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Announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3

October 17, 2018 Oct 17, 2018 10/17/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3 as well as ASP.NET Core 2.2 Preview 3, and Entity Framework 2.2 Preview 3 release. .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3 can be used with Visual Studio 15.9 Preview 3 (or later), Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio Code. Download and test it out! We’re looking for feedback on the release with the intent of shipping the final version later this year.

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.2 Preview 3

October 17, 2018 Oct 17, 2018 10/17/18
Diego Vega
Entity Framework Core 2.2 Preview 3 available with a new preview of our data provider for Cosmos DB and updated spatial extensions for various providers. Preview 3 is going to be the last milestone before EF Core 2.2 RTM, so now is your last chance to try the bits and give us feedback if you want to have an impact on the quality and the shape of the APIs in this release.

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview3 now available

October 17, 2018 Oct 17, 2018 10/17/18
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
Today we're very happy to announce that the third preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. We’ve been working hard on this release, along with many folks from the community, and it’s now ready for a wider audience to try it out and provide the feedback that will continue to shape ...

Automating Release Notes with Azure Functions

October 16, 2018 Oct 16, 2018 10/16/18
Jasmine Greenaway
We can all agree that tracking the progress of a project enhances productivity and is an effective way to keep everyone involved of its progress. When it comes to managing your project in Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) or GitHub, you have all of your artifacts in one place: code, CI/CD pipelines, releases, work items, and more. In cases where ...

Guidance for library authors

October 15, 2018 Oct 15, 2018 10/15/18
James Newton-King
We've just published our first cut of the .NET Library Guidance. It's brand new set of articles for .NET developers who want to create high-quality libraries for .NET. The guidance contains recommendations we've identified as common best practices that apply to most public .NET libraries. We want to help .NET developers build great ...

Using .NET Hardware Intrinsics API to accelerate machine learning scenarios

October 10, 2018 Oct 10, 2018 10/10/18
Dan Moseley
This week's blog post is by Brian Lui, one of our summer interns on the .NET team, who's been hard at work. Over to Brian: Hello everyone! This summer I interned in the .NET team, working on ML.NET, an open-source machine learning platform which enables .NET developers to build and use machine learning models in their .NET applications. ...

You Should Never See This Callstack in Production

October 9, 2018 Oct 9, 2018 10/9/18
maoni
A customer who just experienced some server outage asked us for help as they thought it was due to some very long GC pauses. I thought this diagnostics exercise might be useful for other folks as well so I am sharing it with you. We had them collect a GCCollectOnly trace which showed there were some very long induced gen2 blocking GCs. And ...

.NET Core October 2018 Update – NET Core 1.0 and 1.1

October 9, 2018 Oct 9, 2018 10/9/18
Vivek Mishra
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core October 2018 Update for 1.0 and 1.1. This update includes .NET Core 1.0.13, 1.1.10 and .NET Core SDK 1.1.11. Security CVE-2018-8292: .NET Core Information Disclosure Vulnerability Microsoft is aware of a security feature bypass vulnerability that exists when .NET Core when HTTP authentication ...