This is a guest post by Mike Rousos
I recently had an opportunity to help a developer with an ASP.NET Core app that was functionally correct but slow when under a heavy user load. We found a few different factors contributing to the app's slowdown while investigating, but the majority of the issues were some variation of blocking threads that...
Provider pattern was introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 and it gives the developers the flexibility of where to store the state of ASP.NET features (e.g. Session State, Membership, Output Cache etc.). In ASP.NET 4.6.2, we added async support for Session State Provider and Output Cache Provider. These providers provide much better scalability, and ...
Today, we are releasing the May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup for Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update).
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Today at //Build 2018, we are excited to announce the preview of ML.NET, a cross-platform, open source machine learning framework. ML.NET will allow .NET developers to develop their own models and infuse custom ML into their applications without prior expertise in developing or tuning machine learning models.
ML.NET was originally ...