The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a chip that is either integrated into your PC’s motherboard or added separately into the CPU. Its purpose is to help protect encryption keys, user credentials, and other sensitive data behind a hardware barrier so that malware and attackers can’t access or tamper with that data. 

The latest update for Visual Studio 2022 is officially out. Offering a comprehensive suite of enhancements that span productivity, programming languages, and enterprise management, this general release is a monumental step forward. Developed with extensive user feedback, this version is fully compatible with .NET 8, which is also generally available as of today. 

The proposed C# 9 features could make C# more functional and practical. Read this article to be prepared for the Inevitable Challenges. 

jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.

Extend the *ngIf Syntax to Create a Custom Permission Directive
Learn how to create a custom structural directive in Angular that checks against user permissions

AngularJS is a huge framework with that already has many performance enhancements built in, but they can’t solve all our problems. No matter how fast the framework, we can all create sluggish code through bad practices and not understanding key concepts that help it perform well.  

Before we dive into the technical details, let’s start with a quick history lesson, courtesy of Don Syme who worked on adding generics to .NET and then went on to design and implement F#, which is a pretty impressive set of achievements!!

Background and History

• 1999 Initial research, design and planning
  • .NET/C# Generics History: Some Photos From Feb 1999
• 1999 First ‘white paper’ published
  • More C#/.NET Generics Research Project History – The MSR white paper
  • MSR White Paper: Proposed Extensions to COM+ VOS (Draft) (pdf)
• 2001 C# Language Design Specification created
  • Some History: 2001 “GC#” (Generic C#) research project draft
  • MSR - .NET Generics Research Project - Generic C# Specification (pdf)
• 2001 Research paper published
  • Design and Implementation of Generics for the .NET CLR (pdf)
• 2004 Work completed and all bugs fixed
  • Some more .NET/C# Generics Research Project History 

Fixed In This Release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5

• Modified the find "List View" to work with the VsColorOutput extension.
• Fixed a regression introduced with version 16.5 where use of default indexed properties with value-types caused an internal compiler error.
• Modified find in files to preserve user settings between Visual Studio 2019 sessions.
• Fixed an issue where Goto next/previous entry failed to work in the find results list when "preview selected files in find results" is turned off.
• Fixed an issue with find when doing a regex search a pattern that did not contain regex special characters.
• Fixed the button placement in find in files tool window when its in a docked position. Changed alignments for better experience in docked mode.
• Fixed an issue where the find list view did not navigate to results when enter was hit.
• Fixed an issue where Goto next/previous entry failed to work in the find results list when "preview selected files in find results" is turned off.

Security Advisory Notice

CVE-2020-0899 Microsoft Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2020-0900  Visual Studio Extension Installer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2020-5260  Git for Visual Studio Credential Leak Vulnerability due to insufficient validation on URLs

Welcome to the November 2018 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of significant updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• Multiline search improvements - Easily create multiline search patterns without using regex.
• Custom title bar on Linux - The custom title and menu bar is now the default on Linux.
• References view - Find All References view includes history of recent searches.
• Snippet comment variables - Snippet variables insert correct comment per language.
• JS/TS callback display - Now you can see the context of anonymous callbacks.
• JSDoc Markdown highlighting - Including syntax highlighting for Markdown code blocks in JSDoc.
• Simplified debug configuration - Better defaults and Quick Pick UI for initial launch configuration.
• Run tasks on folder open - Configure tasks to run when you first open a project folder.
• Choose extension version - Install earlier versions of Marketplace extensions. 

Today Microsoft announced the next version of Windows and a new Windows Store, and we’re excited to see how people take advantage of its new features. One thing that hasn’t changed is that Windows is still the best platform to design, build, test, and deploy Android apps.