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Channel 9 interview on open sourcing .NET

December 8, 2014 Dec 8, 2014 12/8/14
Immo Landwerth
Curious to where we are with open sourcing .NET Core? Do you want to know which libraries are next? Interested in a white boarding session with David Kean? Then you should check out this video on Channel 9: Questions or concerns? Leave a comment on the Channel 9 post...

Introducing .NET Core

December 4, 2014 Dec 4, 2014 12/4/14
Immo Landwerth
At connect(), we announced that .NET Core will be entirely released as open source software. I also promised to follow up with more details on .NET Core. In this post, I’ll provide an overview of .NET Core, how we’re going to release it, how it relates to the .NET Framework, and what this means for cross-platform and open source ...

One Week of Open Source

November 20, 2014 Nov 20, 2014 11/20/14
Immo Landwerth
Last Wednesday, we announced the new .NET 2015 Preview and our plans to fully open source .NET Core. What an awesome week! Thank you! We knew that you guys would really dig open source but we didn’t expect such a positive response. Within a single week, our open source blog post got more than 200k views! And even on GitHub, which seems...

.NET Core is Open Source

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Immo Landwerth
Today is a huge day for .NET! We’re happy to announce that .NET Core will be open source, including the runtime as well as the framework libraries. This is a natural progression of our open source efforts, which already covers the managed compilers (C#, VB, and F#) as well as ASP.NET: This takes it to the next level by ...

Announcing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
.NET Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the final version of the .NET Framework 4.6. Today is a pivotal moment for .NET. With the release of .NET 2015 Preview, we are embarking on a new journey while maintaining our strong commitment ...

November 2014 .NET Security Updates

November 11, 2014 Nov 11, 2014 11/11/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-072 - Important, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3005210)  This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. The ...

November 2014 .NET Security Updates

November 11, 2014 Nov 11, 2014 11/11/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-072 - Important, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3005210)  This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. The ...

Using System.Numerics.Vector for Graphics Programming

November 5, 2014 Nov 5, 2014 11/5/14
Immo Landwerth
We've just released a major update to the SIMD vector types we've blogged about earlier (first announcement, second update). We've now made the vector library a lot more more useful for typical graphics operations. We added matrix types, a plane type, and a quaternion type. We've also added many methods that are often used on fixed size ...