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Visual Basic WinForms Apps in .NET 5 and Visual Studio 16.8
Visual Studio 16.8 and .NET 5.0 for the first time fully support Windows Forms Designer and the VB Application Framework.
Announcing General Availability for Microsoft Edge WebView2 for .NET and Fixed Distribution Method
Today, we are excited to announce that Microsoft Edge WebView2 is now generally available for use in production .NET 5, .NET Core, and .NET Framework Windows Forms and WPF applications on existing Windows versions! Additionally, we are thrilled to announce that WebView2’s Fixed Version Distribution mode is also generally available for production applications. Previously, at Build, we introduced the .NET preview of WebView2, Microsoft’s latest browser control built on the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge that renders web content (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) in .NET applications. In October, we announced that WebV...
.NET Framework November 2020 Cumulative Update Preview
Today, we are releasing the November 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR WPF2 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Cumulative Update Preview is available via Windows Update 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 Windows Update and Microsoft Update Catalog. **Note**: Customers that r...
What’s new in .NET Productivity
Learn about the latest .NET Productivity features!
Getting Started With NuGet 5.8
NuGet 5.8 is one of many releases in our .NET unification journey. Our NuGet tooling helps developers discover new .NET packages to use for their .NET applications, while making package management easier during your daily development.
.NET Framework November 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates
Revised 1/15/2021: On Jan 12, 2020, a live revision was made to these updates to remove its supersedence relationship with the October 13, 2020, .NET Framework security updates. If you have already installed this update, the October 13 .NET Framework updates, or any later .NET Framework updates, you do not have to take any action to be up-to-date for the latest .NET Framework security updates. See the “Update replacement information” section in this article for more information for WSUS administrators. WSUS administrators who cannot install the October Security and Quality Rollup and have to reinstate the Oct...
C# 9.0 on the record
C# 9.0 on the record It's official: C# 9.0 is out! Back in May I blogged about the C# 9.0 plans, and the following is an updated version of that post to match what we actually ended up shipping. With every new version of C# we strive for greater clarity and simplicity in common coding scenarios, and C# 9.0 is no exception. One particular focus this time is supporting terse and immutable representation of data shapes. Init-only properties Object initializers are pretty awesome. They give the client of a type a very flexible and readable format for creating an object, and they are especially great for nested ...
Announcing F# 5
F# 5 is the latest version of F#, the functional programming language for .NET. F# 5 is focused on making interactive and analytical programming a joy by revamping F# Interactive and adding support for Jupyter Notebooks and VSCode Notebooks. It also includes some highly-requested language features like string interpolations and nameof.
Announcing .NET 5.0
.NET 5.0 includes many enhancements, including single file applications, more capable JSON APIs, new versions of C