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ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: Healthchecks

August 22, 2018 Aug 22, 2018 08/22/18
Damian Edwards
What is it? We're adding a health checks service and middleware in 2.2.0 to make it easy to use ASP.NET Core in environments that require health checks - such as Kubernetes. The new features are set of libraries defining an IHealthCheck abstraction and service, as well as a middleware for use in ASP.NET Core. Health checks are used by a ...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: HTTP/2 in Kestrel

August 22, 2018 Aug 22, 2018 08/22/18
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
As part of the 2.2.0-preview1 release, we’ve added support for HTTP/2 in Kestrel. What is HTTP/2? HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP protocol. Some of the notable features of HTTP/2 are support for header compression and fully multiplexed streams over the same connection. While HTTP/2 preserves HTTP’s semantics (HTTP headers, methods...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1 now available

August 22, 2018 Aug 22, 2018 08/22/18
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
Today we’re very happy to announce that the first preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. We’ve been working hard on this release over the past months, along with many folks from the community, and it’s now ready for a wider audience to try it out and provide the feedback that ...

LibMan CLI Released

August 22, 2018 Aug 22, 2018 08/22/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
The Command Line Interface (CLI) is now available for Microsoft Library Manager (LibMan) and can be downloaded via NuGet. Look for Microsoft.Web.LibraryManager.Cli The LibMan CLI is cross-platform, so you’ll be able to use it anywhere that .NET Core is supported (Windows, Mac, Linux). Install the LibMan CLI To install LibMan, type: ...

.NET Core August 2018 Update

August 21, 2018 Aug 21, 2018 08/21/18
Lee Coward
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!

August 20, 2018 Aug 20, 2018 08/20/18
Mukul Sabharwal
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

August 15, 2018 Aug 15, 2018 08/15/18
Jamshed Damkewala
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 ...

Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 for web and Azure developers

August 15, 2018 Aug 15, 2018 08/15/18
Jeffrey Fritz
With the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 brings improvements for web developers such as custom docker image tags during publish, zip push deployment for Azure functions, managing Azure functions application settings, and enabling Application Insights as part of publishing to Azure App Service. Also learn about managing user secrets in ASP.NET framework projects, optimizing build performance for solutions containing ASP.NET frame as well as author and source information for ASP.NET Core templates.

Announcing F# 4.5

August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18
Phillip Carter
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...