The biggest improvement in this release is support for C++/CLI (AKA “managed C++”). The changes for C++/CLI are primarily in Visual Studio.
- 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.
- Automatic ANSI .rc file conversion to UTF8 !!!! (not wanted !!!!)
- Fixed an inaccurate error message when developers try publishing .NET Core 3.0 apps to Azure.
- Stability improvement in msbuild/dotnet restore when plugins are used to restore against authenticated feeds.
SQL Server 2019 Standard Edition Feature Limitations Are Out
- Updating VS 2019 corrupts installation
- Fixed an additional issue causing enterprise users building offline caches and offline users to fail an install.
Security Advisory Notices
Today, we’re announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 1. .NET Core 3.1 will be a small release focused on key improvements in Blazor and Windows desktop, the two big additions in .NET Core 3.0. It will be a long term support (LTS) release with an expected final ship date of December 2019.
- Xamarin.iOS Designer update to support for Xcode 11.1
- Publish doesn't work in Visual Studio 16.3.1
- InvalidOperationException Writing is not allowed after writer was completed
- ICE on valid code after upgrading to 16.2.0
- CPU Usage Tool context menu does not navigate
- Wrong assembly when result of conversion operator is converted to reference to base class.
- DockerUpdateComposeVsGeneratedFiles throws "Value cannot be null" ("Parameter name: path1") after updating to Visual Studio 16.3
- CPU Usage Tool contect menu does not navigate.
- InvalidOperationException Writing is not allowed after writer was completed.
- Publish doesn't work in Visual Studio 16.3.1.
- This fixes an issue with the Snapshot Debugger where customers are using MSA accounts.
- Fixed an issue where customers trying to install Microsoft.Visualstuio.Shell.15.0 NuGet package received a warning message of Framework not found.
- Fixes MSVC compiler bug involving implicit conversion from a lambda to function pointer.
- Fixed issue with Visual Studio crashing due to null reference exception.
- A fix is made to address a compiler interal error when the code has a out-of-line definition of a static data member of a nested class inside a partial specialization.
Top Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3.2
- Corrected an issue with Xcode 11 support.
