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March 2018 - .NET Blog

Calling all Desktop Developers: how should UI development be improved?

March 23, 2018 Mar 23, 2018 03/23/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
The user interface (UI) of any application is critical in making your app convenient and efficient for the folks using it. When developing applications for Enterprise use, a good UI can shave time off an entire company’s workflow. Visual Studio is investing in new tools to improve the productivity of Windows desktop developers and we’d ...

ASP.NET Core manageability and Application Insights improvements

March 22, 2018 Mar 22, 2018 03/22/18
Sergey Kanzhelev
There are many great investments on the ASP.NET Core 2.1 roadmap. These investments make ASP.NET Core applications easier to write, host, test, and make security and standards compliant. This blog post talks about areas of investments in manageability and monitoring space. It covers ASP.NET Core, .NET, and Application Insights SDK ...

Announcing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5

March 19, 2018 Mar 19, 2018 03/19/18
Daniel Roth
Today we released Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5 on NuGet. This is a patch release that contains only bug fixes. You can find the full list of bug fixes for this release in the release notes. To update an existing project to use this preview release run the following commands from the NuGet Package Manager ...

F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6

March 6, 2018 Mar 6, 2018 03/6/18
Phillip Carter
With the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, we’re excited to share updates to the F# language and core library, F# tooling in Visual Studio, and infrastructure updates that concern OSS contributors. Let’s dive in! F# language and core library updates Some foundational changes for the F# language and core library have been ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: GDPR enhancements

March 4, 2018 Mar 4, 2018 03/4/18
Barry Dorrans
2018 sees the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation, an EU framework to allow EU citizens to control, correct and delete their data, no matter where in the word it is held. In ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 we’ve added some features to the ASP.NET Core templates to allow you to meet some of your GDPR obligations, as well as a ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Razor UI in class libraries

March 1, 2018 Mar 1, 2018 03/1/18
Daniel Roth
One frequently requested scenario that ASP.NET Core 2.1 improves is building UI in reusable class libraries. With ASP.NET Core 2.1 you can package your Razor views and pages (.cshtml files) along with your controllers, page models, and data models in reusable class libraries that can be packaged and shared. Apps can then include pre-built UI ...