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.NET Fringe: A Great Role Model for Community Oriented Conferences

June 12, 2017 Jun 12, 2017 06/12/17
Immo Landwerth
A few of us just went to a smaller .NET conference in Portland, called .NET Fringe. For me, it was the third time I attended .NET Fringe. I've realized that this conference has gained a special place in my heart, so thought it would be worthwhile writing up why that is. My goal isn't to convince you to attend .NET Fringe per se, but to ...

Performance Improvements in .NET Core

June 7, 2017 Jun 7, 2017 06/7/17
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Update (2017/06/12): Added BenchmarkDotNet blog post link. There are many exciting aspects to .NET Core (open source, cross platform, x-copy deployable, etc.) that have been covered in posts on this blog before. To me, though, one of the most exciting aspects of .NET Core is performance. There's been a lot of discussion about the ...

The week in .NET – On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime Extensions

June 6, 2017 Jun 6, 2017 06/6/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: On .NET: Brett Morrison During the Build conference, I caught up with my friend Brett Morrison. Brett is an entrepreneur, executive, and hands-on developer, who has been using Microsoft products and .NET throughout his career. He founded startups, such as Onestop and ememories, and also worked for SpaceX...

Why you should use F#

May 31, 2017 May 31, 2017 05/31/17
Phillip Carter
Why you should use F# This post was written by Phillip Carter and Mads Torgersen. Both work on languages on the .NET team. At Build 2017, we presented a tech talk entitled "Why You Should Use F#". However, not everyone can attend Build, and many attendees were unable to find a position in the room where they could adequately hear us. You ...

The week in .NET – Open XML SDK, Adventure Time

May 30, 2017 May 30, 2017 05/30/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: Package of the week: Open XML SDK The Open XML SDK provides open-source libraries for working with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. It supports scenarios such as high-performance generation of word-processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, high fidelity conversion of Word documents to HTML, ...

.NET Framework May 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10

May 26, 2017 May 26, 2017 05/26/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
We just released a new Cumulative Quality Update for the .NET Framework. This update is specific to Windows 10 Creators Update. Previously released security and quality updates are included in this release. These quality updates will be made available to other .NET Framework and Windows version combinations in Q3 2017. You can read the .NET...

Using .NET and Docker Together

May 25, 2017 May 25, 2017 05/25/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Update: See Using .NET and Docker Together – DockerCon 2018 Update Many developers I talk to are either using Docker actively or planning to adopt containers in their environment. Containers are an important trend in our industry and .NET is part of that. Microsoft and Docker have been working together so that you'll have a great ...

Announcing EF 6.2 beta 1

May 23, 2017 May 23, 2017 05/23/17
Diego Vega
Earlier this month, we announced a preview of Entity Framework Core 2.0, the lightweight, extensible and cross-platform version of EF for .NET Core and .NET Framework. Today we are making the 6.2 beta 1 version of the Entity Framework runtime and the corresponding Visual Studio tooling available. EF 6.2 is a new iteration of Microsoft's ...

Cloud Gal interview

May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017 05/18/17
maoni
Microsoft recently started a new series called "Cloud Gal" that promotes female software developers. They interviewed me last week and the episode just became live on Channel9. This was supposed to be pretty lighthearted so I stayed very high level when I talked about GC (turned out it was harder to talk on such high level than otherwise). It ...