Top Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3.1

• 16.3 - XAML designer not showing for .NET Core 3.0 apps

Version 9.1 of Angular Now Available — TypeScript 3.8, faster builds, and more 

Angular v6.1 Now Available — TypeScript 2.9, Scroll Positioning, and more

npm update -g

The following OData-related projects are now on GitHub:

• ODataLib
• EdmLib
• OData Client for .NET
• The spatial library
• OData Client Code Generator
• Web API for OData
• RESTier
• C++ Server and Client
• Python Client
• OData4ObjC 

.NET Core 5 is open source on GitHub
Microsoft will support .NET Core 5 on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Microsoft has contributed .NET Core 5 to the .NET Foundation
.NET Framework 4.6 reference source now uses the MIT license
Renewed collaboration with the Mono Project

- Reduce start up time by loading finished code first models from a persistent cache
- Fluent API to define indexes
- DbFunctions.Like() to enable writing LINQ queries that translate to LIKE in SQL
- Migrate.exe should support -script option
- EF6 does not work with primary key from sequence
- Update error numbers for SQL Azure Execution Strategy
- Bug: Retrying queries or SQL commands fails with “The SqlParameter is already contained by another SqlParameterCollection”
- Bug: Evaluation of DbQuery.ToString() frequently times out in the debugger

Here’s a quick rundown of some of the changes:

• Added validation styles for file inputs
• Improved printing of dark tables
• Suppressed that text-hide deprecation notice by default
• Fixed an issue where Collapse wasn’t working in Internet Explorer
• Cleaned up some JS globals and improve coverage
• Bumped dependencies, namely Jekyll
• Fixed docs issue with incorrect name for our monospace font utility