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Updated 2017/1/3 - Setting to control script debugging added. See below. Visual Studio 2017 RC now supports client-side debugging of both JavaScript and TypeScript in Google Chrome. For years, it has been possible to debug both the backend .NET code and the client-side JavaScript code running in Internet Explorer at the same time. Unfortunately, th...

NuGet 4.0 RC for Visual Studio 2017 is focused on adding support for .NET Core scenarios, addressing key customer feedback and improving performance in a variety of scenarios. This release brings several improvements like support for PackageReference, NuGet commands as MSBuild targets, background package restore, and more. This post gives an overv...

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 .NET ...

By now hopefully you’ve heard the good news that we’ve added first class support for building and running .NET applications inside of Docker containers in Visual Studio 2017 RC.  Visual Studio 2017 and Docker support building and running .NET applications using Windows containers (on Windows 10/Server 2016 only), and .NET Core applications on Linux...

We are happy to announce that ASP.NET Core 1.1 is now available as a stable release on nuget.org! This release includes a bunch of great new features along with many bug fixes and general enhancements. We invite you to try out the new features and to provide feedback. To update an existing project to ASP.NET Core 1.1 you will need to do the foll...

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 achieve the...

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. Be...

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 talking about b...

.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 ...

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 in the form of...