Episode 17: News from April 15th, 2020 through May 6th, 2020

THE NEWS

FROM REDMOND

• Introducing Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development for wherever you’re working
• Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Release Candidate now available
• Introducing C# Source Generators
• Exception Helper – Rethrown Exceptions
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 3
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 3
• Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 3
• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5.4
• Visual Studio 2019 v16.6 Preview 5
• npm has joined GitHub
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5.5 (8.5.5.7)

AROUND THE WORLD

• Rider 2020.1 Is Released!
• ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1: Improved Support for C# 8.0 and C++20, Dataflow Analysis of Integer Values, and Much More
• JetBrains Academy for learning code launches for free during COVID-19 pandemic
• Microsoft Build 2020 registration is not only open, it’s FREE, it’s LIVE, it’s VIRTUAL, and it is all FOR YOU
• Announcing PostSharp 6.6: more free goodies and new licensing options

PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

CoreBoyCoreBoy is a cross platform GameBoy Emulator written in C# that even does ASCII

Also, be sure and check out the Project of the Week archives!

SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS

• .NET Bytes on Twitter
• Matt Groves is:
  • Tweeting on Twitter
  • Live Streaming on Twitch
• Calvin Allen is:
  • Tweeting on Twitter
  • Live Streaming on Twitch