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Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – May 3, 2016

May 9, 2016 May 9, 2016 05/9/16
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 Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes...

.NET Core RC2 – Improvements, Schedule, and Roadmap

May 6, 2016 May 6, 2016 05/6/16
Bertrand Le Roy
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This post was written by Scott Hunter. You all want .NET Core 1.0 RC2, you want a schedule, and you want to go live. Today we've got a schedule to share plus some changes that will improve things for everyone in the .NET Community going forward. The Core Schedule...

.NET Core RC2 – Improvements, Schedule, and Roadmap

May 6, 2016 May 6, 2016 05/6/16
Bertrand Le Roy
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This post was written by Scott Hunter. You all want .NET Core 1.0 RC2, you want a schedule, and you want to go live. Today we've got a schedule to share plus some changes that will improve things for everyone in the .NET Community going forward. The Core Schedule...

Tooling to Facilitate Framework Migrations

May 5, 2016 May 5, 2016 05/5/16
Bertrand Le Roy
This post was written by Mike Rousos, a software engineer on the .NET team. Introduction In this recent post, Taylor introduced the .NET Framework Compatibility Diagnostics, a set of Roslyn-based code analyzers for detecting when an app is likely to encounter compatibility issues between two versions of the .NET Framework. This article gives a...

The week in .NET – 5/3/2016

May 3, 2016 May 3, 2016 05/3/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/27/2016. Evolve conference Xamarin Evolve, the largest cross-platform mobile event in the world, happened last week. The .NET team was there to celebrate all things Xamarin with our good friends, and now colleagues. All the sessions can be watched on YouTube, with an incredible cast of ...

The week in .NET – 5/3/2016

May 3, 2016 May 3, 2016 05/3/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/27/2016. Evolve conference Xamarin Evolve, the largest cross-platform mobile event in the world, happened last week. The .NET team was there to celebrate all things Xamarin with our good friends, and now colleagues. All the sessions can be watched on YouTube, with an incredible cast of ...

Introduction to .NET Framework Compatibility

May 2, 2016 May 2, 2016 05/2/16
Bertrand Le Roy
This post was written by Mike Rousos, a software engineer on the .NET team. Introduction Beginning with the .NET Framework 4.0, all versions of the .NET Framework with a major version number of 4 (called ‘4.x’ versions) install as in-place updates. This means that only one 4.x .NET Framework is installed on a computer at a time. Installing...

Building accessible websites just got a lot easier

May 2, 2016 May 2, 2016 05/2/16
Mads Kristensen
(image) When building websites it is important that it is accessible for everyone that needs to use it. Implementing web accessibility features greatly helps to achieve that. Here’s what the W3C has to say about that: Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people...