May 2019 | .NET Blog

Porting desktop apps to .NET Core

Olia Gavrysh May 28, 2019 May 28, 2019 05/28/19

Since I've been working with the community on porting desktop applications from .NET Framework to .NET Core, I've noticed that there are two camps of folks: some want a very simple and short list of instructions to get their apps ported to .NET Core while others prefer a more principled approach with more background information. Instead of ...

The F# development home on GitHub is now dotnet/fsharp

Phillip Carter May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 05/20/19

TL;DR We've moved the F# GitHub repository from microsoft/visualfsharp to dotnet/fsharp, as specified in the corresponding RFC. F# has a somewhat strange history in its name and brand. If we roll back the clocks to the year 2015, F# sort of had two identities. One side of this was Visual F#, or "VisualFSharp"; a product within Visual ...

Create Interactive .NET Documentation with Try .NET

Maria Naggaga May 16, 2019 May 16, 2019 05/16/19

Try .NET is an interactive documentation generator for .NET Core. Using the dotnet try global tool you can now create interactive documentation too. This is an early preview of the dotnet try global tool so, please check our repository and NuGet package for regular updates.

Performance Improvements in .NET Core 3.0

Stephen Toub - MSFT May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019 05/15/19

Take a tour through some of the many improvements, big and small, that have gone into the .NET Core 3.0 runtime and core libraries to make apps and services leaner and faster.

Default implementations in interfaces

Mads Torgersen May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019 05/14/19

Default implementations in interfaces With last week's posts Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 and Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 3, the last major feature of C# 8.0 is now available in preview. A big impediment to software evolution has been the fact that you couldn't add new members to a public interface. You would break ...

.NET Core May 2019 Updates – 1.0.16, 1.1.14, 2.1.11 and 2.2.5

Lee Coward May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019 05/14/19

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core May 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a Visual Studio user, there are MSBuild version requirements so use only the .NET Core SDK supported for each Visual Studio version. Information ...

.NET Framework May 2019 Security and Quality Rollup

Tara Overfield May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019 05/14/19

Today, we are releasing the May 2019 Cumulative Update, Security and Quality Rollup, and Security Only Update. Security CVE-2019-0820 – Denial of Service Vulnerability A denial of service vulnerability exists when .NET Framework and .NET Core improperly process RegEx strings. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could...

Introducing the new Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

Diego Vega May 8, 2019 May 8, 2019 05/8/19

This post was written by Vicky Harp, Program Manager on SqlClient and SQL Server Tools. Those of you who have been following .NET development closely have very likely seen Scott Hunter's latest blog post, .NET Core is the Future of .NET. The change in focus of .NET Framework towards stability and new feature development moving to .NET Core ...

Announcing Entity Framework 6.3 Preview with .NET Core Support

Diego Vega May 8, 2019 May 8, 2019 05/8/19

The first preview of the EF 6.3 runtime is now available in NuGet. Note that the package is versioned as 6.3.0-preview5. We plan to continue releasing previews of EF 6.3 every month in alignment with the .NET Core 3.0 previews, until we ship the final version. What is new in EF 6.3? While Entity Framework Core was built from the ground ...

Introducing diagnostics improvements in .NET Core 3.0

Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT] May 8, 2019 May 8, 2019 05/8/19

In .NET Core 3.0, we are introducing a suite of tools that utilize new features in the .NET runtime that make it easier to diagnose and solve performance problems. These runtime features help you answer some common diagnostic questions you may have: Is my application healthy? Often times an application can slowly start ...

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