we want to explicitly recommend you against trying to update any applications you have in production to this preview.
The JSON serializer in Json.NET is a good choice when the JSON you are reading or writing maps closely to a .NET class.LINQ to JSON is good for situations where you are only interested in getting values from JSON, you don't have a class to serialize or deserialize to, or the JSON is radically different from your class and you need to manually read and write from your objects.
Go Live
This release is supported in production and you can call Microsoft support with issues.
- WMI Provider MSI still failing to install in 16.6
- View History on context menu in Solution Explorer doesn't do anything
- Cannot generate shim for X509Certificate2 with Visual Studio 2019 16.6.0
- Add Controller and Add New Scaffolded Item dialogs are not showing all data contexts after upgrading Visual Studio Enterprise 16.5.6->16.6.0
- Cannot open new json file
- About Microsoft Visual Studio frozen.
- Visual Studio 2019 16.6.0 Microsoft Fakes Issue
- VSSDK IVsHierarchy Regression in VS 16.6.x
- Windows 10 SDK (10.0.19041.1)- ARM64 memcpy crashes when accessing unaligned uncached memory
- Add script to SQL Server Database project does not open User Scripts list
- Fakes generation with ref argument
- Frequent soft hang with Code Analysis callstack in Open Folder project
- Visual Studio Class Designer dark theme support
- Added support for Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) in .NET Core projects
- Separate IntelliCode team completions model acquisition from model production.
- Addressed an issue where users may have experienced critical update or installation failures due to the WMIProvider package that would block use of the IDE. Failures in this component no longer block use of the IDE.
- Fixed a problem causing the product to stop responding when working with Xamarin projects on certain scenarios.
- Fixed a bug where VS would crash when attempting to decrypt an invalid UWP code-signing certificate
These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.2:
- Publish single file context menu item missing.
- Git network operations not working: Cannot spawn git-askpass.exe.
- "Visual C++ Resource Editor Package" load failed.
- Preview Transform gives error.
- Cannot type close brace.
- Object reference not set to an instance of an object when deploying Service Fabric project after update 15.8.0.
- "The given path's format is not supported" installation error.
- Task ExpandPriContent failed. Illegal characters in path.
- "Could not create instance of type System.Collections.Genertic.Iset'1[Signer]" installer error.
- Service fabric deployment fails in 15.8.0.
- Cannot create app package for Windows store.
- Incorrect code generation for strongly-typed resources.
- Keyboard binding for Italian layout.
- IntelliSense broken #9999.
- When working on a Unity project and Unity rewrites multiple project files, the Visual Studio Tools for Unity will now automatically reload the solution.
- The customer will now get a dialog to close Office applications if they are blocking the Visual Studio install and causing a failure of 1303.
If you love TypeScript: Angular or React
If you love object-orientated-programming (OOP): Angular
If you need guidance, structure and a helping hand: Angular
If you like flexibility: React
If you love big ecosystems: React
If you like choosing among dozens of packages: React
If you love JS & the “everything-is-Javascript-approach”: React
If you like really clean code: Vue
If you want the easiest learning curve: Vue
If you want the most lightweight framework: Vue
If you want separation of concerns in one file: Vue
If you are working alone or have a small team: Vue or React
If your app tends to get really large: Angular or React
If you want to build an app with react-native: React
If you want to have a lot of developers in the pool: Angular or React
If you work with designers and need clean HTML files: Angular or Vue
If you like Vue but are afraid of the limited ecosystem: React
If you can’t decide, first learn React, then Vue, then Angular
an exciting release incorporated with plenty of library updates, a new WASM mode, more source generators, constant performance improvements, and NativeAOT support on iOS. We hope you enjoy these new features and improvements. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue our journey of making .NET better, together!
Issues Fixed in this Release
Xamarin app throws Cannot access a disposed object. Object name: 'MobileAuthenticatedStream'error.
Xamarin.Android app throws ClassNotFoundException when deriving from Application class.
Upgrading may cause previously installed Windows and Android SDKs to be uninstalled.
Bumped JDK 8 to the latest version to avoid download failures from Oracle website.
Top Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4.1
- Fixed "the write operation failed. you must first acquire write access from dataschemamodelcontroller" error trying to publish a database
- Fix ExecutionEngineException exceptions when using SignalR on iOS devices in some configurations
- Runtime Fix "CEE_RET: value type stack" crash when interpreter was enabled with some libraries
- TypeScript 3.7.3 is now included by default, which contains several fixes for issues that effect the JavaScript and TypeScript editing experience.
- May allow mitigation of a Per-Monitor awareness related crash in Visual Studio
Security Advisory Notice
CVE-2019-1486 Live Share extension URL redirection vulnerability
