The fourth preview of Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 8 is available on NuGet today!

Basic information

EF Core 8, or just EF8, is the successor to EF Core 7, and is scheduled for release in November 2023, at the same time as .NET 8.

EF8 previews currently target .NET 6, and can therefore be used with either .NET 6 (LTS) or .NET 7. This will likely be updated to .NET 8 as we near release.

EF8 will align with .NET 8 as a long-term support (LTS) release. See the .NET support policy for more information. 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.5:

• Debugger tooltip does not expand in Xamarin.iOS debugging session.
• Debugger won't let me leave execution point (Android).
• After updating to 15.8.1, data tip does not show when debugging.
• Debugger data tip does not expand [Editor].
• Exception:MSB0001: Internal MSBuild Error: Already registered for build-time.
• Wrong path to resource in manifest for ClickOnce after upgrading to VS 15.8.1.
• ClickOnce Manifest error in 15.8.
• ClickOnce Publish is missing certain references.
• ClickOnce: Language file copied to wrong location.
• Reference missing in the ClickOnce publish folder.
• Compiling non-.NET SDK style F# projects results in an internal MSBuild error unless MSBuild parallelism is set to 1.
• F# is not NGEN'd in Visual Studio.
• F# deploys the FSharp.Core 4.5.0.0 binary in the 4.4.3.0 location.

Details of What's New in 15.8.5

Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin

Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin now supports Xcode 10, which allows you to build and debug apps for iOS 12, tvOS 12, and watchOS 5. See how to get ready for iOS 12 and our introduction to iOS 12 for more details on the new features available. 

Introduction to .NET Microservices (.NET 8)

In this Introduction course, we will learn Microservices with .NET 8 (MVC).
Microservices is an upcoming technology, where it is very easy to scale and break down large project in simple and manageable services.
In this course we will build multiple services and see how they function together by communicating in synchronous and asynchronous manner.

⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:01) Section 1 -  Welcome & Getting Started
⌨️ (0:28:15) Section 2 -  Coupon API - Fundamentals
⌨️ (1:15:54) Section 3 -  Coupon API - CRUD
⌨️ (2:21:24) Section 4 -  Auth API
⌨️ (3:20:08) Section 5 -  Consuming Auth API
⌨️ (4:26:53) Section 6 - Product API
⌨️ (4:57:59) Section 7 - Home and Details Page
⌨️ (5:09:35) Section 8 - Shopping Cart
⌨️ (6:08:04) Section 9 - Shopping Cart in Web Project
⌨️ (6:58:06) Section 10 - Service Bus
⌨️ (7:23:42) Section 11 - Email API - Service Bus
⌨️ (7:54:11) What's Next? 

9 "hidden" features in Visual Studio that you may not know 

Building a web service with Node.js in Visual Studio Part 9: testing POST actions 

• 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

We’re excited to announce that starting April 2022, we will be making monthly updates for modern .NET (.NET Core) available for server operating systems via Microsoft Update (MU) on an opt-in basis. 

On the roadmap for ASP .NET Core 2.2, it mentions support for HTTP/2 in Kestrel and HttpClient:

• ASP .NET Core 2.2 Roadmap: https://github.com/aspnet/Announcements/issues/307  

It comes with full support for .NET Core 2.0, adds MSTest, various NuGet improvements, a new debugger tool window for visualizing Parallel Stacks and marking of instances, new refactorings and more. And with ReSharper 2017.2 now released, we’ve updated the ReSharper version powering Rider, too. Which brings improved support for C# 7.0, initial support for C# 7.1, new code inspections, navigation improvements, and so on. Let’s look at a few highlights! 

.NET apps can now run natively on Windows ARM64. This follows the support we added for Linux ARM64 in .NET Core 3.0. With .NET 5.0, you can develop web and UI apps on Windows ARM64 devices, and deliver your applications to users who own Surface Pro X and similar devices. You can already run .NET Core and .NET Framework apps on Windows ARM64, but via x86 emulation. It’s workable, but native ARM64 execution has much better performance.