April 2019 | .NET Blog

Using .NET and Docker Together – DockerCon 2019 Update

Rich Lander [MSFT] April 29, 2019 Apr 29, 2019 04/29/19

DockerCon 2019 is being held this week, in San Francisco. We posted a DockerCon 2018 update last year, and it is time to share how we've improved the experience of using .NET and Docker together over the last year. We have a group of .NET Core team members attending the conference again this year. Please reach out @ dotnet@microsoft.com if ...

Introducing .NET for Apache® Spark™ Preview

Ankit Asthana April 24, 2019 Apr 24, 2019 04/24/19

Today at Spark + AI summit we are excited to announce .NET for Apache Spark. Spark is a popular open source distributed processing engine for analytics over large data sets. Spark can be used for processing batches of data, real-time streams, machine learning, and ad-hoc query. .NET for Apache Spark is aimed at making Apache® Spark...

Upcoming Updates for .NET Framework 4.8

Brett Lopez April 19, 2019 Apr 19, 2019 04/19/19

Upcoming Updates for .NET Framework 4.8 The .NET Framework 4.8 product release is now available. The .NET Framework 4.8 product will receive updates on the same cadence and the usual channels (Windows Update, WSUS, Catalog) as all .NET Framework and Windows cumulative updates. For Windows 10, .NET Framework 4.8 updates will now be ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 4

Diego Vega April 18, 2019 Apr 18, 2019 04/18/19

Today, we are making the fourth preview of Entity Framework Core 3.0 available on NuGet, alongside .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 4. We encourage you to install this preview to test the new functionality and assess the impact of the included breaking changes. What’s new in EF Core 3.0 Preview 4? This preview includes...

Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 4

Rich Lander [MSFT] April 18, 2019 Apr 18, 2019 04/18/19

Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4. It includes a chart control for Windows Forms, HTTP/2 support, GC updates to use less memory, support for CPU limits with Docker, the addition of PowerShell in .NET Core SDK Docker container images, and other improvements. If you missed it, check out the improvements we released in .NET Core 3....

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.8

Namrata Karnam April 18, 2019 Apr 18, 2019 04/18/19

We are thrilled to announce the release of the .NET Framework 4.8 today. It’s included in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update. .NET Framework 4.8 is also available on Windows 7+ and Windows Server 2008 R2+. You can install .NET 4.8 from our .NET Download site. For building applications targeting .NET Framework 4.8, you can download the NET 4....

.NET Core April 2019 Updates – 2.1.10 and 2.2.4

Vivek Mishra April 9, 2019 Apr 9, 2019 04/9/19

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core April 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on included fixes. Security Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2019-0815: ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability A denial of service vulnerability exists in ASP.NET Core 2...

A portable way to get GC events in process and no admin privilege with 10 lines of code (and ability to dynamically enable/disable events)

maoni April 8, 2019 Apr 8, 2019 04/8/19

I’ve been talking about doing managed heap performance analysis with ETW events for ages because ETW is just such a powerful tool. It has a well defined format so many components, from kernel modes to user mode ones, all emit ETW events which means you can have tools that just know how to parse the event format and correlate them. At ...

Announcing ML.NET 1.0 RC – Machine Learning for .NET

Cesar De la Torre April 5, 2019 Apr 5, 2019 04/5/19

ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework (Windows, Linux, macOS) for .NET developers. Using ML.NET, developers can leverage their existing tools and skillsets to develop and infuse custom AI into their applications by creating custom machine learning models for common scenarios like Sentiment Analysis, ...

Making CPU configuration better for GC on machines with > 64 CPUs

maoni April 3, 2019 Apr 3, 2019 04/3/19

If you are running Windows on a machine with > 64 CPUs, you’ll need to use this feature called the CPU groups for your process to be able to use more than 64 CPUs. At some point in the far distant past, people thought having more than 64 processors on a machine was inconceivable so they used a 64-bit number for the processor mask. And when ...

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