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ASP.NET Core Apps Observability

Based on interactions with customers using .NET Core in different environments, this article explores options for adding observability to .NET Core apps. Looking specifically into OpenTelemetry and Application Insights SDKs to add observability to a sample distributed application.

An Introduction to DataFrame

Last month, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks, and showed how to use them to work with .NET for Apache Spark and ML.NET. Today, we're announcing the preview of a DataFrame type for .NET to make data exploration easy. If you've used Python to manipulate data in notebooks, you'll already be familiar with the concept of a DataFrame...

ConfigureAwait FAQ

.NET added / to the languages and libraries over seven years ago. In that time, it's caught on like wildfire, not only across the .NET ecosystem, but also being replicated in a myriad of other languages and frameworks. It's also seen a ton of improvements in .NET, in terms of additional language constructs that utilize asynchrony, APIs ...

An Introduction to System.Threading.Channels

"Producer/consumer" problems are everywhere, in all facets of our lives. A line cook at a fast food restaurant, slicing tomatoes that are handed off to another cook to assemble a burger, which is handed off to a register worker to fulfill your order, which you happily gobble down. Postal drivers delivering mail all along their routes, and you ...

GC Perf Infrastructure – Part 1

We open sourced our new GC Perf Infrastructure! It’s now part of the dotnet performance repo. I’ve been meaning to write about it ‘cause some curious minds had been asking when they could use it after I blogged about it last time but didn’t get around to it till now. First of all, let me point out that the target audience of this ...

.NET Core 2.2 will reach End of Life on December 23, 2019

.NET Core 2.2 was released on December 4, 2018. As a non-LTS ("Current") release, it is supported for three months after the next release. .NET Core 3.0 was released on September 23, 2019. As a result, .NET Core 2.2 is supported until December 23, 2019. After that time, .NET Core patch updates will no longer include updated packages of ...

.NET Core November 2019 Updates – 2.1.14, 2.2.8, and 3.0.1

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core November 2019 Update. These updates only contain non-security fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a Visual Studio user, there are MSBuild version requirements so use only the .NET Core SDK supported for each Visual Studio version. Information needed to...

Building Modern Cloud Applications using Pulumi and .NET Core

This is a guest post from the Pulumi team. Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code tool that helps developers and infrastructure teams work better together to create, deploy, and manage cloud applications using their favorite languages. For more information, see https://pulumi.com/dotnet. We are excited to announce .NET Core support ...