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Prism grows up

March 19th, 2015
It's been over seven years since the Prism project started, led by the patterns & practices team. It was originally known as the Composite Application Library. Last year, we celebrated our 5th official release of Prism. The two major focuses of that release were: composability and ease of community contribution. From the beginning, Prism ...

dotnetConf is back, this Wednesday

March 16th, 2015
dotnetConf is a free, 2 day virtual event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, and it’s this Wednesday! As you can guess by its name, it’s dedicated to your favorite development platform, .NET. Grab a comfortable chair, a pot of your favorite hot (or cold) beverage and a mind to fill with all the latest .NET product and ...

CoreCLR is now Open Source

February 3rd, 2015
We’re excited to announce that CoreCLR is now open source on GitHub. CoreCLR is the .NET execution engine in .NET Core, performing functions such as garbage collection and compilation to machine code. .NET Core is a modular implementation of .NET that can be used as the base stack for a wide variety of scenarios, today scaling from console ...

Announcing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET

November 12th, 2014
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the final version of the .NET Framework 4.6. Today is a pivotal moment for .NET. With the release of .NET 2015 Preview, we are embarking on a new journey while maintaining our strong commitment ...

Announcing October 2014 Updates to .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext and .NET Native in Visual Studio “14” CTP4

October 6th, 2014
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Today, we are announcing updates to the .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext and .NET Native. These are all available in Visual Studio “14” CTP4. This .NET Framework release contains RyuJIT, the next generation X64 JIT. ASP.NET vNext contains major improvements in ...

.NET Micro Framework now supports Visual Studio 2013

September 24th, 2014
Today the .NET Micro Framework team is releasing a beta update of the .NET Micro Framework SDK that adds support for Visual Studio 2013. The release also contains other improvements that will benefit developers and hardware partners, making the install and update experience better. Check out the .NET Micro Framework Team blog, and the Netmf....

.NET Micro Framework now supports Visual Studio 2013

September 24th, 2014
Today the .NET Micro Framework team is releasing a beta update of the .NET Micro Framework SDK that adds support for Visual Studio 2013. The release also contains other improvements that will benefit developers and hardware partners, making the install and update experience better. Check out the .NET Micro Framework Team blog, and the Netmf....

Try out the new releases: .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext, .NET Native and RyuJIT

August 18th, 2014
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Today, we are announcing updated versions of .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext, .NET Native and RyuJIT. You can try out these new releases by installing Visual Studio “14” CTP3. Please tell us what you think. The .NET Framework vNext We are releasing an early ...

Leveraging existing code across .NET platforms

August 6th, 2014
Today we are happy to announce the alpha release of the .NET Portability Analyzer extension for Visual Studio. Please try it out. This add-in was created by our software developer intern Charles Lowell. Over the last few years, consumers and enterprise employees are using more devices than before which run different operating systems like iOS...

Leveraging existing code across .NET platforms

August 6th, 2014
Today we are happy to announce the alpha release of the .NET Portability Analyzer extension for Visual Studio. Please try it out. This add-in was created by our software developer intern Charles Lowell. Over the last few years, consumers and enterprise employees are using more devices than before which run different operating systems like iOS...