September 2020 | .NET Blog

.NET Interactive Preview 3: VS Code Insiders and .NET Polyglot Notebooks

Maria NaggagaSeptember 30, 2020Sep 30, 202009/30/20

With .NET Interactive Preview 3, we've added a VS Code Insiders experience and a number of new features to our existing .NET notebooks support for Jupyter.

Repo experience survey results

Sam SpencerSeptember 29, 2020Sep 29, 202009/29/20

A couple of months ago we ran a survey of our github community to understand our users satisfaction and experience with the mechanics of how the projects are open-sourced with the community. This post shares the results.

ML.NET September Updates

Bri AchtmanSeptember 25, 2020Sep 25, 202009/25/20

This release of ML.NET (1.5.2) brings numerous bug fixes and enhancements, while tooling updates include the ability to train object detection models using Azure ML via Model Builder and to locally train image classification models with the ML.NET CLI.

NET Core Releases and Support

Jamshed DamkewalaSeptember 23, 2020Sep 23, 202009/23/20

While we've covered .NET Core releases, cadence and support policies in previous blog posts, the information has been distributed across a couple of individual posts. With the .NET 5 release just around the corner, we thought this is a good time to bring all the information together into a single post as a refresher on these topics. As we'...

Using GitHub Codespaces with .NET Core

Tim HeuerSeptember 22, 2020Sep 22, 202009/22/20

We've updated our support for developing .NET Core applications in GitHub Codespaces using Visual Studio. Read about the added support we have for editors, testing, debugging, and Azure. Sign up to be invited to the preview for GitHub Codespaces and Visual Studio support!

Debug Your .NET Core Apps in WSL 2 with Visual Studio

Nathan CarlsonSeptember 17, 2020Sep 17, 202009/17/20

The .NET Core Debugging with WSL 2 – Preview extension lets run and debug your .NET Core apps in WSL 2 from Visual Studio.

.NET Framework September 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update

Tara OverfieldSeptember 16, 2020Sep 16, 202009/16/20

The September 16, 2020 update includes cumulative reliability improvements in .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.2 and 4.8. We recommend that you apply this update as part of your regular maintenance routines.

The future of .NET Standard

Immo LandwerthSeptember 15, 2020Sep 15, 202009/15/20

Since .NET 5 was announced, many of you have asked what this means for .NET Standard and whether it will still be relevant. In this post, I'm going to explain how .NET 5 improves code sharing and replaces .NET Standard. I'll also cover the cases where you still need .NET Standard.

Announcing Entity Framework Core (EFCore) 5.0 RC1

Jeremy LiknessSeptember 14, 2020Sep 14, 202009/14/20

Announcing Entity Framework EFCore 5.0 RC1, a "go-live" supported release. This release includes new features like many-to-many, property bags, event counters, required 1:1 dependents and the ability to intercept SaveChanges and listen to save events. It also includes improvements to model-building, migrations, and more.

Announcing .NET 5.0 RC 1

Rich Lander [MSFT]September 13, 2020Sep 13, 202009/13/20

Today, we are shipping .NET 5.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the first of two RCs before the official release in November. RC1 is a "go live" release; you are supported using it in production. At this point, we're looking for reports of any remaining critical bugs that should be fixed before the final ...

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