Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 2
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 2. It includes new features in .NET Core 3.0 and C# 8, in addition to the large number of new features in Preview 1. ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 2 is also...
View ArticleSubmit to the Applied F# Challenge!
This post was written by Lena Hall, a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. F# Software Foundation has recently announced their new initiative — Applied F# Challenge! We encourage you to...
View ArticleAnnouncing ML.NET 0.10 – Machine Learning for .NET
ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework (Windows, Linux, macOS) for .NET developers. Using ML.NET, developers can leverage their existing tools and skillsets to develop...
View Article.NET Core February 2019 Updates – 1.0.14, 1.1.11, 2.1.8 and 2.2.2
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core February 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on included reliability fixes. .NET Core...
View Article.NET Framework February 2019 Security and Quality Rollup
Updated: February 19, 2019 The advisory is now resolved with no action needed from Microsoft Customers. The issue was not applicable to any valid or supported configuration. There is no consequence for...
View ArticleHelp us make the .NET Architecture guides better for you!
Over the last couple of years, we worked with experts to create some incredible architecture guides & reference samples for .NET developers. We focused on Microservices Architecture, Modernizing...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update
In the coming days, we’ll be moving our developer blogs to a new platform with a modern, clean design and powerful features that will make it easy for you to discover and share great content. This...
View ArticleRESOLVED: Advisory on February 2019 Security update for Windows 10 update 1809
Final Update 2/19/19 @1:30 PM (PST): This advisory is now resolved with no action needed from Microsoft Customers. The issue was not applicable to any valid or supported configuration. There is no...
View Article.NET Core 1.0 and 1.1 will reach End of Life on June 27, 2019
.NET Core 1.0 was released on June 27, 2016 and .NET Core 1.1 was released on November 16, 2016. As an LTS release, .NET Core 1.0 is supported for three years. .NET Core 1.1 fits into the same support...
View Article.NET Framework February 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup
Today, we released the February 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Addresses an issue in...
View ArticleAnnouncing .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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