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Continuously deploy and monitor your UWP, WPF, and Windows Forms app with App Center

October 31, 2019 Oct 31, 2019 10/31/19
Winnie Li (MSFT)
App Center is an integrated developer solution with the mission of helping developers build better apps. Last week, we announced General Availability support of distribute, analytics and diagnostics service for WPF and Windows Forms desktop applications. We also expanded our existing UWP offerings to include crash and error reporting for ...

Fall .NET Core Survey

October 17, 2019 Oct 17, 2019 10/17/19
Sam Spencer
It’s been a busy time for .NET Core – we just shipped 3.0, and are currently working on a few updates for v3.1 (due in November.) As we turn our attention to .NET Core 5.0, we want to take a step back and see what you are doing with .NET Core and how we can make it even better. We have put together a quick survey that will help us ...

ML.NET and Model Builder at .NET Conf 2019 (Machine Learning for .NET)

September 24, 2019 Sep 24, 2019 09/24/19
Cesar De la Torre
We are excited today to announce updates to Model Builder and improvements in ML.NET. You can learn more in the “What’s new in ML.NET?.” session at .NET Conf. ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework (Windows, Linux, macOS) for .NET developers. ML.NET offers Model Builder Model Builder (a simple UI tool) ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 General Availability

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19
Diego Vega
We are extremely excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.0and EF 6.3 on nuget.org. The final versions of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available now. How to get EF Core 3.0 EF Core 3.0 is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can ...

Announcing .NET Core 3.0

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Announcing .NET Core 3.0 We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more patterns. F# 4.7 is ...

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19
Daniel Roth
ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Today we are thrilled to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0! .NET Core 3.0 is ready for production use, and is loaded with lots of great new features for building amazing web apps with ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Some of the big new features in this release of ASP.NET Core include...

Release Candidate builds of Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 are now available

September 16, 2019 Sep 16, 2019 09/16/19
Diego Vega
We previously said that preview 9 would be your last chance to test EF Core 3.0 and EF 6.3 before general availability. But it turns out that we made enough improvements to our libraries and across the whole of .NET Core 3.0 to justify publishing a release candidate build. Hence the packages for EF Core 3.0 RC1 and EF 6.3 RC1 were uploaded to ...