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Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1

Today, we are announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1. It is the first public release of .NET Core 2.0. We have great improvements that we want to share and that we would love to get your feedback on. You can develop .NET Core 2.0 apps with Visual Studio 2017 Preview 15.3, Visual Studio for Mac or VS Code. ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 is also ...

Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions

Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions are now available as part of the Azure development workload starting in the Visual Studio 2017 15.3 release. These tools: (image) Getting Started To get started: To create a new project, choose File -> New Project, and the Azure Functions project type (image...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0.0-Preview1 and Updates for .NET Web Developers

The ASP.NET team is pleased to share the first preview version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework.  In this post, we’ll look at the new features and changes to the web framework that were announced at the Build 2017 keynote and sessions.  We will also look at some other updates that were published for ASP.NET 4.7 and WCF. ASP.NET Core 2.0....

.NET Framework May 2017 Security and Quality Rollup

Last Updated (2015/05/31) Today, we are releasing a new Security and Quality Rollup and Security Only Update for the .NET Framework. Please see .NET Core May 2017 Updates for the .NET Core updates being released today. Security Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2017-0248 A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when...

.NET Core May 2017 Update

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core May Update. This includes .NET Core 1.0.5, 1.1.2 and .NET Core SDK 1.0.4. Details regarding the security issues addressed by this release can be seen in the Security Advisory announcement Security CVE-2017-0247 An issue exists can where, in the presence of a particular sequence of bytes, web pages ...

The week in .NET – Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy birthday .NET with Eilon Lipton, On .NET with Alfonso García-Caro on Fable, Stanford CoreNLP

Previous posts: Microsoft Build 2017 The Microsoft Build 2017 conference starts tomorrow in Seattle! You can watch the conference live starting at 8:00AM Pacific Time and get the scoop. .NET Core 2.0 status Only a few days to go before we reach zero bugs. Great progress has been made, but we are still 163 bugs away from ...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7 General Availability

Last Updated: 2017/06/15 Today, we are announcing the general availability of the .NET Framework 4.7. The .NET Framework 4.7 was released as part of Windows 10 Creators Update a month ago. You can now install the .NET Framework 4.7 on other versions of Windows. You can download the .NET Framework 4.7: The .NET Framework ...

The week in .NET – .NET Architecture, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy Birthday .NET with Matt Gertz, On .NET with Don Schenck on Red Hat, Fable

Previous posts: .NET Architecture There’s a new .NET Architecture web site, where you’ll find practical advice, best practices, and sample applications to help you implement different application patterns using .NET. Check it out! .NET Core 2.0 status 2.0 bugs are mostly under control and we think we will hit our zero-...