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Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.2

December 4, 2018 Dec 4, 2018 12/4/18
Diego Vega
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 technology. EF Core 2.2 RTM includes more than a hundred bug fixes and a few new features: Spatial data support Spatial data can be used to ...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.2, available today!

December 4, 2018 Dec 4, 2018 12/4/18
Damian Edwards
The main theme for this ASP.NET Core release was to improve developer productivity and platform functionality with regard to building Web/HTTP APIs. As usual, we made some performance improvements as well and posted about these features as part of the preview releases which you can read about by following the link below.

Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3694

November 28, 2018 Nov 28, 2018 11/28/18
namrata karnam
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 the coming months, and we would greatly appreciate it if you could help us ensure this is a high-quality release by trying it out and providing...

.NET Framework November 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup

November 27, 2018 Nov 27, 2018 11/27/18
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the November 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR SQL WCF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS bug number provided with each improvement is a unique ID ...

Razor support in Visual Studio Code now in Preview

November 16, 2018 Nov 16, 2018 11/16/18
Daniel Roth
Earlier this week we released a preview of support for working with Razor files (.cshtml) in the C# extension for Visual Studio Code (1.17.1). This initial release introduces C# completions, directive completions, and basic diagnostics (red squiggles for errors) for ASP.NET Core projects. Prerequisites To use this preview of Razor support in...

Running with Server GC in a Small Container Scenario Part 0

November 16, 2018 Nov 16, 2018 11/16/18
maoni
This week I was able to get some time to work on the container stuff with low memory limits. As many of you have expressed your dissatisfaction on how Server GC behaves with low memory limit specified on containers on github, I have to apologize that I am just doing this now. Really sorry that some of you guys have to suffer through this thus ...

Blazor 0.7.0 experimental release now available

November 15, 2018 Nov 15, 2018 11/15/18
Daniel Roth
Blazor 0.7.0 is now available! This release focuses on enabling component coordination across ancestor-descendent relationships. We've also added some improvements to the debugging experience. Here's what's new in the Blazor 0.7.0 release: A full list of the changes in this release can be found in the Blazor 0.7.0 release...

Handling a new era in the Japanese calendar in .NET

November 14, 2018 Nov 14, 2018 11/14/18
Ron Petrusha (MSFT)
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 with the reign of a new emperor. On April 30, 2019, Emperor Akihito is expected to abdicate, which will bring to an end the Heisei era. On the ...

ASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0

November 14, 2018 Nov 14, 2018 11/14/18
Brady Gaster
We've just shipped the final 2.4.0 version of ASP.NET SignalR, the version of SignalR for System.Web and/or OWIN-based applications. As we mentioned in a previous post on the future of ASP.NET SignalR, 2.4.0 is a minor release which contains some small bug fixes and updates. The majority of the features and fixes we implemented for ASP.NET ...