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May 2020 - .NET Blog

Help us improve WPF and UWP XAML designer

May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 05/28/20
Olia Gavrysh
We would like to make your experience developing WPF and UWP applications in Visual Studio better! Currently we are investigating ways of improving the XAML Designer and making you more productive while developing UI for your apps. You can already check out our preview version of the new feature called Suggested Actions that enables easy ...

Introducing Project Tye

May 21, 2020 May 21, 2020 05/21/20
Amiee Lo
Project Tye Project Tye is an experimental developer tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier. When building an app made up of multiple projects, you often want to run more than one at a time, such as a website that communicates with a backend API or several services all ...

Welcome to C# 9.0

May 20, 2020 May 20, 2020 05/20/20
Mads Torgersen
Note: This post is out of date. Now that C# 9.0 has been released, an updated version can be found here. C# 9.0 is taking shape, and I'd like to share our thinking on some of the major features we're adding to this next version of the language. With every new version of C# we strive for greater clarity and simplicity in common coding ...

F# 5 and F# tools update

May 20, 2020 May 20, 2020 05/20/20
Phillip Carter
We're excited to announce some updates to F# 5 today! We shipped a lot of preview features since F# 5 preview 1, and they have all been stabilizing since that release. Today, we're happy to announce some minor additions to F# 5 and talk about some pretty cool performance work we've been doing. Here's how you get the latest release: ...

ML.NET Model Builder is now a part of Visual Studio

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20
Bri Achtman
ML.NET is a cross-platform, machine learning framework for .NET developers. Model Builder is the UI tooling in Visual Studio that uses Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) to train and consume custom ML.NET models in your .NET apps. You can use ML.NET and Model Builder to create custom machine learning models without having prior machine ...