November 2017 | .NET Blog

Announcing the Windows Compatibility Pack for .NET Core

Immo Landwerth November 16, 2017 Nov 16, 2017 11/16/17

Porting existing code to .NET Core used to be quite hard because the available API set was very small. In .NET Core 2.0, we already made this much easier, thanks to .NET Standard 2.0. Today, we're happy to announce that we made it even easier with the Windows Compatibility Pack, which provides access to an additional 20,000 APIs via a single...

UPDATE – Microservices and Docker containers: Architecture, Patterns and Development guidance (Updated for .NET Core 2.0)

Cesar De la Torre November 16, 2017 Nov 16, 2017 11/16/17

Nov. 15th 2017 update Earlier this year, we published this eBook/guide and sample application offering guidance for architecting microservices and Docker containers based applications. We have recently published updates to the eBook (2nd edition) and sample application to bring them in line with the latest releases of .NET Core 2.0 and many ...

UPDATE – Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance (Updated for ASP.NET Core 2)

Cesar De la Torre November 16, 2017 Nov 16, 2017 11/16/17

Nov. 15th 2017 update Earlier this year, we published an eBook/Guide and sample application offering guidance named Architecting Modern Web Applications with ASP.NET Core and Microsoft Azure. We have recently published updates to the eBook (2nd edition) and sample application to bring them in line with the latest releases of ASP.NET Core 2.0...

Introducing Tensor for multi-dimensional Machine Learning and AI data

.NET Team November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17

Overview Tensor is an exchange type for homogenous multi-dimensional data for 1 to N dimensions. The motivation behind introducing Tensor<T> is to make it easy for Machine Learning library vendors like CNTK, Tensorflow, Caffe, Scikit-Learn to port their libraries over to .NET with minimal dependencies in place. Tensor<T> is ...

Introducing Nullable Reference Types in C#

Mads Torgersen November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17

Today we released a prototype of a C# feature called "nullable reference types", which is intended to help you find and fix most of your null-related bugs before they blow up at runtime. We would love for you to install the prototype and try it out on your code! (Or maybe a copy of it! 😄) Your feedback is going to help us get the feature ...

Announcing F# support for .NET Core and .NET Standard projects in Visual Studio

Phillip Carter November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17

We're pleased to announce that Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 4 now supports F# projects targeting .NET Core, .NET Standard, and .NET Framework through the .NET Core SDK. Some of you have noticed various levels of this support in the first, second, and third previews. We still had a few work items left to complete when those were released, so...

Welcome to C# 7.2 and Span

Mads Torgersen November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17

C# 7.2 is the latest point release of C#, and adds a number of small but useful features. All the features are described in wonderful detail in the docs. Start with the overview, What's new in C# 7.2, which gives you an excellent introduction to the new set of capabilities. It is worth celebrating that a significant portion of the docs are ...

.NET Core November 2017 Update

Rich Lander [MSFT] November 14, 2017 Nov 14, 2017 11/14/17

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core November Update. This includes .NET Core 1.0.8, 1.1.5 and 2.0.1 and .NET Core SDK 1.1.5 and 2.0.3. Details regarding the security issues addressed by this release can be seen in the Security Advisory announcement. Security CVE-2017-8585 -- Malformed Certificate can cause Denial of Service Microsoft is ...

.NET Framework November 2017 Security and Quality Rollup

Rich Lander [MSFT] November 14, 2017 Nov 14, 2017 11/14/17

Today, we are releasing the November 2017 Security and Quality Rollup. Security This release contains no new security updates. The most recent .NET security updates were shipped with the September 2017 Security and Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR WPF...

Modernize existing .NET apps with Windows Containers and Azure

Cesar De la Torre November 1, 2017 Nov 1, 2017 11/1/17

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 introducing the new "Modernize existing .NET applications with Windows Containers and Azure" eBook which you can download ...

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