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Announcing .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC

October 29, 2015 Oct 29, 2015 10/29/15
The .NET Fundamentals Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is not supported. We are pleased to announce the release of .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC today. This release includes ~150 fixes and some new features. You can read about the new fixes and features that are included in the RC release and try out the bits ...

.NET Core and ASP.NET Launches a Beta Bug Bounty Program.

October 20, 2015 Oct 20, 2015 10/20/15
Jeffrey Fritz
A guest post from Barry Dorrans, the security lead for ASP.NETToday, with great excitement, we announce an introductory 3 month bug bounty program for .NET Core and ASP.NET, our new open source, cross platform runtime and web stack. The program encompasses the latest beta version, beta 8 and any subsequent beta or release candidates ...

Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta8

October 15, 2015 Oct 15, 2015 10/15/15
Daniel Roth
ASP.NET 5 beta8 is now available both on NuGet and as a tooling update to Visual Studio 2015! This release greatly expands the supported surface area of .NET Core on OS X and Linux. You can now use networking, cryptography and globalization features cross-platform! This release also includes some nice improvements to ASP.NET 5, DNX and ...

Receive WebHooks from Azure Alerts and Kudu (Azure Web App Deployment)

October 3, 2015 Oct 3, 2015 10/3/15
Henrik F Nielsen
The Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks preview is moving forward! We have received two very cool source contributions adding support for Kudu (Azure Web App Deployment) and Bitbucket. There is a sample for Bitbucket, but here we will focus on Kudu as well as Azure Alerts which just announced support for WebHooks. Kudu provides a ton of functionality ...

Announcing the ASP.NET WebHooks Visual Studio Extension Preview

September 29, 2015 Sep 29, 2015 09/29/15
Brady Gaster
After a few days of work, I’m excited to introduce you to the ASP.NET WebHooks preview support we’ve put together for Visual Studio developers. This tool bootstraps your ASP.NET project with the NuGet packages and configuration code you’ll need so you can add custom processing for incoming WebHook requests from third parties like GitHub...

What’s new for .NET and UWP in Win10 Tools 1.1

September 28, 2015 Sep 28, 2015 09/28/15
Rich Lander [MSFT]
This post was written by Lucian Wischik, Program Manager on the Managed Languages team. Last week we updated the Visual Studio tools for Universal Windows Apps. The easiest way to get the update is within Visual Studio, under Tools > Extensions > Updates. (Also read the release notes). As part of this update, we're including a new ...

ASP.NET Community Standup – September 15, 2015

September 22, 2015 Sep 22, 2015 09/22/15
Jeffrey Fritz
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup.  The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET 5 framework over the previous week.  Within 30 minutes...

Integrating with Instagram using ASP.NET WebHooks Preview

September 21, 2015 Sep 21, 2015 09/21/15
Henrik F Nielsen
In the blog Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview, we gave an overview of how to work with Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks. We described how you get out-of-the-box support for a variety of WebHooks providers such as Dropbox, GitHub, MailChimp, PayPal, Slack, Salesforce, Trello, as well as being able to write your own. In this blog we ...

Deploy to Azure from GitHub with Application Insights

September 16, 2015 Sep 16, 2015 09/16/15
Sergey Kanzhelev
Browsing GitHub the other day I found an interesting button in README: Deploy to Azure. This button intrigued me to say the least. With one click I can create my own instance of that web app and try it out. Isn’t it great? And it’s very easy to insert into your own GitHub repo. But every app should include monitoring! So I’ll show you ...

Our Summer Internship on the .NET Team

September 15, 2015 Sep 15, 2015 09/15/15
.NET Team
This post was written by Microsoft Explorer interns Daniel King, Zoë Petard, and Jessica Petty and highlights their project & experiences this summer working on the .NET Roslyn team. We loved having them this summer! Roslyn Diagnostic Analyzer Tutorial Tired of frustrating compile-time errors? Analyzers can examine code as you type...