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Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC

September 9, 2013 Sep 9, 2013 09/9/13
.NET Team
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Update: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM has been released and is available for download. The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC is now available. It comes with a go-live license, enabling you to deploy 4.5.1 apps in production. Here are the RC bits. ...

Updated NuGet Support in Visual Studio 2012.4

September 3, 2013 Sep 3, 2013 09/3/13
Immo Landwerth
As Brian Harry recently announced, there will be a Visual Studio 2012 Update 4. With RC2, we’ve updated the NuGet support. In this blog post, I’ll summarize those improvements. Updated NuGet Client The RTM version of Visual Studio 2012 included a fairly old version of the NuGet client (2.0). Although the NuGet team regularly ...

NuGet Package Restore with Team Foundation Build

August 27, 2013 Aug 27, 2013 08/27/13
Immo Landwerth
Note: This post is now also part of the official NuGet documentation. In this post, I’ll provide a walkthrough on how to use package restore with Team Foundation Build with both, git as well TF version control. In our previous blog post on how we improved package restore, I showed that NuGet 2.7 and Microsoft.Bcl.Build made restoring ...

Portable Compression is now stable

August 22, 2013 Aug 22, 2013 08/22/13
Immo Landwerth
Today we are happy to announce that our portable compression library is now available as a stable NuGet package. Microsoft.Bcl.Compression Microsoft.Bcl.Compression provides the following APIs in a portable fashion: It’s supported on the following platforms: .NET 4.5 and .NET for Windows Store apps already ship ...

Improved Package Restore

August 22, 2013 Aug 22, 2013 08/22/13
Immo Landwerth
As we’ve previously explained we receive various reports on how our NuGet packages don’t play nicely with NuGet’s package restore feature. In this blog post I’ll talk about an update we shipped to our infrastructure package Microsoft.Bcl.Build that reduces the impact. The Issue To recap, some of our packages need to participate in ...

Announcing TraceEvent – Monitoring and Diagnostics for the Cloud

August 15, 2013 Aug 15, 2013 08/15/13
Immo Landwerth
In this post, Vance Morrison, software developer on the .NET Runtime team, will talk about the TraceEvent NuGet library we just shipped. -- Immo I am happy to report that we have just released the TraceEvent library on (prelease) NuGet. This library is an important part of the .NET, end-to-end, cloud scale diagnostics and monitoring story. It...

Announcing the EventSource NuGet Package – Write to the Windows Event Log

August 9, 2013 Aug 9, 2013 08/9/13
.NET Team
We are announcing the EventSource NuGet package, which enables fast app tracing to the Windows Event Log, including in production. This post was written by Cosmin Radu, a software developer on the .NET Runtime team We know that you want to build high-quality software. That can be a challenging task if your desktop or web app interacts ...

Building apps with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview in Visual Studio 2012

August 8, 2013 Aug 8, 2013 08/8/13
.NET Team
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This post describes how to add targeting support for the .NET Framework 4.5.1 in Visual Studio 2012. It was written by Rich Lander, who worked on the original multi-targeting support in Visual Studio 2010. Here’s the question: (image) You can. Visual Studio ...

Building apps with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview in Visual Studio 2012

August 8, 2013 Aug 8, 2013 08/8/13
.NET Team
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This post describes how to add targeting support for the .NET Framework 4.5.1 in Visual Studio 2012. It was written by Rich Lander, who worked on the original multi-targeting support in Visual Studio 2010. Here’s the question: (image) You can. Visual Studio 2013 ...

Documentation updates for .NET 4.5.1

August 7, 2013 Aug 7, 2013 08/7/13
.NET Team
This post describes the changes that we’ve made to .NET Framework documentation for the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Cheryl Simmons, who works on the .NET Framework documentation team. In the recent preview release of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we changed the way we update the documentation for the .NET Framework, refreshed ...