Programming Environment for TypeScript & Node.js
Kretes is a programming environment for TypeScript applications built on top of Visual Studio Code. It combines a web framework with an editor into an integrated, battery-included solution.
Top Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4.6
- Miscompile, boolean condition deduced to be always true.
- Issue with loop unroll in Visual Studio 2019 compiler
- CL (VC v19.24) crashes when building in a docker volume folder
- CL (VC v19.22) crashes when it starts with the /ZI parameter in the docker container
- Compiling SSE intrinsics with MSVC compiler 19.20: compiled code yields incorrect results in one specific case
- C++ AMP code will not compile in Visual Studio 2019 16.3.1
- Sometimes coroutine_handle<>::destroy() resumes coroutine instead of destroying it.
- New Spectre mitigation options in C++ compiler: /Qspectre-load & /Qspectre-load-cf for speculative load hardening.
Security Advisory Notice
- CVE-2020-0793 & CVE-2020-0810 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2020-0884 Spoofing vulnerability when creating Outlook Web -Add-in
- CVE-2020-0789 Visual Studio Extension Installer Service Denial of Service Vulnerability
Microsoft yesterday shipped Visual Studio 2019 16.3 Preview 4, adding database profiling for projects based on .NET Core, which is coming out in a big v3.0 release next week.
The key point is that even if you have a monster development machine with 128 processors, SSD drives and 1TB of memory, Visual Studio will only ever use 2 to 2.5GB of memory.
- Fixed known issue: Fixed VSiX Installer throwing an IOException when executed from Visual Studio installation folder.
- Fixed known issue: Removed double-prompting for survey on uninstall.
- Enabled a help link for new users to get help choosing a workload.
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Today, over 95% of all extension users are on Visual Studio 2015 (14.0) or newer. So, if I were to write an extension today, I would target [14.0, 17.0).
We received tons of updates from Microsoft all across the board - from new experimental frameworks (Blazor) to quick iterations of the “Core Suite” (.NET, EF, and ASP.NET) and Visual Studio.
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The current plan is that C# 8.0 will ship at the same time as .NET Core 3.0. However, the features will start to come alive with the previews of Visual Studio 2019 that we are working on.
