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The week in .NET – 7/19/2016

To read the last post, see The week in .NET – 7/12/2016. On .NET Last week's show was postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date. This week, we will have Rowan Miller on the show to talk about EF Core. Package of the week: ImageResizer ImageResizer is an IIS/ASP.NET lightweight HTTPModule, REST API and managed API that is used for...

.NET Core Roadmap

This post was written by Scott Hunter. It has been about two weeks since we shipped .NET Core / ASP.NET Core 1.0. The team has used the past two weeks to take a deep breath, and is now getting started on planning what is coming next. We have seen a lot of .NET Core SDK downloads and significant feedback. Please keep the feedback coming. Here...

Visual Studio ‘15’ Preview 3 for C# and Visual Basic

One of our major focuses in Visual Studio ‘15' is improving developer productivity inside the editor. As we develop, we all perform series of actions over and over again--like writing methods, renaming variables, changing method signatures, implementing interfaces, etc. Our goal is to help automate or reduce these tasks to a single click so ...

The week in .NET – 7/12/2016

To read the last post, see The week in .NET – 6/28/2016. On .NET Last week, we had Mukul Sabharwal on the show to talk about .NET Core usage at Bing. This week, we'll have Lucas Meijer from Unity Technologies on the show. Package of the week: LinqToTwitter LINQ to Twitter is an open source library that enables querying Twitter using ...

Working through things on other OSs

We just shipped CoreCLR 1.0. That was a significant milestone for us – now we officially run on non Windows OSs and that’s very exciting. Folks who told me that they really missed using C# or wanted to use C# but couldn’t because they were not using Windows can now do so. Yay! For GC it would seem like there shouldn’t’ve been much ...

The week in .NET – 6/28/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 6/21/2016. We shipped! We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries ...

Announcing .NET Core 1.0

Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and ...

The week in .NET – 6/21/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 6/14/2016. On .NET Last week, we spoke with Pratap Lakshman about MS Test, and about running tests for .NET Core in general. This week, we'll speak with Jeremy Kuhne about long path support. Package of the week: Stuntman Testing and debugging user-specific scenarios can be cumbersome. ...

The week in .NET – 6/14/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 06/07/2016. On .NET Last week, we spoke with Daniel Egloff from QuantAlea about their very cool GPU technology that enables C# and F# code to be compiled for modern GPUs, thus unlocking massively parallel computations with performance that is out of reach of regular CPUs. This week, we speak ...

Thank you for watching dotnetConf 2016!

(image) dotnetConf 2016 is a wrap! Thank you to all who tuned in live on Channel 9, asked questions, and participated in our twitter feed. We had a lot of awesome sessions from various product teams and community experts that showed us all sorts of cool things we can build with .NET across platforms and devices. There’s never been a better...