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Introducing Project Tye

May 21, 2020 May 21, 2020 05/21/20
Amiee Lo
Project Tye Project Tye is an experimental developer tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier. When building an app made up of multiple projects, you often want to run more than one at a time, such as a website that communicates with a backend API or several services all ...

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20
Scott Hunter [MSFT]
You can build anything with .NET. It's one of the main reasons millions of developers choose .NET as the platform for their careers, and companies invest for their businesses. With .NET 5 we begin our journey of unifying the .NET platform, bringing .NET Core and Mono/Xamarin together in one base class library (BCL) and toolchain (SDK). As ...

Async ValueTask Pooling in .NET 5

March 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020 03/16/20
Stephen Toub - MSFT
The async/await feature in C# has revolutionized how developers targeting .NET write asynchronous code. Sprinkle some and around, change some return types to be tasks, and badda bing badda boom, you've got an asynchronous implementation. In theory. In practice, obviously I've exaggerated the ease with which a codebase can be made fully ...

Announcing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool 1.0!

March 10, 2020 Mar 10, 2020 03/10/20
Sarah Oslund
Today we are releasing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool for Windows and Mac! Starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3, Visual Studio manages the versions of the SDK and runtime it installs. In previous versions, SDKs and runtimes were left on upgrade in case those versions were targeted or pinned with . We realized this was not ideal and might...