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Performance Improvements in .NET 5

Stephen Toub - MSFTJuly 13, 2020Jul 13, 202007/13/20

Explore many performance improvements, big and small, that have gone into the .NET 5 runtime and core libraries to make apps and services leaner and faster.

F# 5 and F# tools update for June

Phillip CarterJune 26, 2020Jun 26, 202006/26/20

We’re excited to announce more updates to F# 5 today! We shipped an initial set of features with F# 5 preview 1, and they have all been stabilizing since that release including a updates from last month. Today, we’re happy to announce some new language features, a sneak peek at using F# in VSCode notebooks, and some F# tooling updates that

Announcing Entity Framework Core EFCore 5.0 Preview 6

Jeremy LiknessJune 25, 2020Jun 25, 202006/25/20

Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the sixth preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes split queries for related collections, a new "index" attribute, improved exceptions related to query translations, IP address mapping, exposing transaction id for correlation, and much more. Prerequisites EF Core 5.0 will not run o

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 6

Rich Lander [MSFT]June 25, 2020Jun 25, 202006/25/20

Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 6. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but some are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be feature-complete with Previ

Introducing dotnet-monitor, an experimental tool

Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]June 23, 2020Jun 23, 202006/23/20

dotnet-monitor is an experimental tool that makes it easier to get access to diagnostics information in a dotnet process. When running a dotnet application differences in diverse local and production environments can make collecting diagnostics artifacts (e.g., logs, traces, process dumps) challenging. dotnet-monitor aims to simplify the pr

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5

Jeremy LiknessJune 10, 2020Jun 10, 202006/10/20

Announcing the release of Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5 featuring database collations, flowing arguments to IDesignTimeDbContextFactory, no tracking queries with identity resolution, stored (persisted) columns and SQLite computed columns.

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 5

Rich Lander [MSFT]June 10, 2020Jun 10, 202006/10/20

Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 5. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but many are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be very close to feature-compl

.NET Core June 2020 Updates – 2.1.19 and 3.1.5

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)June 9, 2020Jun 9, 202006/9/20

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core June 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Security CVE-2020-1108: .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability To comprehensively address CVE-2020-1108, Microsoft has released updates for .NET Core 2.1 a

Help us improve WPF and UWP XAML designer

Olia GavryshMay 28, 2020May 28, 202005/28/20

We would like to make your experience developing WPF and UWP applications in Visual Studio better! Currently we are investigating ways of improving the XAML Designer and making you more productive while developing UI for your apps. You can already check out our preview version of the new feature called Suggested Actions that enables easy ac

Continuous integration workflow template for .NET Core desktop apps with GitHub Actions

Edward SkrodMay 28, 2020May 28, 202005/28/20

Learn how to use a starter workflow in GitHub to help you quickly set up and showcase DevOps for your .NET Core desktop applications using GitHub Actions.