Introduction to .NET Framework Compatibility
This post was written by Mike Rousos, a software engineer on the .NET team. Introduction Beginning with the .NET Framework 4.0, all versions of the .NET Framework with a major version number of 4...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 5/3/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 4/27/2016. Evolve conference Xamarin Evolve, the largest cross-platform mobile event in the world, happened last week. The .NET team was there to...
View ArticleTooling to Facilitate Framework Migrations
This post was written by Mike Rousos, a software engineer on the .NET team. Introduction In this recent post, Taylor introduced the .NET Framework Compatibility Diagnostics, a set of Roslyn-based code...
View Article.NET Core RC2 – Improvements, Schedule, and Roadmap
This post was written by Scott Hunter. You all want .NET Core 1.0 RC2, you want a schedule, and you want to go live. Today we’ve got a schedule to share plus some changes that will improve things for...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 5/10/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 5/3/2016. On.NET Last week in On .NET, we had the pleasure to speak with Andy De George about SadConsole, his text-based gaming engine. This week’s...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Core RC2 and .NET Core SDK Preview 1
Today, we are announcing the release of .NET Core RC2. You can use it to build ASP.NET Core, console apps and class libraries for Windows, OS X and Linux. RC2 is a major update from the November RC1...
View ArticleAnnouncing Entity Framework Core RC2
Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core RC2 available. This coincides with the release of .NET...
View ArticleReleasing F# Language Documentation as Open-Source
Guest post by Den Delimarsky, Program Manager, Cloud & Enterprise Continuing our efforts to make our documentation more flexible and open, we are releasing the F# language documentation as...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 5/16/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 5/10/2016. We shipped! Yesterday, we released ASP.NET Core RC2, .NET Core RC2, and the preview 1 of the associated SDK. We also released Entity...
View ArticleHappy 25th Birthday, VB!
That’s right! Today marks the 25th (“Silver Anniversary”) since VB first debuted to the world. It seems like just yesterday I’d only been at Microsoft a little over a year when VB turned 20. Looking...
View ArticleChanges to Project.json
This post was written by Scott Hunter. Last week we announced the schedule for RC2 / RTM of .NET Core and ASP.NET. Now that we have shipped RC2 I want to give more details on the .NET Core tooling...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 5/24/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 5/16/2016. On.NET Last week on the show, we had Miguel de Icaza: This week, we’ll speak with Maoni Stephens, who works on .NET’s GC. Package of the...
View ArticleMaking it easier to port to .NET Core
In my last post, I talked about porting to .NET Core and requested feedback from our community on what their experience was and what we could improve. This sparked many great conversations with our...
View ArticleTuple Tuesday!
One of the central features we’re trying to add to both VB and C# in the near future is tuples. If you’ve never heard of a tuple it’s a primitive data structure for combining values together that many...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 5/31/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 5/24/2016. DotNetConf 7-9 June Are you ready to rediscover .NET? Well, dotnetConf is back! Immerse yourself in the world of .NET and join our live...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 06/07/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 5/31/2016. DotNetConf 7-9 June Are you ready to rediscover .NET? Well, dotnetConf is back! Immerse yourself in the world of .NET and join our live...
View ArticleThank you for watching dotnetConf 2016!
dotnetConf 2016 is a wrap! Thank you to all who tuned in live on Channel 9, asked questions, and participated in our twitter feed. We had a lot of awesome sessions from various product teams and...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 6/14/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 06/07/2016. On .NET Last week, we spoke with Daniel Egloff from QuantAlea about their very cool GPU technology that enables C# and F# code to be...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 6/21/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 6/14/2016. On .NET Last week, we spoke with Pratap Lakshman about MS Test, and about running tests for .NET Core in general. This week, we’ll speak with...
View Article.NET Core Roadmap
This post was written by Scott Hunter. It has been about two weeks since we shipped .NET Core / ASP.NET Core 1.0. The team has used the past two weeks to take a deep breath, and is now getting started...
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