August 2017 | .NET Blog

The week in .NET – Let’s Encrypt Web App Renewer, Seattle CodeCamp 2017

Bertrand Le RoyAugust 29, 2017Aug 29, 201708/29/17

Project File Tools, Maira Wenzel, Mixed Reality in Miami
.NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston
Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando

Open-source project of the week: Let’s Encrypt Azure Web App Renewer
There’s a growing consensus that all web sites should transition now to be encrypted with HTTPS.

UWP & .NET Standard 2.0: A preview is now available!

Immo Landwerth [MSFT]August 25, 2017Aug 25, 201708/25/17

Today, we released the first Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4. This includes an update to the UWP tooling that supports .NET Standard 2.0. In this post, I’ll outline what this means for UWP development with .NET.
Prerequisites
In order to use .NET Standard 2.0 in UWP,

Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Architecture and Patterns guidance

Cesar De la TorreAugust 25, 2017Aug 25, 201708/25/17

As part of the series of posts announced at this initial blog post (.NET Application Architecture Guidance) that explores each of the architecture areas currently covered by our team, this current blog post focuses on “Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Architecture and Patterns guidance“.

The week in .NET – Project File Tools, Maira Wenzel, Mixed Reality in Miami, and links!

Bertrand Le RoyAugust 23, 2017Aug 23, 201708/23/17

.NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston
Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando
Nuke, Warden.NET, .NET in Bangalore

Visual Studio extension of the week: Project File Tools
The Project File Tools Visual Studio extension provides package name and version IntelliSense,

.NET Framework Update for AppContext

Rich Lander [MSFT]August 18, 2017Aug 18, 201708/18/17

A new update for .NET Framework is now available for the AppContext class. The behavior of the AppContext class was recently regressed. The update returns the class to the correct behavior. This update affects the .NET Framework 4.6 and later. The update is not required on Windows 10.

.NET Framework August 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup

Rich Lander [MSFT]August 16, 2017Aug 16, 201708/16/17

The August 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup is now available.
Quality and Reliability
This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.
ASP.NET

Values added to System.Web.Cache expire immediately, with .NET Framework 4.7. [452228]

Also reported at ASP.NET Forums #2123507

ASP.NET site running on Sitefinity broken,

The week in .NET – .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework Core 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston, and links!

Bertrand Le RoyAugust 15, 2017Aug 15, 201708/15/17

Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando
Nuke, Warden.NET, .NET in Bangalore
MIST, F# in NYC

.NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, and Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 launched!
This is a week to celebrate for the .NET community,

F# and .NET Core Roadmap Update

Phillip CarterAugust 14, 2017Aug 14, 201708/14/17

Now that .NET Core 2.0 has been released, we wanted to take some time to talk about F# and .NET Core.
F# and .NET Core 1.0
F# has been supported on .NET Core and .NET Standard since their 1.0 releases. In the months leading up to the release of .NET Core 1.0,

Announcing .NET Core 2.0

Rich Lander [MSFT]August 14, 2017Aug 14, 201708/14/17

.NET Core 2.0 is available today as a final release. You can start developing with it at the command line, in your favorite text editor, in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac. It is ready for production workloads,

Announcing .NET Standard 2.0

Immo Landwerth [MSFT]August 14, 2017Aug 14, 201708/14/17

The .NET Standard 2.0 specification is now complete. It is supported in .NET Core 2.0, in the .NET Framework 4.6.1 and later versions, and in Visual Studio 15.3. You can start using .NET Standard 2.0 today.
While this post demos .NET Standard in C#,

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