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Using WCF in .NET Native

August 28, 2014 Aug 28, 2014 08/28/14
Immo Landwerth
This post was authored by Ron Cain, a Software Development Engineer on the WCF team. In our previous post, we mentioned that some of the client components of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) had been made available for .NET Native Windows Store apps in Visual Studio "14" CTP3. In this post, I will describe how to build a sample WCF ...

Being an intern on the .NET Team

August 25, 2014 Aug 25, 2014 08/25/14
Immo Landwerth
This summer we had six amazing interns that joined the team to work on .NET. Their projects ranged from internal tools, over shipping components to designing forward looking aspects: If you're interested in interning with Microsoft, visit our recruiting web site. Now let's dive right in and see what cool stuff they helped us building. ...

August 2014 Security Updates

August 12, 2014 Aug 12, 2014 08/12/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-046 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework could allow Security Feature Bypass (2984625).This update resolves a vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework that could bypass the Address Space...

Moving to the .NET Framework 4.5.2

August 7, 2014 Aug 7, 2014 08/7/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. A few months ago we announced the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.2, a highly compatible, in-place update to the .NET 4.x family (.NET 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1). The .NET Framework 4.5.2 was released only a few short months after the release of .NET 4.5.1 and gives you ...

Leveraging existing code across .NET platforms

August 6, 2014 Aug 6, 2014 08/6/14
.NET Team
Today we are happy to announce the alpha release of the .NET Portability Analyzer extension for Visual Studio. Please try it out. This add-in was created by our software developer intern Charles Lowell. Over the last few years, consumers and enterprise employees are using more devices than before which run different operating systems like iOS...

Leveraging existing code across .NET platforms

August 6, 2014 Aug 6, 2014 08/6/14
.NET Team
Today we are happy to announce the alpha release of the .NET Portability Analyzer extension for Visual Studio. Please try it out. This add-in was created by our software developer intern Charles Lowell. Over the last few years, consumers and enterprise employees are using more devices than before which run different operating systems like iOS...

Leveraging existing code across .NET platforms

August 6, 2014 Aug 6, 2014 08/6/14
.NET Team
Today we are happy to announce the alpha release of the .NET Portability Analyzer extension for Visual Studio. Please try it out. This add-in was created by our software developer intern Charles Lowell. Over the last few years, consumers and enterprise employees are using more devices than before which run different operating systems like iOS...

Leveraging existing code across .NET platforms

August 6, 2014 Aug 6, 2014 08/6/14
.NET Team
Today we are happy to announce the alpha release of the .NET Portability Analyzer extension for Visual Studio. Please try it out. This add-in was created by our software developer intern Charles Lowell. Over the last few years, consumers and enterprise employees are using more devices than before which run different operating systems like iOS...

MultiDictionary becomes MultiValueDictionary

August 5, 2014 Aug 5, 2014 08/5/14
Immo Landwerth
We just shipped an update to our experimental implementation of a multi value dictionary. In this post, our software developer intern Ian Hays talks about the changes. -- Immo Goodbye MultiDictionary In my last post I went over , officially available on NuGet as the prerelease package Microsoft.Experimental.Collections. We received great ...