Fixed In This Release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5

• Modified the find "List View" to work with the VsColorOutput extension.
• Fixed a regression introduced with version 16.5 where use of default indexed properties with value-types caused an internal compiler error.
• Modified find in files to preserve user settings between Visual Studio 2019 sessions.
• Fixed an issue where Goto next/previous entry failed to work in the find results list when "preview selected files in find results" is turned off.
• Fixed an issue with find when doing a regex search a pattern that did not contain regex special characters.
• Fixed the button placement in find in files tool window when its in a docked position. Changed alignments for better experience in docked mode.
• Fixed an issue where the find list view did not navigate to results when enter was hit.
• Fixed an issue where Goto next/previous entry failed to work in the find results list when "preview selected files in find results" is turned off.

Security Advisory Notice

CVE-2020-0899 Microsoft Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2020-0900  Visual Studio Extension Installer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2020-5260  Git for Visual Studio Credential Leak Vulnerability due to insufficient validation on URLs

Entity Framework is Microsoft’s flagship Object/Relation Mapper, and the recommended way to access relational databases. Entity Framework Core is a complete rewrite from the “classic” Entity Framework, building on the new multiplatform .NET Core framework and adding the ability to connect to nonrelational data sources while keeping the features that made Entity Framework Code First so popular. In Entity Framework Core Succinctly, join Ricardo Peres to explore this new version of the O/RM, from getting set up to avoiding common traps. 

Stop writing your changelogs manually

How do you usually keep track of the changes in your projects? Do you use GitHub releases? Do you update your changelogs manually? In this article, I will explain how I handle this topic. This is just one way of doing it, feel free to stick around if you are interested in the topic 🔥

.NET Core is clearly where Microsoft is investing most of its effort right now and while it's taken a while, I think MS is proving that they are serious in making .NET the best platform it can be 

Today we’ve released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 which contains support for the release of .NET Core 3.0 

Stairway to XML

XML has been part of the SQL Standard since 2003, and is essential for any DBA because so many of the dynamic management views return XML data. Now that the industry is more used to data defined by document markup, it is becoming more important than ever for Database Developers and DBAs to understand the technology and to know where it makes sense to use XML. In this book, originally a series of articles on SQLServerCentral.com, Robert Sheldon flexes his talent to make the complicated seem simple. 

In this article, we’ll take a close look at some of the changes we made on this very site — running on JAMStack with React — to optimize the web performance and improve the Core Web Vitals metrics. With some of the mistakes we’ve made, and some of the unexpected changes that helped boost all the metrics across the board. 

name: Deploy to GitHub Pages

# Run workflow on every push to the main branch
on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]

jobs:
  deploy-to-github-pages:
    # use ubuntu-latest image to run steps on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    # uses GitHub's checkout action to checkout code form the main branch
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    
    # sets up .NET Core SDK
    - name: Setup .NET Core SDK
      uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1
      with:
        dotnet-version: 5.0.302

    # publishes Blazor project to the release-folder
    - name: Publish .NET Core Project
      run: dotnet publish ./src/DNTPersianComponents.Blazor.WasmSample/Server/DNTPersianComponents.Blazor.WasmSample.Server.csproj -c Release -o release --nologo
    
    # changes the base-tag in index.html from '/' to 'DNTPersianComponents.Blazor' to match GitHub Pages repository subdirectory
    - name: Change base-tag in index.html from / to DNTPersianComponents.Blazor
      run: sed -i 's/<base href="\/" \/>/<base href="\/DNTPersianComponents.Blazor\/" \/>/g' release/wwwroot/index.html
    
    # copy index.html to 404.html to serve the same file when a file is not found
    - name: copy index.html to 404.html
      run: cp release/wwwroot/index.html release/wwwroot/404.html

    # add .nojekyll file to tell GitHub pages to not treat this as a Jekyll project. (Allow files and folders starting with an underscore)
    - name: Add .nojekyll file
      run: touch release/wwwroot/.nojekyll
      
    - name: Commit wwwroot to GitHub Pages
      uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@3.7.1
      with:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        BRANCH: github-pages
        FOLDER: release/wwwroot

src: url('/lib/samim-font/Samim-Bold.eot?v=4.0.5');

src: url('../lib/samim-font/Samim-Bold.eot?v=4.0.5');

Come learn the top 7 reasons to use Visual Studio 2017 if you are a C++ developer. Whether you are using the product and are looking to upgrade, or you never used it before but you are considering it now, join us to discover how Visual Studio 2017 raises the bar in terms of C++ productivity. From C++ standards conformance to coding productivity, cross-platform development for Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS and CMake support, these are only a few of the topics we discuss in this demo-packed session. 

We’re proud to announce the release of PowerShell 7.1, the latest major update to PowerShell 7. This release includes a number of improvements and fixes that build on top of the PowerShell 7.0 release in March and the recent GA release of .NET 5.