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Async ValueTask Pooling in .NET 5

Stephen Toub - MSFTMarch 16, 2020Mar 16, 202003/16/20

The async/await feature in C# has revolutionized how developers targeting .NET write asynchronous code. Sprinkle some async and await around, change some return types to be tasks, and badda bing badda boom, you've got an asynchronous implementation. In theory. In practice, obviously I've exaggerated the ease with which a codebase can be made

Continuous integration and deployment for desktop apps with GitHub Actions

Edward SkrodMarch 12, 2020Mar 12, 202003/12/20

From speaking to desktop developers, we’ve heard that you want to learn how to quickly set up continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows for your WPF and Windows Forms applications in order to take advantage of the many benefits CI/CD pipelines have to offer, such as: That's why we created a sample applicatio

Announcing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool 1.0!

Sarah OslundMarch 10, 2020Mar 10, 202003/10/20

Today we are releasing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool for Windows and Mac! Starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3, Visual Studio manages the versions of the SDK and runtime it installs. In previous versions, SDKs and runtimes were left on upgrade in case those versions were targeted or pinned with global.json. We realized this was not idea

An Introduction to DataFrame

Prashanth GovindarajanDecember 16, 2019Dec 16, 201912/16/19

Last month, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks, and showed how to use them to work with .NET for Apache Spark and ML.NET. Today, we're announcing the preview of a DataFrame type for .NET to make data exploration easy. If you've used Python to manipulate data in notebooks, you'll already be familiar with the concept of a DataFrame.

ConfigureAwait FAQ

Stephen Toub - MSFTDecember 11, 2019Dec 11, 201912/11/19

.NET added async/await to the languages and libraries over seven years ago. In that time, it's caught on like wildfire, not only across the .NET ecosystem, but also being replicated in a myriad of other languages and frameworks. It's also seen a ton of improvements in .NET, in terms of additional language constructs that utilize asynchrony, AP

An Introduction to System.Threading.Channels

Stephen Toub - MSFTDecember 11, 2019Dec 11, 201912/11/19

"Producer/consumer" problems are everywhere, in all facets of our lives. A line cook at a fast food restaurant, slicing tomatoes that are handed off to another cook to assemble a burger, which is handed off to a register worker to fulfill your order, which you happily gobble down. Postal drivers delivering mail all along their routes, and you

GC Perf Infrastructure – Part 1

maoniDecember 9, 2019Dec 9, 201912/9/19

We open sourced our new GC Perf Infrastructure! It’s now part of the dotnet performance repo. I’ve been meaning to write about it ‘cause some curious minds had been asking when they could use it after I blogged about it last time but didn’t get around to it till now. First of all, let me point out that the target audience of this infr

.NET Core 2.2 will reach End of Life on December 23, 2019

Lee CowardDecember 5, 2019Dec 5, 201912/5/19

.NET Core 2.2 was released on December 4, 2018. As a non-LTS ("Current") release, it is supported for three months after the next release. .NET Core 3.0 was released on September 23, 2019. As a result, .NET Core 2.2 is supported until December 23, 2019. After that time, .NET Core patch updates will no longer include updated packages of contai

.NET Core November 2019 Updates – 2.1.14, 2.2.8, and 3.0.1

Jamshed DamkewalaNovember 19, 2019Nov 19, 201911/19/19

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core November 2019 Update. These updates only contain non-security fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a Visual Studio user, there are MSBuild version requirements so use only the .NET Core SDK supported for each Visual Studio version. Information needed to

Building Modern Cloud Applications using Pulumi and .NET Core

.NET TeamNovember 11, 2019Nov 11, 201911/11/19

This is a guest post from the Pulumi team. Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code tool that helps developers and infrastructure teams work better together to create, deploy, and manage cloud applications using their favorite languages. For more information, see https://pulumi.com/dotnet. We are excited to announce .NET Core support f

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