsoft Releases Project Reunion 0.5 Preview
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Project Reunion 0.5 Preview, a set of developer components and tools that unifies access to existing Win32 and UWP APIs under a single API layer, decoupled from the operating system. The new release also includes the first stable release of WinUI 3, the newest version of the native UI platform for Windows 10.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of Mar 1st, 2021
InfoQ examines a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 1st, 2021.
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OpenTelemetry Specification Reaches 1.0 with Stability Guarantees and New Release Candidates
The OpenTelemetry specification has been promoted to v1.0.0. This milestone includes improved stability and backwards compatibility guarantees, as well as API and SDK release candidates available for a number of languages. With this release, both the tracing API and the tracing SDK are considered stable.
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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2019 for Mac v8.9
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 version 8.9 for Mac. The new release includes support for .NET 6 Preview 1 and testing Unity applications. It also contains improvements such as more accessible UIs, solution filtering, a new native XML editor, and support for the Apple M1 chip via the Rosetta 2 translation layer.
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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2019 v16.9
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 for Windows. The new release contains multiple improvements to .NET and Git productivity features, along with updated C++, XAML, and F# tools, new memory dump analyzers, and a new dynamic instrumentation profiling tool for .NET.