v0.36.177

Highlights

• Add Identity Snippets for Resources (#17335)
• Update Bicep linter diagnostics to point to https://aka.ms/bicep/linter-diagnostics (#17390)
• Mark conditional resources as nullable for the purposes of property access (#16987)
• Typing improvements for extensions (#17242)

Features and Bug Fixes

• Handle union type properly in use-secure-value-for-secure-inputs rule (#17372)
• Update Azure.Deployments.Templates to latest (#17375)
• Fix extension collection reference codegen (#17381)
• Detect usage of fully-qualified non-deterministic functions in resource identifiers (#17505)
• Remove auxiliary file size limit for local deploy (#17506)
• Add (WIP) visual designer and resource type explorer apps (#17503)
• Add DeployTimeConstant Flag for Module Identity (#17383)
• Support ES target for highlight.js (#17285)
• Only use listOutputsWithSecureValues to dereference secure outputs (#17423)

Snapshot command

• Add support for null-valued parameters to snapshot command (#17291)
• Use the target scope of the template file as the target scope of a params file (#17292)
• Surface cross-module validation errors in snapshot command as messages, not unhandled exceptions (#17378)
• Enable speculative reference evaluation in snapshot helper (#17512)

Community Contributions

• Correct Param & Var Declarations (#17511) - thanks @rgant !
• Add Dependabot configuration for .NET SDK updates (#17424) - thanks @JamieMagee !
• Type definition code base and associated unit tests (#17391) - thanks @samirbanjanovic !