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RyuJIT Just-in-Time Compiler Optimization Enhancements

I'd like to tell you about some of the recent changes we've made as part of our ongoing work to extend the optimization capabilities of RyuJIT, the MSIL-to-native code generator used by .NET Core and .NET Framework. I hope it will make for an interesting read, and offer some insight into the sorts of optimization opportunities we have our ...

.NET Framework October 2017 Security and Quality Rollup

Today, we are releasing the October 2017 Security and Quality Rollup. The update applies to all supported Windows versions. It includes a known issue for Windows 10 1507 (see below). Security This release contains no new security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. WPF...

Announcing UWP Support for .NET Standard 2.0

This post was mostly written by Rich Lander with contributions from Immo Landwerth. Today, we are releasing huge updates to UWP for .NET developers. The really big improvement is adding support for .NET Standard 2.0. UWP developers now have access to ~ 20k more APIs. This release brings UWP to partity with the other .NET implementations that...

Announcing SignalR for ASP.NET Core Alpha 2

A few weeks ago we released the alpha1 version of SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0. Today we are pleased to announce a release of the alpha2 version of SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0. This release contains a number of changes (including API changes) and improvements. Notable Changes Release notes can be found on github. API Changes ...