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.NET Framework August 2020 Cumulative Update Preview

August 20, 2020 Aug 20, 2020 08/20/20

Tara Overfield

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...

Help us improve Visual Studio project tooling for .NET Core

August 19, 2020 Aug 19, 2020 08/19/20

Phillip Carter

We're currently planning our next set of investments in Visual Studio project tooling for .NET. This tooling, called a project system, sits at the heart of nearly every major action you perform when writing .NET code in Visual Studio. What is the .NET project system? The .NET project system is a set of components that power nearly ...

A Deep Dive into How .NET Builds and Ships

August 19, 2020 Aug 19, 2020 08/19/20

Matt Mitchell

This is a deep technical dive into the machinery and processes used by the .NET Team to build and ship .NET. It will be of interest to those who wish to know about such topics as: This post begins by laying out the multi-repository world that makes up the .NET product, its inherent challenges, and how we deal with them. This...

.NET Core August 2020 Updates – 2.1.21 and 3.1.7

August 11, 2020 Aug 11, 2020 08/11/20

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core August 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Security CVE-2020-1597: ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a ...