November 2016 | .NET Blog

The week in .NET – Cosmos on On.NET, GongSolutions.WPF.DragDrop, Transistor

Bertrand Le RoyNovember 29, 2016Nov 29, 201611/29/16

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1 – Docker – Xenko. On .NET Last week, Chad Z. Hower, a.k.a. Kudzu was on the show to talk about Cosmos, a C# open source managed operating system: This week, we'll speak with Xavier Decoster and Maarten Balliauw about MyGet. The show is on ...

The week in .NET – .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1 – Docker – Xenko

Bertrand Le RoyNovember 22, 2016Nov 22, 201611/22/16

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – Mitch Muenster – Stateless. .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1, VS for Mac Preview, VS 2017 RC, SQL Server on Linux, Tizen, Google joins .NET Foundation, and Microsoft becomes a Linux Foundation platinum member This week, at the Connect(); // 2016 event, we made a number of announcements...

Announcing .NET Core Tools MSBuild “alpha”

Rich Lander [MSFT]November 16, 2016Nov 16, 201611/16/16

We are excited to announce the first "alpha" release of the new MSBuild-based .NET Core Tools. You can try out the new .NET Core Tools in Visual Studio 2017 RC, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code and at the commandline. The new Tools release can be used with both the .NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.1 runtimes. When we started building...

Announcing .NET Core 1.1

Rich Lander [MSFT]November 16, 2016Nov 16, 201611/16/16

Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.1 RTM, the first "Current" release. You can start creating .NET Core 1.1 apps, today, in Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017 RC, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio for the Mac. We used the 1.1 release to ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 1.1

Rowan MillerNovember 16, 2016Nov 16, 201611/16/16

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core 1.1 available. EF Core follows the same release cycle as .NET Core. Continuous improvements every 2 months and new features released every 6 months. This is the first feature release since 1.0...

The week in .NET – Mitch Muenster – Stateless

Bertrand Le RoyNovember 15, 2016Nov 15, 201611/15/16

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – On .NET on CoreRT and .NET Native – Enums.NET – Ylands – Markdown Monster. On .NET Last week, we hosted the MVP Summit, and instead of having a big one-hour show, we did several mini-interviews with MVPs. The first one was published on Monday. Mitch Muenster spent 25 minutes with us ...

.NET Core Data Access

Bertrand Le RoyNovember 9, 2016Nov 9, 201611/9/16

.NET Core was released a few months ago, and data access libraries for most databases, both relational and NoSQL are now available. In this post, I'll detail what client libraries are available, as well as show code samples for each of them. ORM EF Core Entity Framework is Microsoft's Object-Relational Mapper for .NET, and as such is one of...

The week in .NET – On .NET on CoreRT and .NET Native – Enums.NET – Ylands – Markdown Monster

Bertrand Le RoyNovember 8, 2016Nov 8, 201611/8/16

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – .NET Foundation – Serilog – Super Dungeon Bros. On .NET Last week, Mei-Chin Tsai and Jan Kotas were on the show: This week, we won't be streaming live, but we'll be taking advantage of the presence of many MVPs on campus for the MVP Summit to speak with as many of them as possible ...

The week in .NET – .NET Foundation – Serilog – Super Dungeon Bros

Bertrand Le RoyNovember 1, 2016Nov 1, 201611/1/16

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – .NET, ASP.NET, EF Core 1.1 Preview 1 – On .NET on EF Core 1.1 – Changelog – FluentValidation – Reverse: Time Collapse. On .NET: Martin Woodward on the .NET Foundation Last week, Martin Woodward was on the show to talk about the .NET Foundation: This week, we'll speak with Mei-...

.NET Blog