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Thank you for watching dotnetConf 2016!

(image) dotnetConf 2016 is a wrap! Thank you to all who tuned in live on Channel 9, asked questions, and participated in our twitter feed. We had a lot of awesome sessions from various product teams and community experts that showed us all sorts of cool things we can build with .NET across platforms and devices. There’s never been a better...

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – June 2, 2016

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...

The week in .NET – 06/07/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 5/31/2016. DotNetConf 7-9 June Are you ready to rediscover .NET? Well, dotnetConf is back! (image) Immerse yourself in the world of .NET and join our live stream for 3 days of free online content June 7 - 9 featuring speakers from the .NET Community and Microsoft product teams. Watch ...

Announcing a new .NET and ASP.NET Core Bug Bounty

Now that you're all updated to RC2 I am pleased to announce a further 3 month bug bounty program for .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, our cross platform runtime and web stack. The program encompasses the RC2 and, should its release fall within the 3 months programme period, the RTM version. The bounty will run from 7th June 2016 till 7th ...

The week in .NET – 5/31/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 5/24/2016. DotNetConf 7-9 June Are you ready to rediscover .NET? Well, dotnetConf is back! (image) Immerse yourself in the world of .NET and join our live stream for 3 days of free online content June 7 - 9 featuring speakers from the .NET Community and Microsoft product teams. Watch ...

Large Object Heap Uncovered (an old MSDN article)

I wrote this article in 2008 and the MSDN website no longer has it so I am making it available here. Please note that it has been quite a while and some things related to LOH have changed quite a bit. See the GC ETW blog entries I wrote for the current tooling options. Also note that obviously some of the links mentioned in this article may ...

Tuple Tuesday!

One of the central features we're trying to add to both VB and C# in the near future is tuples. If you've never heard of a tuple it's a primitive data structure for combining values together that many other programming languages have supported for years, including .NET's F#, but has been suspiciously absent from Visual Basic. A tuple is ...

Making it easier to port to .NET Core

In my last post, I talked about porting to .NET Core and requested feedback from our community on what their experience was and what we could improve. This sparked many great conversations with our users. Based on these conversations as well as our experience working with first- and third-party partners, we've decided to drastically simplify...

The week in .NET – 5/24/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 5/16/2016. On.NET Last week on the show, we had Miguel de Icaza: This week, we'll speak with Maoni Stephens, who works on .NET's GC. Package of the week: Math.NET Symbolics Math.NET is an impressive project. We've covered Math.NET's numeric package before. Today, we're looking at its ...