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Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5

May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 05/6/19
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5. It includes a new Json serializer, support for publishing single file executables, an update to runtime roll-forward, and changes in the BCL. If you missed it, check out the improvements we released in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4, from last month. Download .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 right now on ...

Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 4

April 18, 2019 Apr 18, 2019 04/18/19
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4. It includes a chart control for Windows Forms, HTTP/2 support, GC updates to use less memory, support for CPU limits with Docker, the addition of PowerShell in .NET Core SDK Docker container images, and other improvements. If you missed it, check out the improvements we released in .NET Core 3....

.NET Core Workers in Azure Container Instances

April 15, 2019 Apr 15, 2019 04/15/19
Brady Gaster
In .NET Core 3.0 we are introducing a new type of application template called Worker Service. This template is intended to give you a starting point for writing long running services in .NET Core. In this walkthrough you'll learn how to use a Worker with Azure Container Registry anAzure Container Instances to get your Worker running as a microservice in the cloud.

.NET Core April 2019 Updates – 2.1.10 and 2.2.4

April 9, 2019 Apr 9, 2019 04/9/19
Vivek Mishra
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core April 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on included fixes. Security Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2019-0815: ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability A denial of service vulnerability exists in ASP.NET Core 2...

Announcing F# 4.6

March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019 03/29/19
Phillip Carter
We're excited to announce general availability of F# 4.6 and the F# tools for Visual Studio 2019! In this post, I'll show you how to get started, explain the F# 4.6 feature set, give you an update on the F# tools for Visual Studio, and talk about what we're doing next. F# 4.6 was developed entirely via an open RFC (requests for comments) ...

.NET Core Workers as Windows Services

March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019 03/29/19
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
In .NET Core 3.0 we are introducing a new type of application template called Worker Service. This template is intended to give you a starting point for writing long running services in .NET Core. In this walkthrough we will create a worker and run it as a Windows Service. Create a worker Preview Note: In our preview releases the worker ...

Migrating Delegate.BeginInvoke Calls for .NET Core

March 28, 2019 Mar 28, 2019 03/28/19
Mike Rousos
I recently worked with a couple customers migrating applications to .NET Core that had to make code changes to workaround and methods on delegates not being supported on .NET Core. In this post, we'll look at why these APIs aren't implemented for .NET Core, why their usage isn't caught by the .NET API Portability Analyzer, and how to fix ...