August 2020 | .NET Blog

App Trimming in .NET 5

Sam SpencerAugust 31, 2020Aug 31, 202008/31/20

Trimming is an option as part of publishing self contained apps in .NET Core. This post goes into more detail about the trimming options in .NET 5 including type and member level trimming.

Introducing the Half type!

Prashanth GovindarajanAugust 31, 2020Aug 31, 202008/31/20

The IEEE 754 specification defines many floating point types, including: binary16, binary32, binary64 and binary128. Most developers are familiar with binary32 (equivalent to float in C#) and binary64 (equivalent to double in C#). They provide a standard format to represent a wide range of values with a precision acceptable for many ...

Big Plans for Big Data and .NET for Spark

Jeremy LiknessAugust 31, 2020Aug 31, 202008/31/20

The .NET for Spark team is seeking your feedback to improve the experience of working with big data in .NET.

F# 5 update for August

Phillip CarterAugust 27, 2020Aug 27, 202008/27/20

We’re excited to announce more updates to F# 5 which will go alongside .NET 5 preview 8! We've shipped various updates since the beginning of this year: Today, we're pleased to announce the completion of the F# 5 feature work. There is one minor enhancement planned for the .NET 5 RC, but other than that we are finished with F# 5! ...

Automatically find latent bugs in your code with .NET 5

Jonathon MarolfAugust 27, 2020Aug 27, 202008/27/20

Introduction to the new Analysis Level feature shipping in .NET 5 Preview 8

Announcing Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 5.0 Preview 8

Jeremy LiknessAugust 25, 2020Aug 25, 202008/25/20

Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 8 is here with Table-per-type (TPT), table-valued functions support, SQLite table rebuilds for migrations and more.

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 8

Rich Lander [MSFT]August 25, 2020Aug 25, 202008/25/20

Today, we are releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 8. The .NET 5.0 release is now "feature complete", meaning that very nearly all features are in their final form (with the exception of bug fixes still to come). Preview 8 is, appropriately, the last preview. We plan on releasing two go-live release candidates before the final .NET 5.0 release in ...

New C# Source Generator Samples

Luca BologneseAugust 25, 2020Aug 25, 202008/25/20

This post describes two new generators that we added to the samples project in the Roslyn SDK github repo.

The first generator gives you strongly typed access to CSV data. The second one creates string constants based on Mustache specifications.

August ML.NET API and Tooling Updates

Bri AchtmanAugust 20, 2020Aug 20, 202008/20/20

ML.NET is an open-source, cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET developers. It enables integrating machine learning into your .NET apps without requiring you to leave the .NET ecosystem or even have a background in ML or data science. ML.NET provides tooling (Model Builder UI in Visual Studio and the cross platform ML.NET CLI) ...

.NET Framework August 2020 Cumulative Update Preview

Tara OverfieldAugust 20, 2020Aug 20, 202008/20/20

Today, we are releasing the August 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 WPF2 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Cumulative...

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