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.NET Upgrade Assistant Extension for Visual Studio Now Available
The .NET Upgrade Assistant is a Microsoft tool that helps developers upgrade their .NET Framework apps to .NET 5 or later by analyzing code and dependencies, generating a report of issues, and providing code fixes. A new available extension makes it possible to update any .NET application to the most recent .NET version within Visual Studio.
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Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 3 Build Acceleration
Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 3, released January 18th, brings the new build acceleration opt-in feature to Visual Studio. Build times are improved for all SDK-style projects. Larger projects in particular will see greater improvements in build times. Build acceleration works by avoiding excess calls to MSBuild when building a dependent project.
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VMware Tanzu Application Platform Adds Buildpack Improvements and Application Limits
VMware released a number of new features for the Tanzu Application Platform and the Tanzu Application Service. Tanzu Application Platform provides a multi-cloud platform that runs on Kubernetes. Tanzu Application Service is a delivery and operations platform. The features include buildpack improvements, API maturity scoring, services to prevent the impact of noisy neighbors, and shared routes.
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New Features in Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview Releases
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview 1 in November 2022, and Preview 2 in December 2022. These new preview versions include several new features such as the Quick Add Dialog, Markdown preview support out-of-the box, and colorizing editor tabs using regular expression rules.
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Tagged Strings in Visual Studio and .NET 7
As part of .NET 7, developers now have the ability to tag strings using the StringSyntax attribute. These tags inform tools such as Visual Studio as to the nature of the string. For example, you can mark the string as containing JSON or RegEx, and Visual Studio will apply the appropriate syntax highlighting.
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Microsoft Releases Final Release Candidate for ASP.NET Core 7
Microsoft released ASP.NET Core 7 Release Candidate 2, the final release candidate for .NET 7 on October 11th. This release includes improvements to output caching, to the dynamic authentication in Blazor feature introduced in RC1 and experimental WebAssembly multithreading support using Web Workers. It introduces a new vary-by option and improves the OutputCachePolicyBuilder API.
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Run Visual Studio Software on Amazon EC2 with User-Based License Model
AWS recently announced the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances. Organizations can now pay a per-user subscription fee for fully compliant AWS-provided Visual Studio licenses.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Community Toolkit 8 with Automatic Source Generation
Microsoft has released version 8.0.0 of .NET Community Toolkit (NCT), a collection of helpers and APIs that make it easier to use patterns like MVVM (model-view-viewmodel) independently of the underlying platform. In this version, developers can benefit from reduced boilerplate code and streamlined API methods.
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Microsoft Releases a New Power Platform Product with Power Pages in Preview
The latest addition to the Power Platform is Microsoft Power Pages. At the annual Build conference, the company announced the preview of Microsoft Power Pages as a stand-alone Software as a Service (SaaS) platform product for anyone, regardless of technical background, to create data-powered, modern, and secure websites.
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Visual Studio 2022: Q&A with Leslie Richardson and Her Team
Visual Studio is the foremost integrated development environment created by Microsoft since 1997. The most recent releases have received many contributions and feedback from the community, making the tool more oriented towards actual use cases. InfoQ interviewed Leslie Richardson and her team to learn more about the new features and improvements in Visual Studio 2022, released earlier this month.
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Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 Focuses on Instant Feedback
Microsoft's second preview of Visual Studio 2022 provides a deeper look at the feature the company plans to provide in its latest IDE. As to be expected with software in development, there are also a few rough spots.
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Google Launches the Android Game Development Kit
The Android Game Development Kit (AGDK) aims to make it easier to develop, optimize, and deliver Android games. Composed of both existing and new tools and libraries, the Android Game Development Kit is built using C and C++ APIs to maximize performance.
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Microsoft Releases First Preview of Visual Studio 2022
Visual Studio 2022's first preview is now available , allowing developers to get their first hands-on look at the first 64-bit edition of the popular IDE. This preview primarily targets extension writers and those with large code bases, but adds notable new feature in IntelliCode.
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.NET News Roundup: .NET 6, MAUI, EF Core 6, Visual Studio 2022
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of new previews for .NET 6 and its related frameworks (including MAUI), along with the first preview of Visual Studio 2022, new Azure SDK libraries, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of June 14th, 2021.
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.NET News Roundup: Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, Windows ML, Project Tye, Oqtane
This past week was marked by the release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.10, Windows ML NuGet package 1.8.0, a Visual Studio Code extension for Tye, Oqtane 2.1, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of May 31st, 2021.