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.NET Framework October 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates
Revised 6/8/2021: On June 8th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous update to address a “revocation server was offline” error that may occur during installation. If you've already installed a previous release of this update, no action is required. Revised 4/15/2021: On April 13th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous release of this some updates. See known issues section for more details. If you've already installed a previous release of an affected update, no action is required. Revised 1/15/2021: Added known issues details for ASP.Net applications may not deliver cookieless...
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Release Candidate 2
.NET 5 Release Candidate 2 is now available! Check out all the improvements in ASP.NET Core in this update.
.NET Core October 2020 Updates – 2.1.23 and 3.1.9
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core October 2020 Update. These updates contains reliability and other non-security fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Getting the Update See the .NET Core release notes for details on the release, including issues fixed and affected packages. The latest .NET Core updates are available on the .NET Core download page. Lifecycle Updates Ubuntu 20.10 and Fedora 33 have been added as a supported OS with this update of .NET Core. Docker Images .NET Docker images have been updated for today’s release. The ...
Announcing Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 5 RC2
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.
Announcing .NET 5.0 RC 2
Today, we are shipping .NET 5.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2). It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the last of two RCs before the official release in November. RC2 is a "go live" release; you are supported using it in production. At this point, we're looking for reports of any remaining critical bugs that should be fixed before the final release. We also released new versions of ASP.NET Core and EF Core today. You can download .NET 5.0, for Windows, macOS, and Linux: You need the latest preview version of Visual Studio (including Visual Studio for Mac) to use .NET 5.0. .N...
MLOps: DevOps for Machine Learning
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) is like DevOps for the machine learning lifecycle. This includes things like model deployment & management and data tracking, which help with productionizing machine learning models. Through the survey below, we'd love to get feedback on your current DevOps practices as well as your prospective usage of MLOps in .NET. We'll use your feedback to drive the direction of MLOps support in .NET. Take the survey
Game Development with .NET
Did you want to develop games using .NET? Learn what .NET game engines, tools, and services are available for you when developing games.
.NET Framework October 1, 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update for Windows 10, version 2004 and Windows Server, version 2004
Revised 1/15/2021: Added known issues details for ASP.Net applications may not deliver cookieless tokens in the URI 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 Communication Foundation (WCF) Known issues in this security update ASP.Net applications fail during precompilation with error message Symptoms ...
.NET Interactive Preview 3: VS Code Insiders and .NET Polyglot Notebooks
With .NET Interactive Preview 3, we've added a VS Code Insiders experience and a number of new features to our existing .NET notebooks support for Jupyter.