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November 28, 2018Nov 28, 201811/28/18We are happy to let you know that .NET Framework 4.8 is now feature complete and we have an early access build to share with you all! We will continue to stabilize this release and take more fixes over the coming months,
November 27, 2018Nov 27, 201811/27/18Today, we are releasing the November 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup.
Quality and Reliability
This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.
CLR
Addressed an issue with KB4096417 where we switched to CLR-implemented write-watch for pages. The GC will no longer call VirtualAlloc when running under workstation GC mode.
November 16, 2018Nov 16, 201811/16/18This week I was able to get some time to work on the container stuff with low memory limits. As many of you have expressed your dissatisfaction on how Server GC behaves with low memory limit specified on containers on github,
November 14, 2018Nov 14, 201811/14/18Typically, calendar eras represent long time periods. In the Gregorian calendar, for example, the current era spans (as of this year) 2,018 years. In the Japanese calendar, however, a new era begins with the reign of a new emperor. On April 30,
November 13, 2018Nov 13, 201811/13/18Today, we are releasing the November 2018 Security and Quality Rollup.
Security
No new security fixes. See .NET Framework September 2018 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates.
Quality and Reliability
This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.
November 13, 2018Nov 13, 201811/13/18Update! Starting with Visual Studio 2019, the option has moved to:
Tools Options Environment Preview Features
Old post for posterity:
Starting with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9, we’ve changed how the Visual Studio tooling for .NET consumes .NET Core SDKs. Prior to this change,
November 13, 2018Nov 13, 201811/13/18Developing applications that span multiple operating systems in .NET Core while working with Time Zone information can lead to unexpected results for developers not familiar with the differences in how operating systems manage Time Zones. In this post, we will explore those differences and the challenges they present.
November 12, 2018Nov 12, 201811/12/18Building C# 8.0
The next major version of C# is C# 8.0. It’s been in the works for quite some time, even as we built and shipped the minor releases C# 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3, and I’m quite excited about the new capabilities it will bring.
November 8, 2018Nov 8, 201811/8/18We’re excited to announce today the release of ML.NET 0.7 – the latest release of the cross-platform and open source machine learning framework for .NET developers (ML.NET 0.1 was released at //Build 2018). This release focuses on enabling better support for recommendation based ML tasks,
November 7, 2018Nov 7, 201811/7/18The .NET Framework 4 saw the introduction of the System.Threading.Tasks namespace, and with it the Task class. This type and the derived Task<TResult> have long since become a staple of .NET programming, key aspects of the asynchronous programming model introduced with C# 5 and its async / await keywords.
