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.NET Framework October 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update

Tara OverfieldOctober 21, 2020Oct 21, 202010/21/20

Yesterday, we are releasing the October 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. SQL WPF1 1 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Cumulative Update Preview is available via ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 5 RC2

Jeremy LiknessOctober 13, 2020Oct 13, 202010/13/20

Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 gets closer to a final release. RC2 is now available with bug fixes and a go-live license.

.NET Framework October 1, 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update for Windows 10, version 2004 and Windows Server, version 2004

Tara OverfieldOctober 1, 2020Oct 1, 202010/1/20

Today, we are releasing the September 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET CLR1 SQL WCF2 Windows Forms 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows ...

.NET Framework September 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update

Tara OverfieldSeptember 16, 2020Sep 16, 202009/16/20

The September 16, 2020 update includes cumulative reliability improvements in .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.2 and 4.8. We recommend that you apply this update as part of your regular maintenance routines.

New C# Source Generator Samples

Luca BologneseAugust 25, 2020Aug 25, 202008/25/20

This post describes two new generators that we added to the samples project in the Roslyn SDK github repo.

The first generator gives you strongly typed access to CSV data. The second one creates string constants based on Mustache specifications.

Bring the best of the Web to your .NET desktop applications with WebView2

Olia GavryshAugust 19, 2020Aug 19, 202008/19/20

Last year at Build, we introduced WebView2, a browser control that renders web content (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. It was originally limited in scope to C/C++ applications. Today, we are happy to announce the release of the WebView2 preview for .NET applications!

.NET Framework August 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

Tara OverfieldAugust 11, 2020Aug 11, 202008/11/20

Today, we are releasing the August 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security CVE-2020-1476– .NET Framework Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when ASP.NET or .NET Framework web applications running on IIS improperly allow access to cached files. An attacker who ...

.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10, version 2004

Tara OverfieldJuly 31, 2020Jul 31, 202007/31/20

Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 on Windows 10, version 2004. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET - Use FIPS-compliant hashes in ASP.Net telemetry data. - Addresses an issue where "Unspecified" was not an ...

.NET Framework July 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

Tara OverfieldJuly 14, 2020Jul 14, 202007/14/20

Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security CVE-2020-1147– .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability A remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET Framework, Microsoft SharePoint, and Visual Studio when the software fails to check the source markup of XML file ...

Performance Improvements in .NET 5

Stephen Toub - MSFTJuly 13, 2020Jul 13, 202007/13/20

Explore many performance improvements, big and small, that have gone into the .NET 5 runtime and core libraries to make apps and services leaner and faster.

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