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Introducing .NET Live TV – Daily Developer Live Streams

James Montemagno October 15, 2020 Oct 15, 2020 10/15/20

Introducing .NET Live TV, your one stop shop for all .NET and Visual Studio developer live streams across Twitch and YouTube.

Announcing Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 5 RC2

Jeremy Likness October 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020 10/13/20

Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 gets closer to a final release. RC2 is now available with bug fixes and a go-live license.

Game Development with .NET

Abdullah Hamed October 6, 2020 Oct 6, 2020 10/6/20

Did you want to develop games using .NET? Learn what .NET game engines, tools, and services are available for you when developing games.

ARM64 Performance in .NET 5

Kunal Pathak September 2, 2020 Sep 2, 2020 09/2/20

ARM64 performance work in .NET 5

Introducing the Half type!

Prashanth Govindarajan August 31, 2020 Aug 31, 2020 08/31/20

The IEEE 754 specification defines many floating point types, including: binary16, binary32, binary64 and binary128. Most developers are familiar with binary32 (equivalent to float in C#) and binary64 (equivalent to double in C#). They provide a standard format to represent a wide range of values with a precision acceptable for many ...

Automatically find latent bugs in your code with .NET 5

Jonathon Marolf August 27, 2020 Aug 27, 2020 08/27/20

Introduction to the new Analysis Level feature shipping in .NET 5 Preview 8

Announcing Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 5.0 Preview 8

Jeremy Likness August 25, 2020 Aug 25, 2020 08/25/20

Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 8 is here with Table-per-type (TPT), table-valued functions support, SQLite table rebuilds for migrations and more.

New C# Source Generator Samples

Luca Bolognese August 25, 2020 Aug 25, 2020 08/25/20

This post describes two new generators that we added to the samples project in the Roslyn SDK github repo.

The first generator gives you strongly typed access to CSV data. The second one creates string constants based on Mustache specifications.

Announcing Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 7

Jeremy Likness July 21, 2020 Jul 21, 2020 07/21/20

Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the seventh preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes a factory to create DbContext instances, the ability to reset DbContext state, Cosmos DB improvements including enhanced support for configuration options and partition keys, and much more. In this post To summarize...

Performance Improvements in .NET 5

Stephen Toub - MSFT July 13, 2020 Jul 13, 2020 07/13/20

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.

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