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Announcing .NET 10
Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14...
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Configuring Azure Services and emulators using Visual Studio
Starting with Visual Studio 16.6 Preview 2 the Connected Services tab offers a new experience called Service Dependencies. You can use it to connect your app to Azure services such as Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault and many others. Wherever possible local emulation options are also available and more are planned for the future. Add a new Service Dependency You can easily and quickly get the right NuGet packages, start-up code and configuration added to your project for every supported Azure service. You simply click add, pick the service from the list and follow the 2-3 steps in the wizard. Here is an ex...
Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Release Candidate now available
The Blazor WebAssembly Release Candidate is here! This release contains all of the features and improvements that we expect to release for the upcoming Blazor WebAssembly release. There are no more breaking changes planned at this point. Please give the Blazor WebAssembly Release Candidate a try and let us know what you think!
Introducing C# Source Generators
We're pleased to introduce the first preview of Source Generators, a new C# compiler feature that lets C# developers inspect user code and generate new C# source files that can be added to a compilation. This is done via a new kind of component that we're calling a Source Generator. To get started with Source Generators, you'll need to install the latest .NET 5 preview and the latest Visual Studio preview. Note: to build a source generator, you currently require Visual Studio. This will change in the next .NET 5 preview. What is a Source Generator? Unless you've been closely following every prototype and pro...
Work flow of diagnosing memory performance issues – Part 2
Work flow of diagnosing memory performance issues – Part 0 Work flow of diagnosing memory performance issues – Part 1 Work flow of diagnosing memory performance issues – Part 2 (this post) In this blog post I’ll talk a bit about how to spend time wisely and then continue with the analysis. Originally I was going to delve deeper into the GCStats view but I actually just debugged a long suspension issue that I wanted to share 'cause it shows some general ideas of what to do when you hit problems during an analysis. You can skip to the analysis part directly if you like.PerfView isn’t just to collect...
Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 5 release now available
Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 5 is now available! Check out all the updates and improvements in this release.
Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 3
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Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 3. It contains a set of new features and performance improvements. We're continuing to work on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release. The .NET 5.0 Preview 1 post covers what we are planning on building for .NET 5.0. Please take a look at the post and the dotnet/designs repository and share any feedback you have. And, of course, please install Preview 3, and test your workloads with it. You can download .NET 5.0 Preview 3, for Windows, macOS, and Linux: ASP.NET Core and EF Core are also being released today. You need to use Visual Studio...
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 3
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.NET 5 Preview3 is now available and is ready for evaluation! .NET 5 will be a current release. Get started To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 5.0 Preview3 install the .NET 5.0 SDK. If you're on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing the latest preview of Visual Studio 2019 16.6. If you're on macOS, we recommend installing the latest preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.6. Upgrade an existing project To upgrade an existing ASP.NET Core 5.0 preview2 app to ASP.NET Core 5.0 preview3: See the full list of breaking changes in ASP.NET Core 5.0. That’s it! You should...
Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 3
Today we are excited to announce the third preview release of EF Core 5.0. The third previews of .NET 5 and ASP.NET Core 5.0 are also available now. Prerequisites The previews of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1. This means: How to get EF Core 5.0 previews EF Core is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can use the following command using the dotnet tool: The EF Core packages published today are: We have also published the 5.0 previe...
NuGet.org will continue to support TLS 1.0 and 1.1 until further notice
Last November, we shared our two-stage plan for deprecating TLS 1.0/1.1 on NuGet.org and actions you can take today to ensure your systems use TLS 1.2. In that post, we announced that NuGet.org would remove support for TLS 1.0/1.1 in April 2020. However, since then, our customers have faced a variety of challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to avoid any further disruptions to our customer's workflows, we have postponed the removal of TLS 1.0/1.1 support until further notice. For enhanced security, we still recommend ensuring your systems use TLS 1.2. We will announce a revised date for perman...