To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 5/3/2016. On.NET Last week in On .NET, we had the pleasure to speak with Andy De George about SadConsole, his text-based gaming engine. This week's guest is still TBD. Post of the week: Stack Overflow - How we do deployment This week, I want to do something exceptional for an exceptional post: extrac...

Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This post was written by Scott Hunter. You all want .NET Core 1.0 RC2, you want a schedule, and you want to go live. Today we've got a schedule to share plus some changes that will improve things for everyone in the .NET Community going forward. The Core Schedule ...

Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This post was written by Scott Hunter. You all want .NET Core 1.0 RC2, you want a schedule, and you want to go live. Today we've got a schedule to share plus some changes that will improve things for everyone in the .NET Community going forward. The Core Schedule ...

This post was written by Mike Rousos, a software engineer on the .NET team. Introduction In this recent post, Taylor introduced the .NET Framework Compatibility Diagnostics, a set of Roslyn-based code analyzers for detecting when an app is likely to encounter compatibility issues between two versions of the .NET Framework. This article gives a litt...

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/27/2016. Evolve conference Xamarin Evolve, the largest cross-platform mobile event in the world, happened last week. The .NET team was there to celebrate all things Xamarin with our good friends, and now colleagues. All the sessions can be watched on YouTube, with an incredible cast of speakers tha...

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/27/2016. Evolve conference Xamarin Evolve, the largest cross-platform mobile event in the world, happened last week. The .NET team was there to celebrate all things Xamarin with our good friends, and now colleagues. All the sessions can be watched on YouTube, with an incredible cast of speakers t...

This post was written by Mike Rousos, a software engineer on the .NET team. Introduction Beginning with the .NET Framework 4.0, all versions of the .NET Framework with a major version number of 4 (called ‘4.x’ versions) install as in-place updates. This means that only one 4.x .NET Framework is installed on a computer at a time. Installing the .NET...

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/19/2016. Xamarin Evolve Tomorrow, April 27th, the Xamarin Evolve conference keynote will be streamed live at 9AM EST. Watch it here: https://evolve.xamarin.com/live. On.NET Last week on the show, we had Burke Holland and Sam Basu from Telerik. This week, we'll speak with Benjamin Fistein and ...

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/12/2016. On.NET Last week on the show, we looked at what PlayFab is doing to help game developers take advantage of the cloud. This week, we'll be speaking with Telerik. Package of the week: NUglify NUglify is a library that can minify JavaScript and CSS. It has no dependencies, and can run on ...

We're back this week with a new episode with PlayFab to talk about how the cloud can help make awesome games. PlayFab is going to be present at a few conferences over the next couple of months: Mobile Dev + Test: https://mobiledevtest.techwell.com/program/concurrent-sessions/can-your-mobile-infrastructure-survive-million-concurrent-users ST...