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F# 5 and F# tools update for June
F# 5 and F# tools update for June
Phillip CarterJune 26, 2020Jun 26, 202006/26/20
We’re excited to announce more updates to F# 5 today! We shipped an initial set of features with F# 5 preview 1, and they have all been stabilizing since that release including a updates from last month. Today, we’re happy to announce some new language features, a sneak peek at using F# in VSCode notebooks, and some F# tooling updates that
Announcing Entity Framework Core EFCore 5.0 Preview 6
Announcing Entity Framework Core EFCore 5.0 Preview 6
Jeremy LiknessJune 25, 2020Jun 25, 202006/25/20
Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the sixth preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes split queries for related collections, a new "index" attribute, improved exceptions related to query translations, IP address mapping, exposing transaction id for correlation, and much more. Prerequisites EF Core 5.0 will not run o
Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 6
Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 6
AvatarJune 25, 2020Jun 25, 202006/25/20
Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 6. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but some are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be feature-complete with Previ
Introducing dotnet-monitor, an experimental tool
Introducing dotnet-monitor, an experimental tool
AvatarJune 23, 2020Jun 23, 202006/23/20
dotnet-monitor is an experimental tool that makes it easier to get access to diagnostics information in a dotnet process. When running a dotnet application differences in diverse local and production environments can make collecting diagnostics artifacts (e.g., logs, traces, process dumps) challenging. dotnet-monitor aims to simplify the pr
Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5
Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5
Jeremy LiknessJune 10, 2020Jun 10, 202006/10/20
Announcing the release of Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5 featuring database collations, flowing arguments to IDesignTimeDbContextFactory, no tracking queries with identity resolution, stored (persisted) columns and SQLite computed columns.
Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 5
Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 5
AvatarJune 10, 2020Jun 10, 202006/10/20
Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 5. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but many are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be very close to feature-compl
.NET Core June 2020 Updates – 2.1.19 and 3.1.5
.NET Core June 2020 Updates – 2.1.19 and 3.1.5
Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)June 9, 2020Jun 9, 202006/9/20
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core June 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Security CVE-2020-1108: .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability To comprehensively address CVE-2020-1108, Microsoft has released updates for .NET Core 2.1 a
Help us improve WPF and UWP XAML designer
Help us improve WPF and UWP XAML designer
Olia GavryshMay 28, 2020May 28, 202005/28/20
We would like to make your experience developing WPF and UWP applications in Visual Studio better! Currently we are investigating ways of improving the XAML Designer and making you more productive while developing UI for your apps. You can already check out our preview version of the new feature called Suggested Actions that enables easy ac