.NET 8 RC2 is now available. This is our last release candidate. This release includes new NuGet package READMEs for .NET packages, simple CLI-based project evaluation for MSBuild, publishing containers to tar.gz archives, and Tensor Primitives for .NET. 

GitHub Issues

The GitHub Issues integration allows you to search and reference your issues from the commit message box in VS, in response to this suggestion ticket. You can reference an issue or a pull request by typing # or clicking on the # button in the lower right side of the commit message text box. If you weren't already authenticated to access related issues, you will now be prompted to sign in to take advantage of this feature.

Line Unstaging

To continue improving our line-staging (aka interactive staging) feature, we've added unstage. You can now use the tool tip option to unstage changes, line by line, as requested here Unstage individual lines and hunks in a file - 4 votes

Arm64

We continue to build native support for Arm64 on Windows 11 for the most popular developer scenarios. We now support the .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) workload on Arm64 Visual Studio.

C++

• Available as a preview feature, you can now view Unreal Engine logs without leaving VS. To see the logs from the Unreal Engine Editor, click View > Other Windows > UE Log. To filter your logs, click on the "Categories" or "Verbosity" dropdowns. Since this is an experimental feature, feedback is greatly appreciated.
• You can now import STM32CubeIDE projects for embedded development within Visual Studio with File > Open > Import STM32CubeIDE project. This generates a CMake project with device flashing and debugging settings for STLink. You must have the STM32CubeIDE installed with the board support package for your device. More details available here.
• You can use the new CMake Debugger to debug your CMake scripts at build time. You can set breakpoints based on filenames, line numbers, and when CMake errors are triggered. Additionally, you can view call stacks of filenames and watch defined variables. Currently, this only works with bundled CMake, and projects targeting WSL or remote machines are not supported yet. We are actively working to add more support to the CMake debugger, and feedback is greatly appreciated. 

Fixed In This Release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5

• Team Explorer not loading after update to mandatory latest visual studio version for Visual studio 2019
• Find Highlighting Fails when Matching with Match Case Disabled and Regex Option Enabled

Security Advisory Notice

CVE-2020-1108 .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability

A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing specially crafted requests to the .NET Core application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the .NET Core web application handles web requests.

CVE-2020-1161 .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability

A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing specially crafted requests to the ASP.NET Core application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the ASP.NET Core web application handles web requests. 

In the same time when first object-oriented languages were emerging, another concept inspired by general relativity and quantum mechanics was taking shape – actor model. In general terms, the Actor model was defined 1973. and was developed on a platform of multiple independent processors in a network. Similar to the object-oriented approach, this essentially mathematical model, revolved around the concept of actors. An actor is the smallest structural unit of Actor model, and just like objects, they encapsulate data and behavior. In difference to objects, however, actors communicate with each other exclusively trough messages. Messages in actors are processed in a serial manner. According to the full definition of actors, they can do three things:

• send a finite number of messages to other actors
  
• create a finite number of new actors
  
• designate the behavior to be used for the next message it receives 
  

namespace Nop.Services
{
    public interface ICustomService
    {
        protected InjectType Inject { get;  }
        protected int Order { get; }
        protected ImplementationType implementationType { get; }
    }
    public enum ImplementationType
    {
        WithInterface = 0,
        WithoutInterface = 1
    }
    public enum InjectType
    {
        Scopped=0,
        Transit=1,
        SingleTon=2
    }
}

namespace Nop.Services
{
    public interface IMyCustomService: ICustomService
    {
        int ok();
    }
}

namespace Nop.Services
{
    public class MyCustomService : IMyCustomService
    {
        public InjectType Inject { get;  }
        public int Order { get;  }
        public ImplementationType implementationType { get;  }

        public MyCustomService()
        {
            implementationType = ImplementationType.WithInterface;
            Inject = InjectType.Scopped;
            Order = 1;
        }
        public int ok()
        {
            return 10;
        }
    }
}

namespace Nop.Web.Framework.Infrastructure
{
    public class CustomDependencyInjection : NopStartup
    {
        private static bool IsSubInterface(Type t1, Type t2)
        {
            if (!t2.IsAssignableFrom(t1))
                return false;

            if (t1.BaseType == null)
                return true;

            return !t2.IsAssignableFrom(t1.BaseType);
        }
        public override void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services, IConfiguration configuration)
        {
            //-------------Get All Services-------------
            var asm = AppDomain.CurrentDomain
                 .GetAssemblies()
                 .Single(x => x.FullName.Contains("Nop.Services"));
            //-------------find Services that inheriance of ICustomService-------------
            var types = asm.DefinedTypes.Where(x => IsSubInterface(x, typeof(ICustomService)));
            //-----------Get All Custom Service Classess-------
            var allRelatedClassServices = types
                .Where(x => x.IsClass)
                .OrderBy(x=>(Int32)x.GetProperty("Order")
                .GetValue(Activator.CreateInstance(x), null));

            //-----------Get All Custom Service Interfaces-------
            var allRelatedInterfaceServices = types.Where(x => x.IsInterface);
            //-----------Matche Class Services To Related Interface Services-------
            TypeInfo interfaceService=null;
            foreach (var classService in allRelatedClassServices)
            {
                //-----------detect Implementation Type for service-----------
                var implementationValue = (ImplementationType)classService.GetProperty("implementationType")
                   .GetValue(Activator.CreateInstance(classService), null);

                //-----------detect inject type for service-----------
                var InjectValue = (InjectType)classService.GetProperty("Inject")
                   .GetValue(Activator.CreateInstance(classService), null);

                //-----------get related interface for service class-----------
                if (implementationValue == ImplementationType.WithInterface)
                    interfaceService = allRelatedInterfaceServices.Single(x => x.Name == $"I{classService.Name}");

               

                //----------finally Add Custom Service To Service Collection-----------
                switch (InjectValue)
                {
                    case InjectType.Scopped:
                        if(interfaceService!=null)
                            services.AddScoped(interfaceService, classService);
                        else
                            services.AddScoped(classService);
                        break;
                    case InjectType.Transit:
                        if (interfaceService != null)
                            services.AddTransient(interfaceService, classService);
                        else
                            services.AddTransient(classService);
                        break;
                    case InjectType.SingleTon:
                        if (interfaceService != null)
                            services.AddSingleton(interfaceService, classService);
                        else
                            services.AddSingleton(classService);
                        break;
                    default:
                        break;
                }
                interfaceService = null;
            }
        }
       
    }
}

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new no-cost distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere.  

A few highlights for this release include:

• Support for 64-bit identity seed values
• Support for new BCL DateOnly and TimeOnly structs for SQLite
• Uniquify and validate check constraint names
• Pre-convention model configuration 

RapiDoc offers almost the same capabilities as SwaggerUI, but with a much nicer and more customizable UI.