• Productivity and Performance improvements – Visual Studio is more responsive and usable, and projects load faster.
• Improved tooling to profile and understand your applications performance.
• Updated JavaScript and TypeScript tooling, including improved Vue.js and ESLint support, and right-click context menu productivity improvements.
• More C++ productivity improvements in IntelliSense, Code Analysis, and Just My Code debugging.
• Improved performance for Visual Basic integer manipulation.
• Azure Development improvements, including continuous delivery for Azure Functions, better experience managing secrets via Key Vault, and ability to configure Application Insights during initial site creation.
• More Library Manager features for managing Web Projects’ client-side library files.
• Mobile Development improvements such as faster Android incremental builds and inclusion of Xamarin.Essentials to facilitate building native apps. 

 How to install Visual Studio Code and configure it as a replacement for the PowerShell ISE

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.3:

• VS2017 compiler creates broken debug build using Qt framework and generates 'Invalid address specified to RtlValidateHeap' error.
• Incorrect code generation for matrix multiplication.
• VS 2017 Update 7: Git History Codelens only showing entries for the past 6 months.
• UWP projects reference multiple NetStandard 2.0 dlls after 15.7.1 upgrade.
• Building C++ code in VS 15.7 with /std:c++17 breaks binary compatibility for std::_Ptr_move_cat.
• Visual Studio 15.7 stuck when opening XAML files.
• CMake configuration fails and generates message "C++ IntelliSense information may be out of date, generate the CMake cache to refresh".
• Unable to start second process for debugging.
• After update to Visual Studio 15.7.1, some test programs fail in start-up due to reading access violation.
• Missing compiler required member 'Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.Binder.Convert'.
• Build fails after 15.7.0 update on older project using .NET 3.5 .
• Coloring, typing, tooltips and IntelliSense slow in F# in VS2017 editor.
• F# editing experience takes up to a minute for tooltips and dropdowns to display.
• Certain class member variable value are incorrectly read as zero.
• Attempt to open XAML file for the first time causes VS to sit with the "Opening the file ..." message for about 10 minutes before XAML file opens.
• Visual Studio slows down and freezes, creating work loss.
• The target "GetBuiltProjectOutputRecursive" does not exist in the project.
• Internal error with lambda C++17 after 15.7.1 update.
• UWP App is slow to return a stopped state in IDE.
• MSVC auto-vectorization produces incorrect code or incorrect results.
• Visual Studio closed debug a new instance project1, when a new debug new instance project2 has started.
• Latest update breaks "start without debugging" on multiple projects.
• UWP XAML is very very slow on open.
• XAML viewer freezes on 15.7.2 and 15.8.0 preview 1.1.
• Xamarin UI Test App project template missing.
• Xamarin project creation problem.
• Visual Studio crashes when creating new Mobile APP Xamarin.
• Unable to create Xamarin.Forms-Projects.
• Não consigo criar novos projetos Xamarin Forms - Can't create new projects Xamarin Forms.
• Blank project crash after update. 

Today, we are releasing an update to .NET 8.0.400 SDK due to an issue with (MSBuild Crash when publishing containers)[dotnet/sdk#42731].

The .NET 8.0.401 release is available for download. This SDK includes the previously released .NET 8.0.8 Runtime and is in support of Visual Studio 17.11 release. The latest 8.0 release is always listed at .NET 8.0 Releases.

SQL Server Management Studio 18.2 is now generally available 

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 18.1 is now generally available 

Those of you who worked with ASP.NET web forms will recollect that certain server controls such as DropDownList have a property called AutoPostBack. This property when set to true automatically submits the form to the server whenever the selection changes and raises some server side event. In modern web development people prefer to use Ajax over AutoPostBack but at times AutoPostBack is what you might need. To that end this article shows how AutoPostBack can be implemented in ASP.NET Core applications. 

ASP.NET Core is a completely new web framework for building modern cloud-based web applications. In this presentation learn all about ASP.NET Core and including the latest features and innovations in MVC. You’ll see how you can build applications that run cross-platform on Windows, Mac and Linux via .NET Core. You’ll also see how ASP.NET Core MVC gives you a unified web programming model for building both web UI and web APIs.
 

Motion Slider is a responsive jQuery slider plugin for mobile and desktop that enables multi-transition and browser prefix free CSS animation to your HTML DOM elements

Version 9.1 of Angular Now Available — TypeScript 3.8, faster builds, and more