Richard Lander, Author at .NET Blog

Richard Lander Product Manager, .NET Team: Richard Lander is a Program Manager on the .NET team. He works on making .NET 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. Favourite fantasy: Dune and Doctor Who. He grew up in Canada and New Zealand.

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Improving multi-platform container support

March 29th, 2023

Learn how to build containers for multiple architectures, including building containers on Apple M1 machines for an x64 cloud.

Secure your .NET cloud apps with rootless Linux Containers

March 21st, 2023

Learn about patterns for securing your containers with a non-root user, and changes to .NET container images in .NET 8 to enable this behavior.

.NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04

August 16th, 2022

.NET 6 is now included in Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) and can be installed with just apt install dotnet6. This change is a major improvement and simplification for Ubuntu users. We're also releasing .NET with Chiseled Ubuntu Containers, a new small and secure container offering from Canonical. These improvements are the result of a new partnership between Canonical and Microsoft.

Improving .NET host error messages and supportability

June 21st, 2022

Error messages and dotnet --info have been updated with more useful information to improve supportability.

Announcing .NET 6 — The Fastest .NET Yet

November 8th, 2021

.NET 6 is now available. It is easier to use, runs faster, and has many new features.

Announcing .NET 6 Release Candidate 2

October 12th, 2021

.NET 6 Release Candidate 2 is now available.

Announcing .NET 6 Release Candidate 1

September 14th, 2021

.NET 6 RC1 is now available.

.NET Core 2.1 container images will be deleted from Docker Hub

August 16th, 2021

Starting on August 21st, .NET Core 2.1 Docker container images will no longer be available on Docker Hub, but exclusively on Microsoft Container Registry (MCR). Read on for more information.