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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 ...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.6.2 Preview

March 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016 03/30/16
Stacey Haffner [MSFT]
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is not supported. We are pleased to announce the .NET Framework Preview 4.6.2. You can download the release from one of the following links: We've added new features and APIs in the following areas of the product: You can see the...

The week in .NET – 3/29/2016

March 29, 2016 Mar 29, 2016 03/29/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 3/22/2016. Build conference The Build conference is this week! Stay tuned to this blog for announcements. You can find the list of sessions on Channel 9, which is also where you'll be able to watch the videos. On.NET Last week on On .NET, we had Richard Kiene from Joyent to talk about ...

The week in .NET – 3/22/2016

March 22, 2016 Mar 22, 2016 03/22/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 3/15/2016. Build Next week, many of us will be in San Francisco for the Build conference. This is a very exciting opportunity for us to present our latest work on .NET, and we hope to meet lots of you there. If you can't be there with us, don't worry, as the keynotes will be broadcast live, ...

The week in .NET – 3/15/2016

March 15, 2016 Mar 15, 2016 03/15/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 3/8/2016. On.NET Last week, we had Nick Craver on the show to talk about StackOverflow. It was lots of fun, and I highly recommend watching if you're interested in getting an inside look at how StackOverflow is being maintained and kept a high-performance site. Exceptionally this week, we won'...

The week in .NET – 3/8/2016

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 3/1/2016. On.NET Last week, Rachel Reese was on the show to talk about her work with F# at Jet.com. This week, we'll talk performance with Nick Craver, who works for StackOverflow. Project of the week: Humanitarian Toolbox's allReady allReady is a project managed by the charity organization ...