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.NET Aspire 9.3 is the biggest release of .NET Aspire yet, with the introduction of GitHub Copilot directly into the .NET Aspire Dashboard, updates for integrat...
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Provisional Mode
A coworker asked me what this “PMFullGC” trigger reason he’s seeing in GCStats means. I thought it’d be useful to share the info here.PM stands for Provisional Mode which means after a GC starts, it can change its mind about the kind of GC it’s doing. But what does that mean exactly? So normally when we start a GC, the first things we do are-And after that the collection work will start and go with the decision we made. When provisional mode is on, while we are already in the middle of a GC, we can say “hmm, it looks like collecting this generation was not a good idea, let’s go with a different generation instead...
ASP.NET Core Apps Observability
Based on interactions with customers using .NET Core in different environments, this article explores options for adding observability to .NET Core apps. Looking specifically into OpenTelemetry and Application Insights SDKs to add observability to a sample distributed application.
.NET Framework February 2020 Preview of Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the February 2020 Preview of Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 WCF2 Workflow Winforms 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Getting the Update The Preview of Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Catalog You can get the update via the Microsoft Update Catalog. For Windows 10, NET Framework 4.8 updates are available via Window...
.NET Core February 2020 Updates – 2.1.16, 3.0.3, and 3.1.2
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core February 2020 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 make this choice will be seen on the download page. If you use other development environments, we recommend using the latest SDK release. Getting the Update The latest .NET Core updates are available on the .NET Core download page. This update will be included in a ...
Deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on NuGet.org – Stage 1
In this post, we will go into more details and a specific timeline for Stage 1 i.e. temporarily removing support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on NuGet.org. The goal is to help you identify systems that may be affected and will give you an opportunity to take action before we permanently remove support for TLS 1.0/1.1 in April 2020.
.NET Framework February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security The February Security and Quality Rollup Update does not contain any new security fixes. See January 2020 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. Some improvements included in the Security and Quality Rollup and were previously released in the Security and Quality Rollup that was dated January 23, 2020. Acquistion & Deployment CLR1 Net Libraries SQL WCF2 ...
Using .NET for Apache® Spark™ to Analyze Log Data
.NET for Apache Spark makes Apache® Spark™, and thus the exciting world of big data analytics, accessible to .NET developers. .NET for Spark can be used for processing batches of data, real-time streams, machine learning, and ad-hoc query. In this post, we explore how to use .NET for Spark to perform log analysis.
Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings February update
Update of Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings with new controls, iOS startup fix, easier native animations, and more!
Garbage Collection at Food Courts
When I first started working on the GC, my predecessor was explaining the GC tuning to me. I told him that I thought it sounded like how I saw janitors work at food courts (I frequented food courts at the time 😀). And he concurred. What I said was if you observe at a food court, in order to be productive, the janitor tries to collect a sizable amount of dirty dishes when they come out to collect, which means they collect more often when it's busy to not risk running out of clean dishes, and less often when it’s not busy because there are very few dishes to be collected. This is the same way that the GC tunes. Th...