We’re excited to announce a new open source project on GitHub from the WCF team at Microsoft.  This new version of WCF targets .NET Core and has been donated to the family of .NET Foundation open source projects.

Issues fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.0.4

• Attach to iis prompt to attach multiple times.
• WPF applications broken after FW 4.8 update.
• installing typescript 3.3 disables version 2.2 compilation.
• Unable to attach debugger when attaching multiple startup projects on Visual Studio 2019.
• Known issue: Application tab of VB project property pages is broken when isntalling the .NET Framework 4.8 Developer Pack.
• Visual Studio extensions may fail to install attempting to overwrite core NuGet files.
• microsoft.diagnosticshub.dotnetobjectalloc.vsix missing from offline installer.

Security Advisory Notices

CVE-2019-0727 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly performs certain file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could delete files in arbitrary locations. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged access to a vulnerable system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by securing locations the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector performs file operations in. 

Windows Subsystem for Android and .NET MAUI 

If you enable our semantic highlighting support then, be sure to try out the included Visual Studio 2019 Light and Dark themes. TypeScript looks great in it too!

NOTE: For semantic highlighting ensure that editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled and csharp.semanticHighlighting.enabled are set to true. 

DotSpatial is a geographic information system library written for .NET Framework. It allows developers to incorporate spatial data, analysis and mapping functionality into their applications or to contribute GIS extensions to the community.

DotSpatial provides a map control for .NET and several GIS capabilities including:

• Display a map in a .NET Windows Forms.
• Open shapefiles, grids, rasters and images.
• Render symbology and labels.
• Reproject on the fly.
• Manipulate and display attribute data.
• Scientific analysis.
• Read GPS data. 

One of my favorite aspects of ASP.NET Core is that it is truly cross platform. And this extends to the developer experience as well. This videos discusses and demonstrates getting started with testing ASP.NET Core MVC applications using the cross-platform tools with the .NET Core SDK,  

.NET 5 will still ship this November, but it won't have all the unifying "just one .NET going forward" functionality that Microsoft originally planned because of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some features originally planned for .NET 5 in November 2020 are now slated for .NET 6 in November 2021.  

SQL Server 2019 preview builds on previous releases to grow SQL Server as a platform that gives you choices of development languages, data types, on-premises or cloud, and operating systems. This article summarizes what is new for SQL Server 2019.