In this episode, Robert is joined by Paul Litwin, who shows us how to get started with Git in under an hour. Git is a free, open source and quite popular distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Starting with the command line and ending up in both VS Code and Visual Studio, Paul takes us on a tour of the how you can use Git to manage your source code. 

Internet Information Services (IIS) 10.0 Express is a free, simple and self-contained version of IIS that is optimized for developers. IIS 10.0 Express makes it easy to use the most current version of IIS to develop and test websites. IIS 10.0 Express has all the core capabilities of IIS 10.0 and additional features to ease website development.

The benefits of using IIS 10.0 Express include:

• The same web server that runs on your production server is now available on your development computer.
• Most tasks can be done without the need for administrative privileges.
• IIS Express runs on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and all later versions of Windows.
• Many users can work independently on the same computer. 

C# and .NET Development in VS Code for Beginners
Writing C# applications in Visual Studio Code has never been easier!  We recently introduced the new C# Dev Kit extension In this video series, you’ll learn how to get started writing, debugging, testing, and running your C# applications productively in VS Code using the new C# Dev Kit extension. 

The latest update for Visual Studio 2022 is officially out. Offering a comprehensive suite of enhancements that span productivity, programming languages, and enterprise management, this general release is a monumental step forward. Developed with extensive user feedback, this version is fully compatible with .NET 8, which is also generally available as of today. 

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• InvalidOperationException while debugging Xamarin Forms app
• Frame note in module in Xamarin Forms Android
• Internal compiler error is fixed and analysis for WDK completes as usual.
• We fixed an issue in the new Find in Files experience where hidden files and auto-generated files were not searchable.
• Fixed issue with deployment of UWP apps to remote machines where deployment fails with message "DEP0600: Deployment failed. DkmException - Error in the application."
• Local static variable not initialized in inlined function of class imported from dll
• VS 2019 16.5.X: Multiple startup projects while Live Visual Tree was last opened in a debug session crashes
• Fixed issues where for the C++ formatting indentation of new lines with only ending parenthesis.
• Fixed a bug preventing some users from installing 16.5
• Fix an issue where Visual Studio can crash when the display configuration changes.
• Fixed an issue causing slow downs when opening solutions that are impacting the IntelliSense code and related operations.
• Fixed a crash with the debugger that users can run into when the target application being debugged raises an exception.
• Added support for Xcode 11.4.

This release will be shortly followed by R Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2017 in early May. RTVS is a free and open source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a powerful and productive R development environment. 

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced their support for Blazor, and now Frank A. Krueger has developed the Ooui library which allows C# or F# to be used to write applications that run in the browser.  Ooui can target WASM, enabling Xamarin.Forms app to be deployed in web assembly and the result runs entirely in-browser without the need for an application server. 

This update is now available for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013