August 2019 | .NET Blog

.NET Framework August 30, 2019 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1903

Brett LopezAugust 30, 2019Aug 30, 201908/30/19

The August 2019 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 on Windows 10 version 1903 was released.
Quality and Reliability
This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.

Addresses a crash that occurs after enumerating event logs.
Addresses a regression caused by the fix for the issue involving bindings with DataContext explicitly on the binding path.

How the .NET Team uses Azure Pipelines to produce Docker Images

Matt ThalmanAugust 28, 2019Aug 28, 201908/28/19

Producing Docker images for .NET might not seem like that big of a deal. Once you’ve got a Dockerfile defined, just run “docker build“ and “docker push“ and you’re done, right? Then just rinse and repeat when new versions of .NET are released and that should be all that’s needed.

Visual Studio Tips and Tricks: Increasing your Productivity for .NET

Mika DumontAugust 22, 2019Aug 22, 201908/22/19

The .NET team is constantly thinking of new ways to make developers more productive. We’ve been working hard over the past year to take the feedback you’ve sent us and turn it into tools that you want! In this post I’ll cover some of the latest productivity features available in Visual Studio 2019 Preview.

Messaging Practices

Glenn Condron [MSFT]August 22, 2019Aug 22, 201908/22/19

This post is a collection of content from David Boike from the Particular.net blog calling out some common problems and solutions for building message based distributed systems. They are relevant to anyone building apps using messaging, and anyone building a Microservice based solution should definitely be interested in the first post about slimming down events.

Hey .NET! Have you tried ML.NET?

Bri AchtmanAugust 21, 2019Aug 21, 201908/21/19

ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework made for .NET developers.
Using ML.NET you can easily build custom machine learning models for scenarios like sentiment analysis, price prediction, sales forecasting, recommendation, image classification, and more.
ML.NET 1.0 was released at //Build 2019,

.NET Framework August 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup

Brett LopezAugust 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19

Today, we are releasing the August 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup.
Quality and Reliability
This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.
BCL1

Addresses a crash that occurs after enumerating event logs. [910822]

1 Base Class Library (BCL)

Getting the Update
The Preview of Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update,

.NET Core and systemd

Glenn Condron [MSFT]August 19, 2019Aug 19, 201908/19/19

In preview7 a new package was added to the `Microsoft.Extensions` set of packages that enables integration with systemd. For the Windows focused, systemd allows similar functionality to Windows Services, there is a post on how to do what we discuss here for Windows Services in this post.

.NET Framework 4.8 is available on Windows Update, WSUS and MU Catalog

Namrata KarnamAugust 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19

01/14/2020: This post has been updated with information about the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 for Windows Updates released on January 14, 2020 via Windows Update/WSUS/Catalog to include the servicing fixes since the .NET Framework 4.8 August 2019 Windows Update. Apart from the servicing fixes,

Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8

Rich Lander [MSFT]August 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19

Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8. Just like with Preview 7, we’ve focused on polishing .NET Core 3.0 for a final release and are not adding new features. If these final previews seem anti-climatic, that’s by design.
Download .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 right now on Windows,

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 8

Diego VegaAugust 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19

The Preview 8 versions of the EF Core 3.0 package and the EF 6.3 package are now available for download from nuget.org.
New previews of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available today.
Please install these previews to validate that all the functionality required by your applications is available and works correctly.

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