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January 2015 - .NET Blog

.NET Core Open Source Update

January 28, 2015 Jan 28, 2015 01/28/15
Immo Landwerth
Wow. Just wow. I don’t know of a better way to describe my feelings right now. Open source is probably one of the most energizing projects our team has been working on. It’s been a blast so far and the stream of enthusiastic contributors and interactions doesn’t seem to stop any time soon. In this post, I want to give you a long ...

Making It Better: Updates for ASP.NET 5 in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5

January 16, 2015 Jan 16, 2015 01/16/15
Jeffrey Fritz
It's been about two months since we released the first beta of ASP.NET 5, and today we happy to announce that ASP.NET 5 Beta2 is available. For developers using Visual Studio, you'll find great new tools to support and enhance your development process.  All ASP.NET developers will be able to take advantage of a new runtime and many ...

API review process for .NET Core

January 8, 2015 Jan 8, 2015 01/8/15
Immo Landwerth
Happy new year! Three weeks ago we published a proposal for an API review process on GitHub and asked for your feedback. The process is now in-place and documented in our developer wiki. Review process Our primary goal with this review process is to provide a good balance between OSS agility and ensuring high quality APIs. This requires...