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Introducing diagnostics improvements in .NET Core 3.0

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 ...

.NET Core is the Future of .NET 

We introduced .NET Core 1.0 on November 2014. The goal with .NET Core was to take the learning from our experience building, shipping and servicing .NET Framework over the previous 12 years and build a better product. Some examples of these improvements are side-by-side installations (you can install a new version and not worry about ...

Announcing ML.NET 1.0

We are excited to announce the release of ML.NET 1.0 today.  ML.NET is a free, cross-platform and open source machine learning framework designed to bring the power of machine learning (ML) into .NET applications. (image) https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning Star Get Started @ http://dot.net/ml ML.NET allows you to train, ...

Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5

Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5. It includes a new Json serializer, support for publishing single file executables, an update to runtime roll-forward, and changes in the BCL. If you missed it, check out the improvements we released in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4, from last month. Download .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 right now on ...

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 is now available. This iteration was brief for the team and primarily includes bug fixes and improvements to the more significant updates in Preview 4. This post summarizes the important points in this release. Please see the release notes for additional details and ...

Introducing .NET 5

Today, we're announcing that the next release after .NET Core 3.0 will be .NET 5. This will be the next big release in the .NET family. There will be just one .NET going forward, and you will be able to use it to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly and more. We will introduce new .NET APIs, runtime ...

Azure SignalR Service now supports ASP.NET!

Azure SignalR Service is a fully managed real-time messaging service, built on ASP.NET Core SignalR. ASP.NET Core SignalR has many features incompatible with ASP.NET SignalR, so existing ASP.NET SignalR Application doesn't work with SignalR Service. We added the ASP.NET support to SignalR Service SDK to enable this scenario. This blog also lists features that are no longer supported and provides references on documents and code samples.

Introducing .NET for Apache® Spark™ Preview

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

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 ...