• C++ Linux project - Remote header sync is broken in Visual Studio 16.3
• Visual Studio 16.3 opens some files with notepad
• Fixed an issue with the Show Output window either closing too quickly.
• Fixed an issue where Visual Studio 2019 stops responding in several scenarios, including opening a solution, changing solution configuration, and closing a solution. 

Rider 2021.1: Updates to Docker and C# Support, Scaffolding in ASP.NET, and More! 

Say hello to Rider 2019.1.2 and its 80+ fixed bugs and improvements! 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this release:
- The debugger cannot continue running the process. Operation not supported. Unknown error: 0x9233000b.
- Recent Projects and Solutions not populated once executed.
- Full build every time with 15.5.
- Wrong IntelliSense errors are still shown on VS 15.5.2 for Visual Basic projects.
- VS2017 15.5.2 Unresolved references when "Allow parallel project initialization" is enabled.
- Upgrading to 15.5.2: cannot launch nor repair VS.
- VS2017 Installation issue.
- Unable to install because of BSoD.

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-2019-1349 Git for Visual Studio Remote Excecution Vulnerability due to too lax restrictions on submodule names

CVE-2019-1350 Git for Visual Studio Remote Excecution Vulnerability due to incorrect quoting of command-line arguments

CVE-2019-1351 Git for Visual Studio Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability due to usage of non-letter drive names during clone

CVE-2019-1352 Git for Visual Studio Remote Excecution Vulnerability due to unawareness of NTFS Alternate Data Streams

CVE-2019-1354 Git for Visual Studio Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability due to not refusing to write out tracked files containing backslashes

CVE-2019-1387 Git for Visual Studio Remote Execution Vulnerability due to too lax validation of submodule names in recursive clones

CVE-2019-1486 Live Share extension URL redirection vulnerability

After several years of development, MBrace 1.0 was released last week. MBrace is a programming model for scalable cloud data scripting and programming with F# and C#. The project consists mainly of code libraries and cloud providers runtime. 

This is greatly reducing the fixed Array.Copy overhead for common cases. E.g. Copying byte array of length one:

• Array.Copy(Array, Array, int): 2.3x faster
• Array.Copy(Array, int, Array, int, int): 1.5x faster 

A WYSIWYG editor developed by the folks at Basecamp and creators of Ruby on Rails. 1.0 has just dropped and introduces support for image galleries. 

Structured data in earlier versions of ASP.NET meant creating and registering custom types and configuration sections for our applications. In ASP.NET Core and in Core MVC, structured configuration is a breeze with support for JSON documents as the storage mechanism and the ability to flatten hierarchies into highly portable keys.

Rider 2024.2: Full Line Code Completion, Reader Mode, Major Enhancements to Debugging, and More.