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Visual Studio 16.8 and .NET 5.0 for the first time fully support Windows Forms Designer and the VB Application Framework.
Learn about the latest .NET Productivity features!
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.NET 5.0 includes many enhancements, including single file applications, more capable JSON APIs, new versions of C
Announcing the release of EF Core 5.0, a full featured cross-platform version of Entity Framework that delivers the most requested features like Many-to-Many and Table-Per-Type.
gRPC and .NET are fast. Explore the many performance improvements in gRPC and .NET 5.
Help shape the future of how .NET developers interact with data by sharing your feedback about Entity Framework.
Announcing the release of version 1.0 of .NET for Apache® Spark™, an open source package that brings .NET development to the Apache® Spark™ platform.
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.
Today, we are shipping .NET 5.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2). It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the last of two RCs before the official release in November. RC2 is a "go live" release; you are supported using it in production. At this point, we're looking for reports of any remaining critical bugs that should be fixed before the final releas...
