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Provider pattern was introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 and it gives the developers the flexibility of where to store the state of ASP.NET features (e.g. Session State, Membership, Output Cache etc.). In ASP.NET 4.6.2, we added async support for Session State Provider and Output Cache Provider.  These providers provide much better scalability, and enables t...

In September 2017, we announced our plans to improve the security of the NuGet ecosystem by introducing the ability for package authors to sign packages. Today, we want to announce support for any NuGet.org user to submit signed packages to NuGet.org. A signed NuGet package is designed to be fully compatible with pre-existing NuGet servers and cli...

Today, we are releasing the May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup for Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update). Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Networking WPF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS bug number provided w...

Scott Guthrie recently shared one of my favorite anecdotes on his Azure Red Shirt Tour. A Microsoft customer regularly invokes 1 billion (yes, that’s with a “B”) Azure Functions per day. The customer reached out to support after the first month thinking there was a bug in the billing system, only to find out that the $72 was in fact correct. How is...

Today, we are releasing the May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup for Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update) and Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update). Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Networking WPF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not avail...

Today, we are releasing the May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Networking WPF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS bug number provided with each improvement is a ...

We had previously announced the deprecation of NuGet.org's home-grown authentication in favor of Microsoft accounts (MSA) that will allow us to add support for additional security systems such as two-factor authentication (2FA). We will be disabling the NuGet.org's home-grown authentication mechanism starting June 1st, 2018. This means that you can...

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core May 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 2.1.200 SDK and ASP.NET Core 2.0.8. Security Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET Core and .NET native version 2.0. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applica...

Today, we are releasing the May 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security CVE-2018-1039 – Windows Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Windows which could allow an attacker to bypass Device Guard. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could circumvent a User Mode Code Integrity...

We’re excited to share updates about changes to F# and F# tools which shipped with the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 release. Let’s dive in! Type Providers now support .NET Standard For those who aren’t familiar with Type Providers, they are a feature of F# which allow you to get IntelliSense for data. When pointed at a data source, a Type Prov...