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.NET Framework June 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

June 13, 2018 Jun 13, 2018 06/13/18
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the June 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security No new security fixes. See .NET Framework May 2018 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Note: Additional information on these improvements...

Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3621!

June 6, 2018 Jun 6, 2018 06/6/18
Preeti Krishna - MSFT
Today, we are happy to share the .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3621 for your feedback. This is one of the in-development builds of the next version of the .NET Framework. The changes in this build have been functionally validated by the .NET teams. We would love your help to ensure this is a high quality and compatible release. This...

Announcing ML.NET 0.2

June 5, 2018 Jun 5, 2018 06/5/18
Cesar De la Torre
Last month at //Build 2018, we released ML.NET 0.1, a cross-platform, open source machine learning framework. We would like to thank the community for the engagement so far in helping us shape ML.NET. Today we are releasing ML.NET 0.2. This release focuses on adding new ML tasks like clustering, making it easier to validate models, adding a...

Use Dependency Injection In WebForms Application

June 5, 2018 Jun 5, 2018 06/5/18
Matt FJH
Dependency Injection design pattern is widely used in modern applications.  It decouples objects to the extent that no client code needs to be changed simply because an object it depends changes to a different one.  It brings you a lot of benefits, like reduced dependency, more reusable code, more testable code, etc.  in the past, it was ...

Announcing .NET Core 2.1

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
We're excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.1. It includes improvements to performance, to the runtime and tools. It also includes a new way to deploy tools as NuGet packages. We've added a new primitive type called that operates on data without allocations. There are many other new APIs, focused on cryptography, compression, and ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
Diego Vega
Today we are excited to announce the release of Entity Framework (EF) Core 2.1. This is the latest production-ready release of our open-source and cross-platform data access technology. We are releasing today alongside .NET Core 2.1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1. EF Core 2.1 targets .NET Standard 2.0 and so also runs on .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Framework...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0 now available

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
Daniel Roth
Today we're thrilled to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 2.1.0! This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform web framework for .NET and it's now ready for production use. Get started with ASP.NET Core 2.1 today! New features in this release include: Check out What's New ...