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Orchard Core Release Candidate 2 now available

We are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core RC2 is now available. What is Orchard Core? Orchard Core Framework is a community-based application framework for building modular, multi-tenant applications on ASP.NET Core. It has been created by more than 150 contributors and has over 4K stars on GitHub. Orchard Core also includes Orchard ...

F# 5 and F# tools update for June

We’re excited to announce more updates to F# 5 today! We shipped an initial set of features with F# 5 preview 1, and they have all been stabilizing since that release including a updates from last month. Today, we’re happy to announce some new language features, a sneak peek at using F# in VSCode notebooks, and some F# tooling updates that...

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 6

.NET 5 Preview 6 is now available and is ready for evaluation. Here's what's new in this release: Get started To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 5.0 Preview 6 install the .NET 5.0 SDK. You need to use Visual Studio 2019 16.7 or Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.6 to use .NET 5.0. Install the latest version of the C# extension, to ...

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 6

Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 6. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but some are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be feature-complete with ...

Introducing “Web Live Preview”

If you work on any type of app that has a user interface (UI) you probably have experienced that inner-loop development cycle of making a change, compile and run the app, see the change wasn’t what you wanted, stop debugging, then re-run the cycle again. Depending on the frameworks or technology you use, there are options to improve this ...

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 5

.NET 5 Preview 5 is now available and is ready for evaluation! .NET 5 will be a current release. Get started To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 5.0 Preview5 install the .NET 5.0 SDK. If you're on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing Visual Studio 2019 16.6. If you're on macOS, we recommend installing the latest ...