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.NET Framework August 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup

Tara OverfieldAugust 30, 2018Aug 30, 201808/30/18

Last Updated 9/7/2018: Documented missing WPF updates Today, we are releasing the August 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET CLR SQL WCF WPF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not ...

.NET Core August 2018 Update

Lee CowardAugust 21, 2018Aug 21, 201808/21/18

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core August 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 2.1.3 and .NET Core SDK 2.1.401. Getting the Update The latest .NET Core updates are available on the .NET Core download page. See the .NET Core 2.1.3 release notes for details on the release including a detailed commit list. Docker Images .NET Docker ...

Bing.com runs on .NET Core 2.1!

Mukul SabharwalAugust 20, 2018Aug 20, 201808/20/18

Bing.com is a cloud service that runs on thousands of servers spanning many datacenters across the globe. Bing servers handle thousands of users' queries every second from consumers around the world doing searches through their browsers, from our partners using the Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs, and from the personal digital assistant, ...

.NET Core SDK 2.1.400 Update

Jamshed DamkewalaAugust 15, 2018Aug 15, 201808/15/18

We released .NET Core 2.1.400-SDK. See .NET Core 2.1.400-SDK release notes for complete details on the release. Quality Updates CLI A full list of the changes in this update can be found in the commit list. Getting the Update The .NET Core 2.1.400-SDK August 2018 Update is available from the .NET Core 2.1.400-SDK download page. You can ...

Announcing F# 4.5

Phillip CarterAugust 14, 2018Aug 14, 201808/14/18

Today, we’re incredibly pleased to announce general availability of F# 4.5. This post will walk through the changes in F# 4.5 (just like the preview post), then show some updates to F# tooling, and finally talk a bit about where what we’re thinking about for the next F# version. Get started F# 4.5 can be acquired in two ways...

.NET Framework August 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

Tara OverfieldAugust 14, 2018Aug 14, 201808/14/18

Today, we are releasing the August 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. This release also addressed the July issues explained in KB 4345913 and Advisory on July 2018 .NET Framework Updates. Security CVE-2018-8360 – Windows Information Disclosure Vulnerability This update resolves an information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft .NET ...

Advisory serializing/deserializing a CultureAwareComparer with .NET Framework 4.6+

Rich Lander [MSFT]August 13, 2018Aug 13, 201808/13/18

An issue with serializing/deserializing a CultureAwareComparer was discovered with .NET Framework 4.7.1. This issue was resolved earlier this year, with the May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. We recently learned that some applications, including Johnson Controls’ C-CURE 9000 Software, were negatively impacted by this change as this ...

Are your Windows Forms and WPF applications ready for .NET Core 3.0?

Olia GavryshAugust 8, 2018Aug 8, 201808/8/18

Download Portability Analyzer (2.37 MB) At Build 2018 we announced that we are enabling Windows desktop applications (Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Framework (WPF)) with .NET Core 3.0. You will be able to run new and existing Windows desktop applications on .NET Core and enjoy all the benefits that .NET Core has to offer, such ...

Announcing ML.NET 0.4

Cesar De la TorreAugust 7, 2018Aug 7, 201808/7/18

A few months ago we released ML.NET 0.1 at //Build 2018., ML.NET is a cross-platform, open source machine learning framework for .NET developers. We’ve gotten great feedback so far and would like to thank the community for your engagement as we continue to develop ML.NET together in the open. We are happy to announce the latest version: ...

Tiered Compilation Preview in .NET Core 2.1

Noah FalkAugust 2, 2018Aug 2, 201808/2/18

If you are a fan of .NET performance there has been a lot great news lately such as Performance Improvements in .NET Core 2.1 and Announcing .NET Core 2.1, but we've got more. Tiered compilation is a significant new performance feature that we are making available as a preview for anyone to try out, starting in .NET Core 2.1. In many scenarios...

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