October 2021

Women IC (Individual Contributor) engineer mentoring ring

October 24, 2021 Oct 24, 2021 10/24/21

During this fiscal year I ran a women IC mentoring ring in the Developer Division at Microsoft. It was part of the women's mentoring ring program in our division. I've always felt a little sad when I looked around and saw very few women ICs at very senior levels. Most women who advanced to those levels became managers. This was what ...

.NET Hot Reload Support via CLI

October 23, 2021 Oct 23, 2021 10/23/21

Scott Hunter [MSFT]

Last week, our blog post and the removal of the Hot Reload capability from the .NET SDK repo led to a lot of feedback from the community.First and foremost, we want to apologize. We made a mistake in executing on our decision and took longer than expected to respond back to the community.

Update on .NET Hot Reload progress and Visual Studio 2022 Highlights

October 20, 2021 Oct 20, 2021 10/20/21

Dmitry Lyalin

.NET Hot Reload progress update. This includes what's new in platform support, user experiences, supported edits and more since our May 2021 blog post. We'll also cover how far we've come with Visual Studio 2022 integration.

What’s new in F# 6

October 19, 2021 Oct 19, 2021 10/19/21

Kathleen Dollard

F# 6 is now a release candidate. Checkout all of the new features available in this release.

Contributing to .NET MAUI Community Toolkit

October 15, 2021 Oct 15, 2021 10/15/21

Brandon Minnick

Announcing the new process for contributing to the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit

.NET Framework October 2021 Security and Quality Rollup

October 13, 2021 Oct 13, 2021 10/13/21

Tara Overfield

Yesterday, we released the October 2021 Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework.SecurityThe October Security and Quality Rollup does not contain any new security fixes. See February 2021 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates.Quality and ReliabilityThis release contains the following quality and reliability ...