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CoreCLR is now Open Source

February 3, 2015 Feb 3, 2015 02/3/15
.NET Team
We’re excited to announce that CoreCLR is now open source on GitHub. CoreCLR is the .NET execution engine in .NET Core, performing functions such as garbage collection and compilation to machine code. .NET Core is a modular implementation of .NET that can be used as the base stack for a wide variety of scenarios, today scaling from console ...

ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 3.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3 Beta releases

December 17, 2014 Dec 17, 2014 12/17/14
Yishai G_
While the MVC team is working hard on MVC 6 as part of the ASP.NET 5 effort, we also keep working on the 5.x packages. Today we are releasing a Beta of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 5.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3.This preview release addresses 12 issues. Here is the full list.Highlight of issues fixedWeb API Issues2092 Significant performance ...

Content negotiation in MVC 6 (or how can I just write JSON)

November 24, 2014 Nov 24, 2014 11/24/14
Yishai G_
[Update] - We decided to make two significant changes starting with Beta3, we are to not include the XML formatter by default, as well as special treat browsers. The content below is still relevant up to MVC 6 Beta2.IntroIn this blog, I intend to provide a simplified how-things-work and how-to-change-the-behavior. It is not intended as a deep ...

Announcing October 2014 Updates to .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext and .NET Native in Visual Studio “14” CTP4

October 6, 2014 Oct 6, 2014 10/6/14
.NET Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. 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 generation X64 JIT. ASP.NET vNext contains major improvements in ...

Announcing the Release of Web API OData 5.3

September 11, 2014 Sep 11, 2014 09/11/14
Andrew Zhou from Microsoft
The NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: What’s in this release?This release primarily includes great new features for Web API OData v4 as ...

Announcing the Release Candidates for Web API OData 5.3

August 27, 2014 Aug 27, 2014 08/27/14
Andrew Zhou from Microsoft
The release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: What’s in this release?This release primarily includes great new ...

dotnetConf 2014 Wrapup

July 2, 2014 Jul 2, 2014 07/2/14
.NET Team
(image) 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 technologies.  You may have missed sessions during the streaming delivered on June 25th and 26th, so, for your convenience, we’d ...

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET vNext

June 17, 2014 Jun 17, 2014 06/17/14
Victor Hurdugaci
Dependency Injection (DI) is a software design pattern, a particular case of the Inversion of Control pattern, in which one or more dependencies are injected into dependent objects. The pattern is used to create program designs that are loosely coupled and testable. This article assumes that you are already familiar with DI. If not, you can ...