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Conversation about PGO

Conversation with .NET engineers about profile guided optimization (PGO). They share their perspectives on how PGO works, how it improves even sophisticated compilers, other platforms that have good PGO systems, and what .NET is doing to provide better performance with PGO.

.NET Framework May 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

Yesterday, we released the May 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 Windows Forms WPF2 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)   ...

.NET May 2021 Updates – 5.0.6, 3.1.15, 2.1.28

Today, we are releasing the .NET May 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.6 , 3.1.15, 2.1.28 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Security CVE-...

Put a DPAD on that GC!

(image) Say what? Yes, there's a new feature called DPAD for regions - regions is what we are currently working on in .NET 6 to convert segments to. In this blog post I will first give some introduction to regions then talk about the DPAD feature. Note that it's unlikely we will officially support regions by the end of 6.0 as ...

ASP.NET Core 6 and Authentication Servers

In .NET 3.0 we began shipping IdentityServer4 as part of our template to support the issuing of JWT tokens for SPA and Blazor applications. Sometime after we shipped, the IdentityServer team made an announcement changing the license for future versions of IdentityServer to a reciprocal public license - a license where the code is still open ...