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.NET Framework Repair Tool

Today, we are announcing an update to .NET Framework Repair tool. In case you are not familiar with previous releases of this tool, here is a bit of background. Occasionally, some customers will run into issues when deploying a .NET Framework release or its updates and the issue may not be fixed from within the setup itself. In such cases, ...

Building Modern Cloud Applications using Pulumi and .NET Core

This is a guest post from the Pulumi team. Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code tool that helps developers and infrastructure teams work better together to create, deploy, and manage cloud applications using their favorite languages. For more information, see https://pulumi.com/dotnet. We are excited to announce .NET Core support ...

.NET Core 3 for Windows Desktop

Intro In September, we released .NET Core support for building Windows desktop applications, including WPF and Windows Forms. Since then, we have been delighted to see so many developers share their stories of migrating desktop applications (and controls libraries) to .NET Core. We constantly hear stories of .NET Windows desktop developers ...

Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2

Today, we're announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2. .NET Core 3.1 will be a small and short release focused on key improvements in Blazor and Windows desktop, the two big additions in .NET Core 3.0.. It will be a long term support (LTS) release with an expected final ship date of December 2019. You can download .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2 on Windows...

The history of the GC configs

Recently, Nick from Stack Overflow tweeted about his experience of using the .NET Core GC configs – he seemed quite happy with them (minus the fact they are not documented well which is something I’m talking to our doc folks about). I thought it’d be fun to tell you about the history of the GC configs ‘cause it’s almost the weekend ...

Continuously deploy and monitor your UWP, WPF, and Windows Forms app with App Center

App Center is an integrated developer solution with the mission of helping developers build better apps. Last week, we announced General Availability support of distribute, analytics and diagnostics service for WPF and Windows Forms desktop applications. We also expanded our existing UWP offerings to include crash and error reporting for ...

Introducing Orleans 3.0

This is a guest post from the Orleans team. Orleans is a cross-platform framework for building distributed applications with .NET. For more information, see https://github.com/dotnet/orleans. We are excited to announce the Orleans 3.0 release. A great number of improvements and fixes went in, as well as several new features, since Orleans 2.0...