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Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 1

March 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020 03/16/20
Arthur Vickers
Today we are excited to announce the first preview release of EF Core 5.0. Prerequisites The previews of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1. This means: EF Core 5.0 runs on .NET Core 3.1; it does not require .NET 5. This may change in future previews depending on how the plan for .NET 5 evolves. EF Core 5.0 runs on other platforms ...

Announcing .NET 5 Preview 1

March 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020 03/16/20
Scott Hunter [MSFT]
At the end of last year, we shipped .NET Core 3.0 and 3.1. These versions added the desktop app models Windows Forms (WinForms) and WPF, ASP.NET Blazor for building single page applications and gRPC for cross-platform, contract-based messaging. We also added templates for building services, rich generation of client code for talking to gRPC, ...

What do you want to see next in ML.NET?

March 11, 2020 Mar 11, 2020 03/11/20
Bri Achtman
ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework made for .NET developers. Using ML.NET, you can stay in .NET to easily build and consume custom machine learning models for scenarios like sentiment analysis, price prediction, sales forecasting, recommendation, image classification, and more. Over the past six months, ...

Announcing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool 1.0!

March 10, 2020 Mar 10, 2020 03/10/20
Sarah Oslund
Today we are releasing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool for Windows and Mac! Starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3, Visual Studio manages the versions of the SDK and runtime it installs. In previous versions, SDKs and runtimes were left on upgrade in case those versions were targeted or pinned with global.json. We realized this was not ...

How to write a Roslyn Analyzer

March 4, 2020 Mar 4, 2020 03/4/20
Mika Dumont
Roslyn analyzers inspect your code for style, quality, maintainability, design and other issues. Because they are powered by the .NET Compiler Platform, they can produce warnings in your code as you type even before you’ve finished the line. In other words, you don’t have to build your code to find out that you made a mistake. Analyzers ...