There is a myth about white text over black backgrounds being the best color contrast combination for accessibility, but in reality, white text on black backgrounds creates a visual fuzzing effect for people with astigmatism called “halation”. This effect is known to reduce text readability and is particularly bad for people with astigmatism because it can cause terrible headaches. 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.5:

• Debugger tooltip does not expand in Xamarin.iOS debugging session.
• Debugger won't let me leave execution point (Android).
• After updating to 15.8.1, data tip does not show when debugging.
• Debugger data tip does not expand [Editor].
• Exception:MSB0001: Internal MSBuild Error: Already registered for build-time.
• Wrong path to resource in manifest for ClickOnce after upgrading to VS 15.8.1.
• ClickOnce Manifest error in 15.8.
• ClickOnce Publish is missing certain references.
• ClickOnce: Language file copied to wrong location.
• Reference missing in the ClickOnce publish folder.
• Compiling non-.NET SDK style F# projects results in an internal MSBuild error unless MSBuild parallelism is set to 1.
• F# is not NGEN'd in Visual Studio.
• F# deploys the FSharp.Core 4.5.0.0 binary in the 4.4.3.0 location.

Details of What's New in 15.8.5

Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin

Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin now supports Xcode 10, which allows you to build and debug apps for iOS 12, tvOS 12, and watchOS 5. See how to get ready for iOS 12 and our introduction to iOS 12 for more details on the new features available. 

A new (and free!) e-book on extending the capabilities of Power BI with R is now available for download, from analytics consultancy BlueGranite. The introduction to the book explains why R and Power BI are a great match together. 

Lucian Wischik discusses the design process for C# 7, which is being designed in the open, with eager community participation on GitHub and elsewhere, and the language features that are taking shape

Lucian Wischik discusses the design process for C# 7, which is being designed in the open, with eager community participation on GitHub and elsewhere, and the language features that are taking shape 

ASP.NET 5 uses the NuGet package manager to get server-side libraries but for client-side things we recommend folks use Bower. The most popular JavaScript and CSS libraries are there, and there's no need for us to duplicate them in NuGet. This means ASP.NET 5 folks get to use the same great client-side libraries that other open web technologies enjoy.

Clean code is C# code that is easy to read and understand, both for the original author and any future developers who may need to work on the codebase. It is a code that follows best coding practices and is organized in a logical way. 

Paket is a package manager for .NET and mono projects 

HTTP/2 PUSH is a feature that lets a server pre-emptively push resources to the client (without a corresponding request). HTTP Preload is a way to indicate to the browser resources it would require while loading the current page. In this post, we will discuss the key differences between PUSH and Preload, with a detailed explanation of which one to choose based on your use case. 

Bootstrap 4 is 30% smaller than the latest Bootstrap 3 build! It previously was around ~123kb and now is a mere ~88kb. This is a huge reduction for not losing any features.