Top Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2.5

• Visual Studio stops respsonding on creating a new SSIS project
• Fixed UI freezes occurring after extended usage of the editor.

Security Advisory Notices

CVE-2019-1232 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly impersonates certain file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges. An attacker with unprivileged access to a vulnerable system could exploit this vulnerability. The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service properly impersonates file operations.

CVE-2019-1301: Denial of Service Vulnerability in .NET Core

A denial of service vulnerability exists when .NET Core improperly handles web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service against a .NET Core web application. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely, without authentication.

The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the .NET Core web application handles web requests.

A few years ago, we took over maintenance and guidance for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit project. Please refer to this blog post for more information on the project and why we stepped in to assist.
As part of our ongoing commitment to the project, we’ve released an update (ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit v19.1.0) to address the following issues.
Improvements
- Visual Studio 2019 Support
- Security hardening: HTML-encode file names in AjaxFileUpload (#483)
 

.NET 7 Beginner Course 🚀 Web API, Entity Framework 7 & SQL Server

Table of Contents:
00:00:00 .NET 7 Beginner Course 🚀 Web API, Entity Framework 7 & SQL Server
00:01:18 Tools (Visual Studio Code & .NET SDK)
00:02:48 Create a new Web API
00:11:34 First API Call
00:15:23 Git Repository & .gitignore File
00:19:07 Web API Introduction
00:19:42 The Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern
00:22:03 New Models
00:26:17 New Controller & GET a New Character
00:36:35 First Steps with Attribute Routing
00:40:52 Routing with Parameters
00:43:34 HTTP Request Methods Explained
00:46:48 Add a New Character with POST
00:50:23 Best Practice: Web API Structure
00:53:42 Character Service
01:02:38 Fix the “Possible ArgumentNullException”
01:04:43 Asynchronous Calls
01:08:53 Proper Service Response with Generics
01:17:06 Data-Transfer-Objects (DTOs)
01:22:58 AutoMapper
01:35:30 Modify a Character with PUT
01:47:40 Modify a Character with AutoMapper
01:49:12 Delete a Character
01:54:15 Web API Summary
01:55:01 Entity Framework 7 Introduction
01:55:50 Object-Relational-Mapping & Code-First Migration Explained
01:57:42 Installing Entity Framework 7
02:00:48 Installing SQL Server Express (with Management Studio)
02:02:04 Implementing the DataContext
02:05:37 ConnectionString & Adding the DbContext
02:10:29 First Migration
02:14:49 GET Implementations 

Logging is a big part of software development for many years now. One can argue that a logging mechanism is a must-have part of any application or library. I would agree with that statement. Logging has a crucial part to play in a scenario where you can’t use interactive debugging (that is, attaching a debugger like Visual Studio). It allows us to investigate errors after the problem already happened. In some cases, like Production Debugging, logs might be the only information you have. 

• C++ Linux project - Remote header sync is broken in Visual Studio 16.3
• Visual Studio 16.3 opens some files with notepad
• Fixed an issue with the Show Output window either closing too quickly.
• Fixed an issue where Visual Studio 2019 stops responding in several scenarios, including opening a solution, changing solution configuration, and closing a solution.