.NET Core Source Code Analysis with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier
This post was written by Varun Venkatesan, Li Tian, Denis Pravdin, who are engineers at Intel. They are excited to share .NET Core-specific enhancements that Intel has made to VTune Amplifier 2019. You...
View ArticleBringing .NET application performance analysis to Linux
Both the Windows and Linux ecosystems have a swath of battle-hardened performance analysis and investigation tools. But up until recently, developers and platform engineers could use none of these...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3673
We are happy to share the next Early Access build for the .NET Framework 4.8. This includes an updated .NET 4.8 runtime as well as the .NET 4.8 Developer Pack (a single package that bundles the .NET...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Standard 2.1
Since we shipped .NET Standard 2.0 about a year ago, we’ve shipped two updates to .NET Core 2.1 and are about to release .NET Core 2.2. It’s time to update the standard to include some of the new...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Whys, Whats, and Whens of ValueTask
The .NET Framework 4 saw the introduction of the System.Threading.Tasks namespace, and with it the Task class. This type and the derived Task<TResult> have long since become a staple of .NET...
View ArticleAnnouncing ML.NET 0.7 (Machine Learning .NET)
We’re excited to announce today the release of ML.NET 0.7 – the latest release of the cross-platform and open source machine learning framework for .NET developers (ML.NET 0.1 was released at //Build...
View ArticleBuilding C# 8.0
Building C# 8.0 The next major version of C# is C# 8.0. It’s been in the works for quite some time, even as we built and shipped the minor releases C# 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3, and I’m quite excited about the...
View ArticleCross-platform Time Zones with .NET Core
Developing applications that span multiple operating systems in .NET Core while working with Time Zone information can lead to unexpected results for developers not familiar with the differences in how...
View Article.NET Core tooling update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9
Starting with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9, we’ve changed how the Visual Studio tooling for .NET consumes .NET Core SDKs. Prior to this change, installing a preview version of the .NET Core SDK...
View Article.NET Framework November 2018 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the November 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security No new security fixes. See .NET Framework September 2018 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates....
View ArticleHandling a new era in the Japanese calendar in .NET
Typically, calendar eras represent long time periods. In the Gregorian calendar, for example, the current era spans (as of this year) 2,018 years. In the Japanese calendar, however, a new era begins...
View Article.NET Framework November 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the November 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Addressed an issue with...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3694
We are happy to let you know that .NET Framework 4.8 is now feature complete and we have an early access build to share with you all! We will continue to stabilize this release and take more fixes over...
View ArticleAnnouncing ML.NET 0.8 – Machine Learning for .NET
ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform framework (Windows, Linux, macOS) which makes machine learning accessible for .NET developers. ML.NET allows you to create and use machine learning models...
View ArticleAnnouncing Entity Framework Core 2.2
Today we’re making the final version of EF Core 2.2 available, alongside ASP.NET Core 2.2 and .NET Core 2.2. This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform object-database mapping...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Core 2.2
We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.2. It includes diagnostic improvements to the runtime, support for ARM32 for Windows and Azure Active Directory for SQL Client. The biggest...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1. It is the first public release of .NET Core 3. We have some exciting new features to share and would love your feedback. You can develop .NET Core 3...
View Article.NET Framework December 5, 2018 Preview of Cumulative Update for Windows 10...
Today, we are releasing the December 5, 2018 Preview of .NET Framework Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019. For more information about the new Cumulative Updates for...
View ArticleTake C# 8.0 for a spin
Take C# 8.0 for a spin Yesterday we announced the first preview of both Visual Studio 2019 (Making every developer more productive with Visual Studio 2019) and .NET Core 3.0 (Announcing .NET Core 3...
View ArticleOpen Sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF
Today, we are excited to announce that we are open sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF. In the past, we open sourced XAML Behaviors for UWP which has been a great success and the Behaviors NuGet package...
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