Announcing .NET Core 3.1
Announcing .NET Core 3.1 We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.1. It’s really just a small set of fixes and refinements over .NET Core 3.0, which we released just over two months ago....
View ArticleAnnouncing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4
Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4 We are excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.1 and EF 6.4 on nuget.org. The final versions of .NET Core 3.1 and ASP.NET...
View ArticleUpdates to .NET Core Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio 16.5 Preview 1
We are happy to announce the new preview version of the .NET Core Windows Forms designer, which is available with the Visual Studio 16.5 Preview 1. The big news is that the designer is now part of...
View Article.NET Core 2.2 will reach End of Life on December 23, 2019
.NET Core 2.2 was released on December 4, 2018. As a non-LTS (“Current”) release, it is supported for three months after the next release. .NET Core 3.0 was released on September 23, 2019. As a result,...
View ArticleGC Perf Infrastructure – Part 1
We open sourced our new GC Perf Infrastructure! It’s now part of the dotnet performance repo. I’ve been meaning to write about it ‘cause some curious minds had been asking when they could use it after...
View ArticleWe made Windows Server Core container images >40% smaller
Over the past year, we’ve been working with the Windows Server team to make Windows Server Core container images a lot smaller. They are now >40% smaller! The Windows Server team has already...
View Article.NET Framework December 2019 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the December 2019 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security No new security fixes. See September 2019 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security...
View ArticleAn Introduction to System.Threading.Channels
“Producer/consumer” problems are everywhere, in all facets of our lives. A line cook at a fast food restaurant, slicing tomatoes that are handed off to another cook to assemble a burger, which is...
View ArticleConfigureAwait FAQ
.NET added async/await to the languages and libraries over seven years ago. In that time, it’s caught on like wildfire, not only across the .NET ecosystem, but also being replicated in a myriad of...
View ArticleAn Introduction to DataFrame
Last month, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks, and showed how to use them to work with .NET for Apache Spark and ML.NET. Today, we’re announcing the preview of a DataFrame type for .NET...
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