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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 ...

GC Perf Infrastructure – Part 0

September 9, 2019 Sep 9, 2019 09/9/19
maoni
In this blog entry and some future ones I will be showing off functionalities that our new GC perf infrastructure provides. Andy and I have been working on it (he did all the work; I merely played the consultant role). We will be open sourcing it soon and I wanted to give you some examples of using it and you can add these to your repertoire ...

Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9

September 4, 2019 Sep 4, 2019 09/4/19
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we're announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9. Just like with Preview 8, we've focused on polishing .NET Core 3.0 for a final release and aren't adding new features. If these final builds seem less exciting than earlier previews, that's by design. Download .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9 right now on Windows, macOS, and Linux. ASP.NET Core, EF...

Hardware Intrinsics in .NET Core

September 3, 2019 Sep 3, 2019 09/3/19
Tanner Gooding [MSFT]
Several years ago, we decided that it was time to support SIMD code in .NET. We introduced the System.Numerics namespace with , , , , and related types. These types expose a general-purpose API for creating, accessing, and operating on them using hardware vector instructions (when available). They also provide a software fallback for when...

Messaging Practices

August 22, 2019 Aug 22, 2019 08/22/19
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
This post is a collection of content from David Boike from the Particular.net blog calling out some common problems and solutions for building message based distributed systems. They are relevant to anyone building apps using messaging, and anyone building a Microservice based solution should definitely be interested in the first post about ...

.NET Core and systemd

August 19, 2019 Aug 19, 2019 08/19/19
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
In preview7 a new package was added to the `Microsoft.Extensions` set of packages that enables integration with systemd. For the Windows focused, systemd allows similar functionality to Windows Services, there is a post on how to do what we discuss here for Windows Services in this post. This work was contributed by Tom Deseyn from Red Hat. In...