dotnetConf 2014 Wrapup
We just wanted to say thank you for your time attending the dotnetConf in June 2014 where we shared innovation and news about the present and future of .NET, all in a single place focusing on .NET...
View ArticleMultiDictionary becomes MultiValueDictionary
We just shipped an update to our experimental implementation of a multi value dictionary. In this post, our software developer intern Ian Hays talks about the changes. -- ImmoGoodbye MultiDictionaryIn...
View ArticleLeveraging existing code across .NET platforms
Today we are happy to announce the alpha release of the .NET Portability Analyzer extension for Visual Studio. Please try it out. This add-in was created by our software developer intern Charles...
View ArticleMoving to the .NET Framework 4.5.2
A few months ago we announced the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.2, a highly compatible, in-place update to the .NET 4.x family (.NET 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1). The .NET Framework 4.5.2 was released...
View ArticleAugust 2014 Security Updates
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-046 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework could allow Security...
View ArticleTry out the new releases: .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext, .NET Native...
Today, we are announcing updated versions of .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext, .NET Native and RyuJIT. You can try out these new releases by installing Visual Studio “14” CTP3. Please tell us what...
View ArticleBeing an intern on the .NET Team
This summer we had six amazing interns that joined the team to work on .NET. Their projects ranged from internal tools, over shipping components to designing forward looking aspects:Shaun Arora...
View ArticleUsing WCF in .NET Native
This post was authored by Ron Cain, a Software Development Engineer on the WCF team.In our previous post, we mentioned that some of the client components of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) had...
View ArticleSeptember 2014 .NET Security Updates
The .NET team released a security bulletin and a security advisory today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-053 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET...
View Article.NET Sample Code on GitHub
Today, we're happy to announce that we've started to move some of our sample assets over to GitHub, using the MIT license. So I can directly answer Ben's questionwith this tweet:Why did we move to...
View Article.NET Micro Framework now supports Visual Studio 2013
Today the .NET Micro Framework team is releasing a beta update of the .NET Micro Framework SDK that adds support for Visual Studio 2013. The release also contains other improvements that will benefit...
View ArticleAnnouncing October 2014 Updates to .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext and...
Today, we are announcing updates to the .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext and .NET Native. These are all available in Visual Studio “14” CTP4. This .NET Framework release contains RyuJIT, the next...
View ArticleOctober 2014 .NET Security Updates
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-057 - Critical, Vulnerabilities in the .NET Framework could allow remote...
View ArticleASP.NET MVC Security Bulletin MS14-059 ships to help secure .NET NuGet Libraries
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-059– Important: Vulnerability in ASP.NET MVC Could Allow Security Feature Bypass (2990942)This is the first release from Microsoft that uses Security Updates for .NET...
View ArticleUsing System.Numerics.Vector for Graphics Programming
We've just released a major update to the SIMD vector types we've blogged about earlier (first announcement, second update).We've now made the vector library a lot more more useful for typical graphics...
View ArticleNovember 2014 .NET Security Updates
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-072 - Important, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET
Today is a pivotal moment for .NET. With the release of .NET 2015 Preview, we are embarking on a new journey while maintaining our strong commitment to the 1+ billion customers that are using .NET...
View ArticleThe Roadmap for WPF
When we introduced WPF back in 2006 (.NET 3.0), the response was absolutely phenomenal. Enterprises, ISV’s, and Microsoft Partners have made the technology central to their business, building amazing...
View Article.NET Core is Open Source
Today is a huge day for .NET! We’re happy to announce that .NET Core will be open source, including the runtime as well as the framework libraries.This is a natural progression of our open source...
View ArticleOne Week of Open Source
Last Wednesday, we announced the new .NET 2015 Preview and our plans to fully open source .NET Core. What an awesome week!Thank you!We knew that you guys would really dig open source but we didn’t...
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