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Announcing ASP.NET Core RC2

Edit:  ASP.NET Core RC2 is now available for use with Azure Web Applications We are very pleased to announce the availability of ASP.NET Core RC2.  This release succeeds the ASP.NET 5 RC1 release and features a number of updates to enhance compatibility with other .NET frameworks and an improved runtime.  You can install the RC2 from http...

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – May 10, 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 – 5/10/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 5/3/2016. On.NET Last week in On .NET, we had the pleasure to speak with Andy De George about SadConsole, his text-based gaming engine. This week's guest is still TBD. Post of the week: Stack Overflow - How we do deployment This week, I want to do something exceptional for an exceptional post...

Introducing the IIS Administration API

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 (...

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

.NET Core RC2 – Improvements, Schedule, and Roadmap

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

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

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

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

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 ...