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Get the latest .NET Bits
We maintain a set of pages that make it easier for you to find all the .NET Framework versions, SDKs, and targeting packs that you can take advantage of in your .NET apps, as we mentioned last year on...
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HttpClient 2.2 is now RC
Today we are happy to announce the next step in providing a portable HttpClient with automatic decompression: we just pushed the RC version to NuGet.From Beta to RTMWe haven’t changed much since the...
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Responsible for a million dollar software project, but don’t know where to...
This post was written by Cesar De la Torre Llorente, a member of the .NET Marketing team. Cesar provides guidance on .NET to customers and to sales, marketing, and support professionals at Microsoft.We...
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HttpClient 2.2 is now stable
As promised, we’ve just pushed the RTM version of HttpClient 2.2 to NuGet. This version adds support for automatic decompression. As announced here, this doesn’t require a dependency on...
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Advise the .NET Framework Team
This post was written by Rich Lander, a Program Manager on the .NET Framework team. He’s also the one posting as @DotNet on Twitter. Late last month, we released the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview. We’re...
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Wondering why mscorsvw.exe has high CPU usage? You can speed it up.
This post was written by Rich Lander, a Program Manager on the .NET Framework Team. It was written for people who want to understand why mscorsvw.exe is running on their machines and want to know how...
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Got a need for speed? .NET apps start faster.
This post was written by Rich Lander, who works as a Program Manager on the .NET Framework. He worked on AutoNGEN for Windows 8.This post focuses on how technologies such as Native Image Generator...
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Documentation updates for .NET 4.5.1
This post describes the changes that we’ve made to .NET Framework documentation for the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Cheryl Simmons, who works on the .NET Framework documentation team.In the...
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Building apps with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview in Visual Studio 2012
This post describes how to add targeting support for the .NET Framework 4.5.1 in Visual Studio 2012. It was written by Rich Lander, who worked on the original multi-targeting support in Visual Studio...
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Announcing the EventSource NuGet Package – Write to the Windows Event Log
We are announcing the EventSource NuGet package, which enables fast app tracing to the Windows Event Log, including in production. This post was written by Cosmin Radu, a software developer on the .NET...
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Announcing TraceEvent – Monitoring and Diagnostics for the Cloud
In this post, Vance Morrison, software developer on the .NET Runtime team, will talk about the TraceEvent NuGet library we just shipped. -- ImmoI am happy to report that we have just released the...
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Improved Package Restore
As we’ve previously explained we receive various reports on how our NuGet packages don’t play nicely with NuGet’s package restore feature. In this blog post I’ll talk about an update we shipped to our...
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Portable Compression is now stable
Today we are happy to announce that our portable compression library is now available as a stable NuGet package.Microsoft.Bcl.CompressionMicrosoft.Bcl.Compression provides the following APIs in a...
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NuGet Package Restore with Team Foundation Build
Note: This post is now also part of the official NuGet documentation.In this post, I’ll provide a walkthrough on how to use package restore with Team Foundation Build with both, git as well TF version...
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Updated NuGet Support in Visual Studio 2012.4
As Brian Harry recently announced, there will be a Visual Studio 2012 Update 4. With RC2, we’ve updated the NuGet support. In this blog post, I’ll summarize those improvements.Updated NuGet ClientThe...
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Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC
The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC is now available. It comes with a go-live license, enabling you to deploy 4.5.1 apps in production. Here are the RC bits. Download them. Try them out. Tell us what you...
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Immutable collections are now RC
Over the past several months, we’ve been working on a new set of collection types that offer an immutable design. Today we are happy to announce that we are one step closer to a stable version of this...
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Immutable collections ready for prime time
Today I’m very happy to announce that we released the stable version of the Microsoft.Bcl.Immutable NuGet package. We also published the MSDN documentation on immutable collections.Thank you!Nine...
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RyuJIT: The next-generation JIT compiler for .NET
This post introduces the .NET team’s new 64-bit Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler. It was written by Andrew Pardoe, PM Manager for the CLR Runtime PM team. The world is moving to 64-bit computing even though...
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ASP.NET App Suspend – responsive shared .NET web hosting
This post introduces ASP.NET App Suspend, which is a game-changing feature in the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It radically changes the user experience and economic model for hosting large numbers of ASP.NET...
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