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F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6
With the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, we’re excited to share updates to the F# language and core library, F# tooling in Visual Studio, and infrastructure updates that concern OSS...
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F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7
We’re excited to share updates about changes to F# and F# tools which shipped with the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 release. Let’s dive in! Type Providers now support .NET Standard For those who...
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Announcing F# 4.5
Today, we’re incredibly pleased to announce general availability of F# 4.5. This post will walk through the changes in F# 4.5 (just like the preview post), then show some updates to F# tooling, and...
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.NET Core tooling update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9
Update! Starting with Visual Studio 2019, the option has moved to: Tools > Options > Environment > Preview Features Old post for posterity: Starting with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9, we’ve...
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.NET Core tooling update for Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2
Another preview of Visual Studio 2019, another update on the cool stuff going into it! We’re pleased to announce some updates to the .NET Core tools for Visual Studio 2019. You can try these changes...
View ArticleAnnouncing F# 4.6 Preview
F# 4.6 is now fully released. See the announcement blog post for more. We’re excited to announce that Visual Studio 2019 will ship a new version of F# when it releases: F# 4.6! F# 4.6 is a smaller...
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Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update
In the coming days, we’ll be moving our developer blogs to a new platform with a modern, clean design and powerful features that will make it easy for you to discover and share great content. This...
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Announcing F# 4.6
We’re excited to announce general availability of F# 4.6 and the F# tools for Visual Studio 2019! In this post, I’ll show you how to get started, explain the F# 4.6 feature set, give you an update on...
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Visual Studio 2019 .NET productivity
Your friendly neighborhood .NET productivity team (aka. Roslyn) focuses a lot on improving the .NET coding experience. Sometimes it’s the little refactorings and code fixes that really improve your...
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The F# development home on GitHub is now dotnet/fsharp
TL;DR We’ve moved the F# GitHub repository from microsoft/visualfsharp to dotnet/fsharp, as specified in the corresponding RFC. F# has a somewhat strange history in its name and brand. If we roll back...
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Using Visual Studio Codespaces with .NET Core
What a time to be a .NET developer! Lots of great announcements at Build, new releases for .NET Core and new preview projects for cloud native development make me excited to be a .NET developer! One...
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.NET CLI Templates in Visual Studio
One of the values of using tools for development is the productivity they provide in helping start projects, bootstrapping dependencies, etc. One way that we’ve seen developers and companies deliver...
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Debug Your .NET Core Apps in WSL 2 with Visual Studio
Are you a .NET Core developer who loves working in Windows and Visual Studio, but needs to test your app in Linux? Are you a cross-platform developer that needs an easy way to test more of your target...
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Using GitHub Codespaces with .NET Core
In May of this year we announced Visual Studio Codespaces and early support for .NET Core developers. Since then we’ve had some early adopters try it out and they gave us great feedback. We’ve made a...
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What’s new in .NET Productivity
The .NET Productivity team (a.k.a. Roslyn) wants to help you be more productive! We’ve seen a lot of excitement in the past few months over our latest features which automate and reduce editing tasks...
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Generating HTTP API clients using Visual Studio Connected Services
We’re continuing our series on building HTTP APIs with .NET 5. In the first post in this series we talked about building well-described APIs using OpenAPI, and then followed that up taking a deeper...
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IntelliSense for appsettings.json
The appsettings.json file is a common way to configure .NET apps. ASP.NET Core uses appsettings.json and appsettings.${Environment}.json files to configure some of its most frequently used features,...
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Update on .NET Hot Reload progress and Visual Studio 2022 Highlights
Earlier this year we announced .NET Hot Reload, an ambitious project to bring Hot Reload to as many .NET developers as possible. We started this journey with a first preview available in Visual Studio...
View ArticleMSBuild and 64-bit Visual Studio 2022
Visual Studio’s shift to 64-bit means your builds in Visual Studio 2022 will run in a 64-bit MSBuild. This will not cause any problems for most people. However, if your build includes a task that is...
View ArticleEarly peek at C# 11 features
Visual Studio 17.1 (Visual Studio 2022 Update 1) and .NET SDK 6.0.200 include preview features for C# 11! You can update Visual Studio or download the latest .NET SDK to get these features. Check out...
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