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Introducing .NET Core Windows Forms Designer Preview 1

Introducing .NET Core Windows Forms Designer Preview 1

September 30, 2019 Sep 30, 2019 09/30/19

Olia Gavrysh

Introducing .NET Core Windows Forms Designer Preview 1 We just released a GA version of .NET Core 3.0 that includes support for Windows Forms and WPF. And along with that release we're happy to announce the first preview version of the Windows Forms Designer for .NET Core projects! For developers the .NET Core Windows Forms Designer (when ...

.NET Framework September 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup

.NET Framework September 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup

September 26, 2019 Sep 26, 2019 09/26/19

Brett Lopez

We have released the September 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup and Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework for Windows 10 Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. BCL1 CLR2 WPF3 1 Base Class Library (BCL) 2 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 3 Windows Presentation Foundation...

ML.NET and Model Builder at .NET Conf 2019 (Machine Learning for .NET)

ML.NET and Model Builder at .NET Conf 2019 (Machine Learning for .NET)

September 24, 2019 Sep 24, 2019 09/24/19

Cesar De la Torre

We are excited today to announce updates to Model Builder and improvements in ML.NET. You can learn more in the “What’s new in ML.NET?.” session at .NET Conf. ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework (Windows, Linux, macOS) for .NET developers. ML.NET offers Model Builder Model Builder (a simple UI tool) ...

Setting HTTP header attributes to enable Azure authentication/authorization using HTTPRepl

Setting HTTP header attributes to enable Azure authentication/authorization using HTTPRepl

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19

Angelos Petropoulos

Posted on behalf of Ahmed Metwally The HTTP Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) is a lightweight, cross-platform command-line tool that's supported everywhere .NET Core is supported. It’s used for making HTTP requests to test ASP.NET Core web APIs and view their results. You can use the HTTPRepl to navigate and interrogate any API in the same...

Joining the .NET Foundation Maturity Model Pilot

Joining the .NET Foundation Maturity Model Pilot

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19

Rich Lander [MSFT]

Joining the .NET Foundation Maturity Model Pilot The .NET Foundation is starting a new pilot program to increase quality and user confidence in open source projects, using a new project maturity model. We've been working with the Technical Review Action Group at the Foundation to help shape the program. We're happy to see the pilot being ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 General Availability

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 General Availability

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19

Diego Vega

We are extremely excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.0and EF 6.3 on nuget.org. The final versions of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available now. How to get EF Core 3.0 EF Core 3.0 is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can ...

Announcing F# 4.7

Announcing F# 4.7

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19

Phillip Carter

We’re excited to announce general availability of F# 4.7 in conjunction with the .NET Core 3.0 release! In this post, I’ll show you how to get started, explain everything in F# 4.7 and give you a sneak peek at what we’re doing for the next version of F#. F# 4.7 is another incremental release of F# with a focus on infrastructural changes...

Announcing .NET Core 3.0

Announcing .NET Core 3.0

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19

Rich Lander [MSFT]

Announcing .NET Core 3.0 We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more patterns. F# 4.7 is ...

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19

Daniel Roth

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Today we are thrilled to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0! .NET Core 3.0 is ready for production use, and is loaded with lots of great new features for building amazing web apps with ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Some of the big new features in this release of ASP.NET Core include...

Release Candidate builds of Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 are now available

Release Candidate builds of Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 are now available

September 16, 2019 Sep 16, 2019 09/16/19

Diego Vega

We previously said that preview 9 would be your last chance to test EF Core 3.0 and EF 6.3 before general availability. But it turns out that we made enough improvements to our libraries and across the whole of .NET Core 3.0 to justify publishing a release candidate build. Hence the packages for EF Core 3.0 RC1 and EF 6.3 RC1 were uploaded to ...