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February 2017 - .NET Blog

The week in .NET – On .NET with Beth Massi, NeinLinq

February 22, 2017 Feb 22, 2017 02/22/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: .NET Foundation The .NET Foundation has a new Executive Director, Jon Galloway. Jon replaces Martin Woodward. On .NET In last week's episode, we're speaking with Beth Massi to celebrate .NET's 15th anniversary: This week, Eric Mellino will be on the show to demo CrazyCore, a game engine written on .NET Core. We'll ...

Let’s Try WCF Self-Hosted Services in a Container

February 20, 2017 Feb 20, 2017 02/20/17
Jeffrey Fritz
Microservices are a hot architecture concept right now, and we hear a lot of interest in the architecture concepts.  Many of the ideas and capabilities behind microservices are already possible with the WCF frameworks for client and server creation.  There is one tenet about microservices that you can not do with WCF: run inside of a ...

How to evaluate info you read on garbage collectors

February 18, 2017 Feb 18, 2017 02/18/17
maoni
Just a word before I actually start this blog entry – I apologize for approving some of the comments so late – it appears that our blogs’ policy has changed and it would make some comments as pending without obvious reasons to me. Also as one of the ways to support the community I was thinking I could have a specific time on a regular ...

The week in .NET – On .NET with Phil Haack, Readline

February 14, 2017 Feb 14, 2017 02/14/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: Happy 15th Birthday .NET! Happy 20th Anniversary Visual Studio! This week marks the 15th anniversary since .NET debuted to the world. On February 13th, 2002, the first version of .NET was released as part of Visual Studio.NET. Read Beth Massi's post, featuring a new interview of Anders Hejlsberg. It's also Visual ...

Happy 15th Birthday .NET!

February 13, 2017 Feb 13, 2017 02/13/17
.NET Team
(image) Today marks the 15th anniversary since .NET debuted to the world. On February 13th, 2002, the first version of .NET was released as part of Visual Studio.NET. It seems just like yesterday when Microsoft was building its "Next Generation Windows Services" and unleashed a new level of productivity with Visual Studio.NET. Since the ...

Announcing .NET Core Tools Updates in VS 2017 RC

February 7, 2017 Feb 7, 2017 02/7/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Updated (4/2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (4/2017): See Announcing .NET Core Tools 1.0 to learn about the final .NET Core Tools 1.0 release in Visual Studio 2017 RTM. Today, we are releasing updates to the .NET Core SDK, included in Visual Studio 2017 RC. You can also install the .NET Core SDK for use ...