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A Penny Saved is a Ton of Serverless Compute Earned

May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018 05/21/18
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Scott Guthrie recently shared one of my favorite anecdotes on his Azure Red Shirt Tour. A Microsoft customer regularly invokes 1 billion (yes, that’s with a “B”) Azure Functions per day. The customer reached out to support after the first month thinking there was a bug in the billing system, only to find out that the $72 was in fact ...

.NET Framework May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup for Windows 10

May 17, 2018 May 17, 2018 05/17/18
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup for Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update) and Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update). Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Networking WPF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not ...

.NET Framework May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup

May 15, 2018 May 15, 2018 05/15/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are releasing the May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Networking WPF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS bug number provided with each improvement ...

.NET Core May 2018 Update

May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 05/8/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core May 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 2.1.200 SDK and ASP.NET Core 2.0.8. Security Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET Core and .NET native version 2.0. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their ...

.NET Framework May 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 05/8/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are releasing the May 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security CVE-2018-1039 – Windows Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Windows which could allow an attacker to bypass Device Guard. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could circumvent a User Mode Code ...

F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7

May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 05/8/18
Phillip Carter
We’re excited to share updates about changes to F# and F# tools which shipped with the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 release. Let’s dive in! Type Providers now support .NET Standard For those who aren’t familiar with Type Providers, they are a feature of F# which allow you to get IntelliSense for data. When pointed at a data source, ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-rc1 now available

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Daniel Roth
Today we’re happy to announce the first release candidate of ASP.NET Core 2.1! This release should be very close to the final stable release of ASP.NET Core 2.1 and includes primarily bug fixes and polish for the features that we shipped in earlier previews. This is a "go live" release that can be used in production with the ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 RC 1

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Diego Vega
Today, we are excited to announce that the first release candidate of EF Core 2.1 is available, alongside .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 RC 1, for broad testing, and now also for production use! Go live support EF Core 2.1 RC1 is a "go live" release, which means once you test that your application works correctly with RC1, you can ...

.NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
At Microsoft Build Live today, we are sharing a first look at our plans for .NET Core 3. The highlight of .NET Core 3 is support for Windows desktop applications, specifically Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), and UWP XAML. You will be able to run new and existing Windows desktop applications on .NET Core and enjoy all the ...