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Announcing .NET 10
Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14...
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Improvements to the new Razor editor in Visual Studio
Learn all about the latest improvements to the new Razor editor in Visual Studio.
The Plan for Entity Framework Core 6.0
This blog post details the roadmap for Entity Framework Core 6.0.
Azure Active Directory’s gateway is on .NET Core 3.1!
Read about Azure Active Directory gateway service's move from .NET Framework to .NET Core.
Happy 10th Birthday, NuGet!
NuGet 1.0 was released on January 13th, 2011 – 10 years and 4 major version releases ago. Since then, NuGet.org has grown to host a large and vibrant package ecosystem with over 230 thousand unique packages.
Diagnostics improvements in .NET 5
Diagnostics improvements in .NET 5
.NET January 2021 Updates – 5.0.2, 3.1.11, 2.1.24
Today, we are releasing the .NET January 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.2 , 3.1.11, 2.1.24 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Security CVE-2021-1723: ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET 5. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to...
.NET Framework January Security and Quality Rollup Update
Today, we are releasing the January 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security The January Security and Quality Rollup Update does not contain any new security fixes. See October 2020 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 WPF2 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Security and Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, and Microsoft Update Catal...
Migrating RealProxy Usage to DispatchProxy
The RealProxy type is not available in .NET Core or .NET 5, but other replacement types have been added. This post looks at how DispatchProxy and Castle.Core's DynamicProxy enable AOP paradigms in .NET 5.
.NET 5 Networking Improvements
Introducing new networking features in .NET 5.