Today, NuGet.org reached one billion downloads. This is a momentous achievement for our users and the community of package authors who continue to use and build new libraries that is the cornerstone of .NET adoption. We want to take this opportunity to give a huge thank you to the millions of our users who made this milestone possible. With the adv...
The IIS team has been working on a new RESTful API to manage your IIS configuration. While still under development, the team was eager to share a preview of the new API. The API allows configuration of IIS resources such as authorization rules, modules, and applications. The API has been built with Hypertext Application Language (HAL) to...
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, Scot...
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 ...
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 ...
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 litt...
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 speakers tha...
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 speakers t...
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 the .NET...
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 with disabilit...
