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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 ...

October 2014 .NET Security Updates

October 13, 2014 Oct 13, 2014 10/13/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-057 - Critical, Vulnerabilities in the .NET Framework could allow remote code execution (3000414)  This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework...

Announcing October 2014 Updates to .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext and .NET Native in Visual Studio “14” CTP4

October 6, 2014 Oct 6, 2014 10/6/14
.NET Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Today, we are announcing updates to the .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext and .NET Native. These are all available in Visual Studio “14” CTP4. This .NET Framework release contains RyuJIT, the next generation X64 JIT. ASP.NET vNext contains major improvements in ...

.NET Micro Framework now supports Visual Studio 2013

September 24, 2014 Sep 24, 2014 09/24/14
.NET Team
Today the .NET Micro Framework team is releasing a beta update of the .NET Micro Framework SDK that adds support for Visual Studio 2013. The release also contains other improvements that will benefit developers and hardware partners, making the install and update experience better. Check out the .NET Micro Framework Team blog, and the Netmf....

.NET Micro Framework now supports Visual Studio 2013

September 24, 2014 Sep 24, 2014 09/24/14
.NET Team
Today the .NET Micro Framework team is releasing a beta update of the .NET Micro Framework SDK that adds support for Visual Studio 2013. The release also contains other improvements that will benefit developers and hardware partners, making the install and update experience better. Check out the .NET Micro Framework Team blog, and the Netmf....

.NET Sample Code on GitHub

September 16, 2014 Sep 16, 2014 09/16/14
Immo Landwerth
Today, we're happy to announce that we've started to move some of our sample assets over to GitHub, using the MIT license. So I can directly answer Ben's question: @ben_a_adams The sample code is now on GitHub. Check out this blog post: https://t.co/LXq2Ka1fLo — Immo Landwerth (@terrajobst) September 16, 2014 Why did we move to GitHub? The...

September 2014 .NET Security Updates

September 9, 2014 Sep 9, 2014 09/9/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released a security bulletin and a security advisory today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.   Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-053 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Denial of Service (2990931)  This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in ...

September 2014 .NET Security Updates

September 9, 2014 Sep 9, 2014 09/9/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released a security bulletin and a security advisory today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.   Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-053 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Denial of Service (2990931)  This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in ...