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Announcing EF Core 2.0 Preview 2

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Diego Vega
Today we are making Entity Framework Core 2.0 Preview 2 available. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. EF Core follows the same release cycle as .NET Core but can be used in multiple .NET platforms, including .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Framework 4.6.1 or newer. Installing ...

Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2. We have made improvements that we want to share and that we would love to get your feedback on. You can develop .NET Core 2.0 apps with Visual Studio 2017 Preview 15.3, Visual Studio for Mac or VS Code. ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 is also releasing today and takes advantage of the ...

Introducing ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 2

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Jeffrey Fritz
At Build 2017, we released an initial preview version of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  Over the last two months we have incorporated your feedback and added a number of new features.  We now have a Preview 2 version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework and Visual Studio tools for you to try.  In this post, we will review some of the new features in this ...

.NET Framework June 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10

June 27, 2017 Jun 27, 2017 06/27/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are releasing a new Cumulative Quality Update for the .NET Framework. It is specific to Windows 10 Creators Update (1703). Previously released security and quality updates are included in this release, including the NET Framework May 2017 Security and Quality Rollup and the May 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10. There ...

The week in .NET – .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit

June 27, 2017 Jun 27, 2017 06/27/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: .NET Conf, September 19-21. Call for Content is Open! (image) .NET Conf is a free, 3 day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. Over the course of the three days developers have a wide selection of live sessions that feature speakers from the community and .NET product teams. ...

The week in .NET – On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf

June 14, 2017 Jun 14, 2017 06/14/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: On .NET: Mattias Karlsson - Cake During the Microsoft Build conference, we recorded interviews with some of the attendees. Mattias Karlsson is a core contributor on Cake, the cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL. Package of the week: Topshelf Topshelf is a framework for hosting ...

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 is available on Windows Update, WSUS, and MU Catalog

June 13, 2017 Jun 13, 2017 06/13/17
Jamshed Damkewala
Last Updated: 9/14/2017 We are happy to announce the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 is now available on Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and the Microsoft Update (MU) Catalog for the following operating systems: Client platforms: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Version 1607) Server platforms: ...

.NET Core 2 and Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) Preview 2

June 12, 2017 Jun 12, 2017 06/12/17
Lee Coward
Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) Preview 2 was recently released which includes .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1, our latest production releases of .NET Core. You will need to install the .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 SDK to develop .NET Core 2.0 applications using Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) Preview 2 . We are working on .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 which will be ...