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Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7

Last Updated: 6/15/2017 Today, we are announcing the release of the .NET Framework 4.7. It's included in the Windows 10 Creators Update. We've added support for targeting the .NET Framework 4.7 in Visual Studio 2017, also updated today. See Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7 General Availability to learn about and download the .NET ...

The week in .NET – On .NET on SonarLint and SonarQube, Happy birthday .NET with Dan Fernandez, nopCommerce, Steve Gordon

Previous posts: On .NET Last week, I spoke with Tamás Vajk and Olivier Gaudin about SonarLint and SonarQube: This week, we'll have Sébastien Ros on the show to talk about modular ASP.NET applications, as they are implemented in Orchard Core. We'll take questions on Gitter, on the dotnet/home channel and on Twitter. ...

No GCs for your allocations?

Several people mentioned Java’s “no GC” GC proposal and asked if we can add such a thing. So I thought it deserves a blog post. Short answer – we already have such a feature and that’s called the NoGCRegion. The GC.TryStartNoGCRegion API allows you to tell us the amount of allocations you’d like to do and when you stay within it, ...