November 12, 2014

Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 4 Release to Manufacturing (RTM).
This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2013.

More information:
http://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs2013-update4-rtm-vs

Download full ISO:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=512594

SHA-1 Values:
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2013-iso-sha1-vs

They also released the new Visual Studio Community 2013:
http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs

 

We're pleased to announce that version 2.0 of the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio is now available. You can install it directly from the Tools and Extensions gallery in Visual Studio, as well as from our releases page and our website. 

R is decidedly the most popular statistical/data analysis language in use today. R Tools for Visual Studio brings together the power of R and Visual Studio in a convenient and easy to use plug-in that’s free and Open Source 

C# 8 was officially released in September at .NET Conf along side .NET Core 3 & Visual Studio 16.3 (8.3 on Mac). It is packed with tons of amazing new features that truly everyone should be using.

Today released CTP 5 of Visual Studio 2015

• XAML designer for UWP - control properties not displayed
• UWP XAML designer doesn't update elements on updating XAML code
• XAML properties and document structure
• Properties window not showing the properties when clicking an object
• Unable to see properties of any items
• Installation error when trying to connect to the Mac: "The Xamarin.iOS version installed on 'x' (12.8.0.2) is newer than your version".
• Fixed right click solution name in titlebar VS crash bug.
• Improved performance for customers with the Azure workload installed.
• Corrected errors during restore and build on SDK-based projects that use 3rd party SDKs to target UWP platforms.
• Fixed a bug in C# compiler where it was not properly warning customers about incomplete interface implementations.
• Improved error messaging in Visual Studio Tools for Kubernetes.
• Fixed error when adding a comment in PR for SymbolCheck. 

• VS is more responsive when running Git operations.
• Debugging large solutions with /debug:fastlink PDBs is more robust. Changes in the PDB/DIA lead to reduced latency and a 30% reduction in heap memory consumption in the VS debugger that used to cause crashes.
• C++ compiler bugfixes:
  • Fix for the SSA optimizer incorrectly sinking a function call past a store to a variable used in a __finally handler.
  • Fix for the SSA optimizer sometimes incorrectly analyzing memory loads from locations with negative offsets.
  • Fix for the optimizer incorrectly transforming a pre-incremented loop into a post-incremented loop. This was found compiling the ICU project.
• Microsoft bumped up the Java™ Development Kit 8 to Update 172 (JDK version 8u172). 

• DateTime.Now = Cannot provide the value: host value not found
• MSVC codegen error vector reverse_iterator x64 C++17 debug build
• C2440 error building atlenc.h with /permissive- in VS 16.4 Preview 1
• Last Visual Studio update broke NTLM authentication on Android (seems like new version of Momo would be a reason)
• Visual Studio 16.3.1 fails at compiling template code (e.g. from Basler Pylon SDK)
• Using TypeScript 3.7 for IntelliSense
• XCode 11.3 is too new all of a sudden after update to 8.4
• You uploaded an APK or Android App Bundle with invalid or missing signing information for some of its files. You need to create a valid signed APK or Android App Bundle.
• Unable to Run UWP project
• JavaScript IntelliSense not working after update 16.4.1
• Xib : Xcode is to new(rendering problem when using custom components)
• Storyboard error: 'Xcode is too new'
• Stability improvements for debugging watchOS applications.
• Adds Xcode 11.3 SDK support.
• Fixed crash when fstack-protector-strong flag is enabled.
• Fixed some inconsistent behavior with Debugger.

Security Advisory Notice

CVE-2020-0602 ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2020-0603 ASP.NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2020-0605 .NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2020-0606 .NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

• Delete option is missing from solution explorer context menu in Xamarin Forms Android projects.
• Xamarin.Android: Can't select target framework 28 in Android Manifest settings.
• Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.PageInspector.Loader, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
• "There was an error running the selected code generator" when trying to create a new view.
• Android Berechtigungsliste ist leer-Android permission list is empty.
• Missing icons for .axml files in Visual Studio 2019.
• axml icons are not displayed.
• Visual Studio extensions may fail to install attempting to overwrite core NuGet files.
• C# switch statement on a constant expression may produce bad compiler errors. 

In this post, I will describe how to port a desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core. I picked a WinForms application as an example. Steps for WPF application are similar and I’ll describe what needs to be done different for WPF as we go. I will also show how you can keep using the WinForms designer in Visual Studio even though it is under development and is not yet available for .NET Core projects.