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The week in .NET – 4/27/2016

April 26, 2016 Apr 26, 2016 04/26/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/19/2016. Xamarin Evolve Tomorrow, April 27th, the Xamarin Evolve conference keynote will be streamed live at 9AM EST. Watch it here: https://evolve.xamarin.com/live. On.NET Last week on the show, we had Burke Holland and Sam Basu from Telerik. This week, we'll speak with Benjamin ...

The week in .NET – 4/19/2016

April 19, 2016 Apr 19, 2016 04/19/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/12/2016. On.NET Last week on the show, we looked at what PlayFab is doing to help game developers take advantage of the cloud. This week, we'll be speaking with Telerik. Package of the week: NUglify NUglify is a library that can minify JavaScript and CSS. It has no dependencies, and can ...

Introducing the Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool Version 1.3

April 19, 2016 Apr 19, 2016 04/19/16
Stacey Haffner [MSFT]
This post was written by Rakesh Ranjan Singh, Senior Software Engineer on the .NET Setup team. We are happy to announce the latest version of the .NET Framework Repair Tool that supports all versions of the .NET Framework from 3.5 SP1 to 4.6.1. This version of the tool adds support for .NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1. The .NET Setup ...

On .NET – 4/14/2016 – PlayFab

April 19, 2016 Apr 19, 2016 04/19/16
Bertrand Le Roy
We're back this week with a new episode with PlayFab to talk about how the cloud can help make awesome games. PlayFab is going to be present at a few conferences over the next couple of months: Mobile Dev + Test: https://mobiledevtest.techwell.com/program/concurrent-sessions/can-your-mobile-infrastructure-survive-million-concurrent-...

What’s new for the .NET Native Compiler and Runtime in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

April 18, 2016 Apr 18, 2016 04/18/16
Stacey Haffner [MSFT]
Last week we released an update to the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Universal Windows Apps (UWA). The release includes improvements across the libraries, runtime, and compiler. This means that development is faster and applications will be more responsive and easier to maintain. Applications such as NCAA March Madness Live and TuneIn Radio ...

The week in .NET – 4/12/2016

April 12, 2016 Apr 12, 2016 04/12/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/5/2016. On.NET We had to reschedule last week's show, but we'll be back this week with a new episode with PlayFab to talk about how the cloud can help make awesome games. Project of the week: Math.NET Numerics Math.NET is an open source initiative to implement mathematical computation in...

The week in .NET – 4/5/2016

April 5, 2016 Apr 5, 2016 04/5/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 3/29/2016. On.NET Last week was a thrilling one for the .NET community, with lots of exciting announcements made at the Build conference. We decided to move the show to avoid being in direct competition with Build's live stream. On Monday, we recorded a show with John Kemnetz on the new ...

What’s New for C# and VB in Visual Studio

April 2, 2016 Apr 2, 2016 04/2/16
Rich Lander [MSFT]
This week at Build 2016, we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and Visual Studio “15” Preview. Both releases include many new language features that you can try today. It’s safe to install both versions of Visual Studio on the same machine so that you can check out all of the new features for yourself. New C# and VB features in ...

.NET at Build 2016 – Open, Cross-platform and FREE

April 1, 2016 Apr 1, 2016 04/1/16
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Wow! Could you imagine your ecosystem being this good? It is. Today, at Build 2016, we surprised a lot of people with some amazing announcements. If you were watching, you could tell that Scott Guthrie was having a lot of fun on stage. The announcements ranged from device to cloud, including a lot of open source and a lot of FREE! For .NET ...