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

Previous posts: 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. This comes at a cost, and with the friction associated with acquiring and renewing certificates. The problem of cost is now addressed by Let's Encrypt, but ...

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

Immo LandwerthAugust 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, you need to target Fall Creators Update (FCU) as the minimum ...

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". Just as a reminder, the four introductory blog posts...

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

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

Previous posts: Visual Studio extension of the week: Project File Tools The Project File Tools Visual Studio extension provides package name and version IntelliSense, tooltips for packages, and more, when editing a .csproj file in Visual Studio. The extension just got updated. Get it from the Visual Studio Marketplace. ...

.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. The AppContext class was introduced in the .NET Framework ...

.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 CLR Management Windows Forms WCF WPF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS ...

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

Previous posts: .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, as .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, and Entity Framework 2.0 shipped! We're also getting an update to Visual Studio 2017 with lots of improvements for .NET Core developers. ...

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, Enrico Sada from the F# community worked with us and other teams at Microsoft to add...

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, on your own hardware or your favorite cloud, like Microsoft Azure. ...

Announcing .NET Standard 2.0

Immo LandwerthAugust 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#, it's also supported in Visual Basic and F#. For more details, take a look at the .NET ...

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