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Mar 24, 2020
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.NET Core March 2020 Updates – 2.1.17 and 3.1.3

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)
Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core March 2020 Update. These updates only contain non-security fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a Visual Studio user, there are MSBuild version requirements so use only the .NET Core SDK supported for each Visual Studio version. Information needed to make th...

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Mar 24, 2020
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Catch up on the latest .NET Productivity features

Mika Dumont
Mika Dumont

The Roslyn team continuously works to provide tooling that deeply understands the code you are writing in-order to help you be more productive. In this post, I'll cover some of the latest .NET Productivity features available in Visual Studio 2019. Tooling improvements The feature that I'm most excited about is the new Go To Base command. Go To B...

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Mar 18, 2020
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Announcing F# 5 preview 1

Phillip Carter
Phillip Carter

We're excited to announce that F# 5 preview 1 is now available! Here's how to get it: If you're using Visual Studio on Windows, you'll need both the .NET 5 preview SDK and Visual Studio Preview installed. Using F# 5 preview You can use F# 5 preview via the .NET 5 preview SDK, or through the .NET and Jupyter Notebooks support. If you're usi...

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Mar 17, 2020
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.NET Framework March 2020 Update for Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update) and Windows Server 2016.

Tara Overfield
Tara Overfield

Today, we are releasing an update for .NET Framework 4.8 on Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update) and Windows Server 2016. Security This update does not contain any new security fixes. See January 2020 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability ...

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Mar 17, 2020
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Updates on .NET Core Windows Forms designer

Olia Gavrysh
Olia Gavrysh

We released a preview version of Visual Studio 16.6 - Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 1 and with it a new version of .NET Core Windows Forms designer. This release contains Coming next In the future releases we will be working on and third-party controls support, integration with popular controls vendors, support for...

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Mar 16, 2020
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Async ValueTask Pooling in .NET 5

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

The async/await feature in C# has revolutionized how developers targeting .NET write asynchronous code. Sprinkle some and around, change some return types to be tasks, and badda bing badda boom, you've got an asynchronous implementation. In theory. In practice, obviously I've exaggerated the ease with which a codebase can be made fully asynchron...

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Mar 16, 2020
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Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 1

Arthur Vickers
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: How to get EF Core 5.0 previews EF Core is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can use the following...

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Mar 16, 2020
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Announcing .NET 5 Preview 1

Scott Hunter [MSFT]
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, REST A...

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Mar 12, 2020
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Continuous integration and deployment for desktop apps with GitHub Actions

Edward Skrod
Edward Skrod

From speaking to desktop developers, we’ve heard that you want to learn how to quickly set up continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows for your WPF and Windows Forms applications in order to take advantage of the many benefits CI/CD pipelines have to offer, such as: That's why we created a sample application in Gi...

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