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.NET Framework December 2016 Monthly Rollup is Now Available

December 13, 2016 Dec 13, 2016 12/13/16
Stacey Haffner [MSFT]
Today we are releasing a new Security and Quality Rollup and Security Only Update for the .NET Framework. This release resolves a security vulnerability and includes two new quality and reliability improvements. The Security and Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services and Microsoft Update Catalog. The ...

December 2016 Update for .NET Core 1.0

December 13, 2016 Dec 13, 2016 12/13/16
KendraHavens
Today, we are releasing a new set of reliability and quality updates for .NET Core 1.0. This month's update is our second Long Term Support (LTS) update and includes updated versions of multiple packages in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core. We recommend everyone on the 1.0.* LTS track move to this update immediately. How to ...

Updating Visual Studio 2017 RC – .NET Core Tooling improvements

December 12, 2016 Dec 12, 2016 12/12/16
.NET Team
This post was co-authored by Joe Morris, a Senior Program Manager on the .NET Team and David Carmona, a Principal Program Manager Lead on the .NET Team. Today, an update to Visual Studio 2017 RC was announced. As part of this update, we have made several enhancements and bug fixes to the .NET Core tools that are part of Visual Studio 2017. ...

The week in .NET – Cosmos on On.NET, GongSolutions.WPF.DragDrop, Transistor

November 29, 2016 Nov 29, 2016 11/29/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1 – Docker – Xenko. On .NET Last week, Chad Z. Hower, a.k.a. Kudzu was on the show to talk about Cosmos, a C# open source managed operating system: This week, we'll speak with Xavier Decoster and Maarten Balliauw about MyGet. The show is on ...

The week in .NET – .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1 – Docker – Xenko

November 22, 2016 Nov 22, 2016 11/22/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – Mitch Muenster – Stateless. .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1, VS for Mac Preview, VS 2017 RC, SQL Server on Linux, Tizen, Google joins .NET Foundation, and Microsoft becomes a Linux Foundation platinum member This week, at the Connect(); // 2016 event, we made a number of announcements...

Announcing .NET Core Tools MSBuild “alpha”

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Rich Lander [MSFT]
We are excited to announce the first "alpha" release of the new MSBuild-based .NET Core Tools. You can try out the new .NET Core Tools in Visual Studio 2017 RC, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code and at the commandline. The new Tools release can be used with both the .NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.1 runtimes. When we started building...

Announcing .NET Core 1.1

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.1 RTM, the first "Current" release. You can start creating .NET Core 1.1 apps, today, in Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017 RC, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio for the Mac. We used the 1.1 release to ...

The week in .NET – Mitch Muenster – Stateless

November 15, 2016 Nov 15, 2016 11/15/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – On .NET on CoreRT and .NET Native – Enums.NET – Ylands – Markdown Monster. On .NET Last week, we hosted the MVP Summit, and instead of having a big one-hour show, we did several mini-interviews with MVPs. The first one was published on Monday. Mitch Muenster spent 25 minutes with us ...

The week in .NET – On .NET on CoreRT and .NET Native – Enums.NET – Ylands – Markdown Monster

November 8, 2016 Nov 8, 2016 11/8/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – .NET Foundation – Serilog – Super Dungeon Bros. On .NET Last week, Mei-Chin Tsai and Jan Kotas were on the show: This week, we won't be streaming live, but we'll be taking advantage of the presence of many MVPs on campus for the MVP Summit to speak with as many of them as possible in ...