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.
Top Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2.2
- Fixed Test Explorer doesn't show my tests on VS2019 16.2.0
- Fixed a problem where Visual Studio can stop responding during shutdown.
Security Advisory Notices
CVE-2019-1211 Git for Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Git for Visual Studio when it improperly parses configuration files. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code in the context of another local user. To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated attacker would need to modify Git configuration files on a system prior to a full installation of the application. The attacker would then need to convince another user on the system to execute specific Git commands. The update addresses the issue by changing the permissions required to edit configuration files.
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.
Better late than never! Some of you may have noticed that C# 7.3 already shipped, back in Visual Studio 2017 update 15.7. Some of you may even be using the features already.
