• WMI Provider MSI still failing to install in 16.6
• View History on context menu in Solution Explorer doesn't do anything
• Cannot generate shim for X509Certificate2 with Visual Studio 2019 16.6.0
• Add Controller and Add New Scaffolded Item dialogs are not showing all data contexts after upgrading Visual Studio Enterprise 16.5.6->16.6.0
• Cannot open new json file
• About Microsoft Visual Studio frozen.
• Visual Studio 2019 16.6.0 Microsoft Fakes Issue
• VSSDK IVsHierarchy Regression in VS 16.6.x
• Windows 10 SDK (10.0.19041.1)- ARM64 memcpy crashes when accessing unaligned uncached memory
• Add script to SQL Server Database project does not open User Scripts list
• Fakes generation with ref argument
• Frequent soft hang with Code Analysis callstack in Open Folder project
• Visual Studio Class Designer dark theme support
• Added support for Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) in .NET Core projects
• Separate IntelliCode team completions model acquisition from model production.
• Addressed an issue where users may have experienced critical update or installation failures due to the WMIProvider package that would block use of the IDE. Failures in this component no longer block use of the IDE.
• Fixed a problem causing the product to stop responding when working with Xamarin projects on certain scenarios.
• Fixed a bug where VS would crash when attempting to decrypt an invalid UWP code-signing certificate

JSON Web Token (JWT) is an easy way to secure an API.  

This release will be shortly followed by R Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2017 in early May. RTVS is a free and open source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a powerful and productive R development environment. 

In a Visual Studio Live! conference keynote Tuesday a couple of Microsoft program managers were on hand to discuss what's going on with .NET today and tomorrow, clearly signaling that .NET Core is the future of the ecosystem and that programmers should use it for all new development projects.  

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.3:

• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8.2 contained a pre-release build of .NET Core SDK 2.1.401 that is incompatible with Visual Studio. We have corrected this issue with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8.3.
• VSCppUnit test case creation failure.
• Python IntelliSense not working on Python 2.7.
• XAML designer causing Visual Studio to close unexpectedly. 

• Add option for Windows (UWP) platform when creating new Xamarin.Forms project from 'Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms)' project template.
• Help > About window title in Visual Studio 2019 still shows 'RC' after upgrade.
• When updating Visual Studio 2019 from RC to GA, RC shortcuts for Visual Studio are left behind.
• Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1.1 cannot create a UWP xamarin form.
• Package load failure starting Visual Studio 2019 after upgrade from Preview 4.4 to 16.0.

Today we’re excited to announce the release of PostSharp 4.2, available for download on NuGet and Visual Studio Gallery . 

Issues Fixed in 15.9.12

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.12:

• Access violation C++ /CLI 15.9.5 ISO C++ Latest Draft Standard since 15.9.5.
• An error occurred loading this property page (CSS & JSON).
• Visual Studio 2017 crashing when editing package.json.
• Opening package.json locks up Visual Studio.
• PGO Code Gen Bug - Vectorized instruction accessing memory OOB.
• Bad code gen in recursive bucket split routine.
• Compiler optimization bug in 15.8.9.
• We have fixed a linker error LNK4020 when using PCH, /Zi, and /GL in distributed build systems, such as IncrediBuild. The C++ compiler backend now correctly associates CIL OBJs with their corresponding compiler generated PDB when generating debug info for cross-module inlining.

Security Advisory Notices

• Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Vulnerability 

Entity Framework Migrations are handled from the package manager console in Visual Studio. The usage is shown in various tutorials, but I haven’t found a complete list of the commands available and their usage, so I created my own. There are four available main commands 

Today, we are releasing the 3.4.3 RTM version of the NuGet Visual Studio 2015 extension and the Windows x86 commandline executable. We continue to heavily invest in improving the quality of NuGet scenarios in Visual Studio and commandline. The complete list of issues fixed in this version is available on GitHub. In this post, we will review the important changes in 3.4.3 release.