September 2022 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework
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.NET MAUI is now part of .NET 7 in RC1 with tons of improvements, and a few new features.
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We are working hard on improving the diagnostics experience in MSVC and Visual Studio. We began this work in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3 and while not everything is ready yet, we would like to share the early progress.
Motivation &
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.NET 7 Release Candidate 1 is now available! Check out what's new in ASP.NET Core in this update.
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.NET 7 Release Candidate 1 is the first of two release candidates that developers can now use in production. This post recaps major features included in the fastest .NET version to date.
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Announcing EF7 Release Candidate 1
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We are happy to share with you that we have added Dev Container support In Visual Studio 2022 17.4 for C++ projects using CMake Presets.

Containers are a great way to package up everything for running an application. Through a Dockerfile all prerequisites are captured so that there is a consistent runtime environment anywhere the container is deployed and run Dev Containers expand this concept to capture everything necessary for developing and building an application in the container.
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In Visual Studio 2022 17.4 vcpkg environments will now automatically activate. A vcpkg environment is described by a manifest that captures the artifacts necessary for building your application (learn more about vcpkg artifacts). Today the vcpkg artifact experience is focused on embedded developers,
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The Assignments and Grades features in Teams have seen exponential growth in usage as schools around the world have undergone a digital transformation. To better meet the needs of teachers and students, we have recently migrated our backend service to .NET 6.
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September 2022 Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework
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Check out September updates for .NET 6.0 and .NET Core 3.1
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C++20 has had a lot to offer and one feature in particular requires the most thought of all when integrating into our projects: C++ modules (or C++ header units in this particular case). In this blog we will show a real world case of integrating a new C++20 feature into a large codebase that we might all be familiar with.
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.NET 7 introduces a plethora of performance improvements for developers including developers targeting Arm64 devices. In this blog I break down everything you need to know about the improvements in .NET 7.
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.NET is now available to install through the Windows Package Manager (Winget). Read all about how what it is, how to install, and more.
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The Microsoft C++ team has an exciting lineup of sessions at CppCon 2022. Many of us will also be present at our team’s booth in the main hall for the first two days of the conference. Come say hi and let us know if you have any questions about our talks,
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In the world of Arm microcontrollers there are many silicon vendors, one of the largest is STMicroelectronics. ST has a large catalog of available devices with many capabilities as well as supporting development boards for evaluating them. They also produce STM32CubeIDE,
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The August 2022 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from July 25th, 2022 to August 14th, 2022 for the Microsoft/vcpkg and Microsoft/vcpkg-tool GitHub repos.

Some stats for this period:
8 new ports were added to the open-source registry.
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Visual Studio Build Tools (VSBT) can now be used for compiling open-source C++ dependencies from source without requiring a Visual Studio license, even when you are working for an enterprise on a commercial or closed-source project.

This change expands user rights to the Build Tools and does not limit the existing Visual Studio Community license provisions around Open-Source development.
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Last year, Microsoft announced x64 compatibility for Windows 11 on Arm, along with the new Arm64EC ABI, a new way to bring apps to Windows on Arm. With Arm64EC you can mix Arm and x64 code in the same process, allowing you to port existing x64 apps to Arm in an incremental way.
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