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Several people mentioned Java’s “no GC” GC proposal and asked if we can add such a thing. So I thought it deserves a blog post. Short answer – we already have such a feature and that’s called the NoGCRegion. The GC.TryStartNoGCRegion API allows you to tell us the amount of allocations you’d like to do and when you stay within it, no GCs will be tr...

Are you using the legacy ASP.NET membership providers with your application?  When you look in web.config, is there a membership configuration within the system.web element?  The membership provider has been available since ASP.NET 2, and has been superseded by the Identity provider for a more secure authentication and authorization facility in you...

Previous posts: On .NET Last week, we spoke with Sidharth Gupta from Samsung about Tizen. Tizen is Samsung's open-source OS that runs on TVs, watches, phones, and other devices. The development platform for Tizen is built on .NET Core and Xamarin Forms. This week, we'll talk about SonarLint with Tamás Vajk. We'll take quest...

  This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Join Scott Ha...

Previous posts: On .NET This week, we'll have Sidarth Gupta and Hong-Seok Kim from Samsung on the show to talk about their Tizen OS and its support for .NET Core. The show won't be live this week, because of the time difference with Korea, but you may still send us your questions on Gitter's dotnet/home channel and on Twitter. Ple...

You’ve downloaded and installed Visual Studio 2017, and it’s a great improvement over previous versions.  Now what?  How can you make your web development experience better?  In this article, we will recommend five Visual Studio extensions that will make your day-to-day tasks easier and even more enjoyable. Razor Language Service When you’re ...

In the past, NuGet packages were managed in two different ways - packages.config and project.json - each with their own sets of advantages and limitations. With Visual Studio 2017 and .NET Core, we have improved the NuGet package management experience by introducing the PackageReference feature in MSBuild. PackageReference brings new and improved c...

Announcing Nightly Releases for the Visual F# Tools In our previous blog post announcing F# 4.1 and a release of the Visual F# Tools, we mentioned that a new release model for the Visual F# tools would be coming soon. That time is now. To recap, nightly builds of the tools are successful builds of the latest master branch of the tools, after having...

Previous posts: On .NET We recorded two videos last week. In the first one, Scott Hunter showed Visual Studio 2017 and .NET Core SDK 1.0: In the second video, Matt Watson from Stackify showed us Prefix, a free lightweight dev tool that shows you real-time logs, errors, queries, and more, and Retrace, a powerful commercial s...

This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Join Scott Hanselman, D...