.NET 8 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core!

This is the last release candidate that we plan to share before the final .NET 8 release later this year. Most of the planned features and changes for .NET 8 are part of this release candidate and are ready for you to try out. You can find the full list of what’s new in ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 in the docs. 

The IBM Swift Sandbox is an interactive website that lets you write Swift code and execute it in a server environment – on top of Linux! Each sandbox runs on IBM Cloud in a Docker container. In addition, both the latest versions of Swift and its standard library are available for you to use. 

• DateTime.Now = Cannot provide the value: host value not found
• MSVC codegen error vector reverse_iterator x64 C++17 debug build
• C2440 error building atlenc.h with /permissive- in VS 16.4 Preview 1
• Last Visual Studio update broke NTLM authentication on Android (seems like new version of Momo would be a reason)
• Visual Studio 16.3.1 fails at compiling template code (e.g. from Basler Pylon SDK)
• Using TypeScript 3.7 for IntelliSense
• XCode 11.3 is too new all of a sudden after update to 8.4
• You uploaded an APK or Android App Bundle with invalid or missing signing information for some of its files. You need to create a valid signed APK or Android App Bundle.
• Unable to Run UWP project
• JavaScript IntelliSense not working after update 16.4.1
• Xib : Xcode is to new(rendering problem when using custom components)
• Storyboard error: 'Xcode is too new'
• Stability improvements for debugging watchOS applications.
• Adds Xcode 11.3 SDK support.
• Fixed crash when fstack-protector-strong flag is enabled.
• Fixed some inconsistent behavior with Debugger.

Security Advisory Notice

CVE-2020-0602 ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2020-0603 ASP.NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2020-0605 .NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2020-0606 .NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Visual Studio 2022 now available 

The .NET Portability Analyzer is a free Visual Studio Add-in (or console app) that will give you a detailed report on how portable your code is. 

What’s new?

Here’s a sampling of the great new features and improvements in ASP.NET Core for .NET 7:

• Servers and runtime
  • Rating limiting: Limit the rate of handled requests using flexible endpoint configuration and policies.
  • Output caching: Configure output caching to reduce to more efficiently handle request.
  • Request decompression: Accept requests with compressed content.
  • HTTP/3: Built-in support for HTTP/3, the latest HTTP version based on the new QUIC multiplexed transport protocol.
  • WebSockets over HTTP/2: Use WebSockets over HTTP/2 connections.
  • WebTransport (experimental): Create streams and data grams over HTTP/3 with experimental support for WebTransport.
• Minimal APIs
  • Endpoint filters: Use endpoint filters to run cross-cutting code before or after a route handler.
  • Typed results: Return strongly typed results from minimal APIs.
  • Route groups: Organize groups of endpoints with a common prefix
• gRPC
  • JSON transcoding: Expand the reach of your gRPC services by also exposing them as JSON-based APIs
  • OpenAPI with JSON transcoding (experimenal): Use experimental support for generating OpenAPI specs for your gRPC JSON transcoded services.
  • gRPC health checks: Report and check the health of gRPC server apps.
  • gRPC client AddCallCredentials : Create clients that send authorized requests using bearer tokens.
• SignalR
  • Client results: Return client results to the server in response to requests from the server.
• MVC
  • Nullable view and page models: Nullable page and view models are now supported to improve the experience when using null state checking.
• Blazor
  • Custom elements: Build standard HTML custom elements with Blazor to integrate Blazor components with any JavaScript-based app.
  • Handle location changing events: Intercept location changing events to create custom user experiences when navigating.
  • Bind after/get/set modifiers: Run async logic after data binding and independently control how data binding gets and sets the data.
  • Dynamic authentication requests: Create dynamic authentication requests at runtime with custom parameters to handle advanced authentication scenarios in Blazor WebAssembly apps.
  • Improved JavaScript interop on WebAssembly: Optimize JavaScript interop call when running on WebAssembly using the new [JSImport]/[JSExport] support.
  • WebAssembly SIMD & exception handling: Improve performance with .NET WebAssembly ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation using WebAssembly SIMD and exception handling support. 

Want to learn about the latest and greatest in the 64-bit Visual Studio 2022? Join Scott Hanselman and Visual Studio product team as they take Visual Studio 2022 for a spin.

20:27 Profiling .NET apps in Visual Studio 2022 

23:19 Cross platform apps with WSL and CMake in Visual Studio 2022 

26:07 Testing your .NET app on Linux 

28:00 Easily create CI/CD pipelines using GitHub actions with Visual Studio  2022

30:40 Balloon drop! 

Visual Studio extension that shows the text of a string resource (.resx) when used inline in code.