Rich Lander [MSFT]

Program Manager, .NET Team

Richard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET Core team. He works on making .NET Core work great in memory-limited Docker containers, on ARM hardware like the Raspberry Pi, and enabling GPIO programming and IoT scenarios. He is part of the design team that defines new .NET runtime capabilities and features. He enjoys British rock and Doctor Who. He grew up in Canada and New Zealand.

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Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks

December 4th, 2018
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1. It is the first public release of .NET Core 3. We have some exciting new features to share and would love your feedback. You can develop .NET Core 3 applications with Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1, and Visual Studio Code. It will be supported in a later version of Visual Studio for Mac. ...

Announcing .NET Core 2.2

December 4th, 2018
We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.2. It includes diagnostic improvements to the runtime, support for ARM32 for Windows and Azure Active Directory for SQL Client. The biggest improvements in this release are in ASP.NET Core. ASP.NET Core 2.2 and Entity Framework Core 2.2 are also releasing today. You can download and ...

Bringing .NET application performance analysis to Linux

October 24th, 2018
Both the Windows and Linux ecosystems have a swath of battle-hardened performance analysis and investigation tools. But up until recently, developers and platform engineers could use none of these tools with .NET applications on Linux. Getting them to work with .NET involved collaboration across many open source communities. The .NET team ...

.NET Core Source Code Analysis with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier

October 23rd, 2018
This post was written by Varun Venkatesan, Li Tian, Denis Pravdin, who are engineers at Intel. They are excited to share .NET Core-specific enhancements that Intel has made to VTune Amplifier 2019. You can use this tool to use to make .NET Core applications faster on Intel processors. Update (2019.01.14): VTune™ Amplifier 2019 Update 2 ...

Call For Participation: .NET and TypeScript at FOSDEM conference

October 23rd, 2018
The organizers of the FOSDEM 2019 conference have allocated a “Developer Room” on Saturday February 2nd 2019 for .NET and TypeScript discussions in Brussels Belgium.   FOSDEM is one of Europe’s most exciting free software conferences that runs over a weekend and gathers many open source communities, contributors and activists in one ...

Announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3

October 17th, 2018
Announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3 as well as ASP.NET Core 2.2 Preview 3, and Entity Framework 2.2 Preview 3 release. .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3 can be used with Visual Studio 15.9 Preview 3 (or later), Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio Code. Download and test it out! We’re looking for feedback on the release with the intent of shipping the final version later this year.

Announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 2

September 12th, 2018
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 2. We have great improvements that we want to share and that we would love to get your feedback on, either in the comments or at dotnet/core #1938. ASP.NET Core 2.2 Preview 2 and Entity Framework 2.2 Preview 2 are also releasing today. We are also announcing C# 7.3 and ML.NET 0.5. You can ...

Advisory serializing/deserializing a CultureAwareComparer with .NET Framework 4.6+

August 13th, 2018
An issue with serializing/deserializing a CultureAwareComparer was discovered with .NET Framework 4.7.1. This issue was resolved earlier this year, with the May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. We recently learned that some applications, including Johnson Controls’ C-CURE 9000 Software, were negatively impacted by this change as this ...

Advisory on July 2018 .NET Framework Updates

July 20th, 2018
Update as of 7/30/2018: A new .NET Framework July 2018 Update has been released that resolves this advisory. We recommend that you install this update on your systems if you experienced the symptoms described in this advisory. If you did not experience these symptoms, we recommend you wait to update your machines until the next regular update...

.NET Core July 2018 Update

July 10th, 2018
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core July 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 1.0.12, .NET Core 1.1.9, .NET Core 2.0.9 and .NET Core 2.1.2. Security .NET Core Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability CVE-2018-8356: Microsoft is aware of a security feature bypass vulnerability that exists when .NET Core does not correctly validate ...