.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 ML.NET 1.4 Preview and Model Builder updates (Machine Learning for...
We are excited to announce ML.NET 1.4 Preview and updates to Model Builder and CLI. ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET developers. ML.NET also includes...
View ArticleHardware Intrinsics in .NET Core
Several years ago, we decided that it was time to support SIMD code in .NET. We introduced the System.Numerics namespace with Vector2, Vector3, Vector4, Vector<T>, and related types. These types...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9
Today, we’re announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9. Just like with Preview 8, we’ve focused on polishing .NET Core 3.0 for a final release and aren’t adding new features. If these final builds seem less...
View ArticleAnnouncing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 9 and Entity Framework 6.3...
The Preview 9 versions of the EF Core 3.0 package and the EF 6.3 package are now available for download from nuget.org. These are the last planned previews before we release the final versions later...
View ArticleGC Perf Infrastructure – Part 0
In this blog entry and some future ones I will be showing off functionalities that our new GC perf infrastructure provides. Andy and I have been working on it (he did all the work; I merely played the...
View Article.NET Core September 2019 Updates – 2.1.13 and 2.2.7
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core September 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a...
View Article.NET Framework September 2019 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the September 2019 Cumulative Update, Security and Quality Rollup, and Security Only Update for .NET Framework. Security CVE-2019-1142– .NET Framework Elevation of Privilege...
View ArticleFinalization implementation details
Years ago I wrote a document on making finalization scanning concurrent. At the time there was an internal team that was using finalization as a way to resurrect objects and putting them back in their...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1
Today, we’re announcing .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1. Just like with Preview 9, we’ve focused on polishing .NET Core 3.0 for a final release. We are now getting very, very close. We intend to...
View ArticleRelease Candidate builds of Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework...
We previously said that preview 9 would be your last chance to test EF Core 3.0 and EF 6.3 before general availability. But it turns out that we made enough improvements to our libraries and across the...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Core 3.0
Announcing .NET Core 3.0 We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and...
View ArticleAnnouncing F# 4.7
We’re excited to announce general availability of F# 4.7 in conjunction with the .NET Core 3.0 release! In this post, I’ll show you how to get started, explain everything in F# 4.7 and give you a sneak...
View ArticleAnnouncing Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 General...
We are extremely excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.0and EF 6.3 on nuget.org. The final versions of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available now. How to get EF Core...
View ArticleJoining the .NET Foundation Maturity Model Pilot
Joining the .NET Foundation Maturity Model Pilot The .NET Foundation is starting a new pilot program to increase quality and user confidence in open source projects, using a new project maturity model....
View ArticleAnnouncing .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...
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