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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot!
.NET Aspire 9.3 is the biggest release of .NET Aspire yet, with the introduction of GitHub Copilot directly into the .NET Aspire Dashboard, updates for integrat...
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.NET Core November 2019 Updates – 2.1.14, 2.2.8, and 3.0.1
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core November 2019 Update. These updates only contain non-security fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a Visual Studio user, there are MSBuild version requirements so use only the .NET Core SDK supported for each Visual Studio version. Information needed to make this choice will be seen on the download page. If you use other development environments, we recommend using the latest SDK release. Getting the Update The latest .NET Core updates are available on the .NET Core download page. This update will be included in a ...
gRPC vs HTTP APIs
ASP.NET Core 3.0 adds support for gRPC, an opinionated contract-first remote procedure call framework. This blog post compares gRPC to JSON HTTP APIs, discusses gRPC's strengths and weaknesses, and when you could use gRPC to build your apps.
Deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on NuGet.org
co-authored by Scott Bommarito At Microsoft, using the latest and secure encryption techniques is very important to us to ensure the security and privacy of our customers. TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1, released in 1999 and 2006 respectively, are known to be vulnerable to a number of attacks including POODLE and BEAST. In the past, we removed support for SSL 3 because it was also vulnerable to attacks. For those reasons, NuGet.org will be removing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1. This means that you will no longer be able to restore packages, upload packages, or browse NuGet.org using these outdated security protocols. Th...
Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3
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Today, we're announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3. .NET Core 3.1 is a small and short release focused on key improvements in Blazor and Windows desktop, the two big additions in .NET Core 3.0.. It will be a long term support (LTS) release. We are coming near the end of the 3.1 release and expect to release it in early December. You can download .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3 on Windows, macOS, and Linux. ASP.NET Core and EF Core are also releasing updates today. Visual Studio 16.4 Preview 5 and Visual Studio for Mac 8.4 Preview 2 are also releasing today. They are required updates to use .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3. V...
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3
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.NET Core 3.1 Preview 3 is now available! Check out what's new in ASP.NET Core in this release.
.NET Framework November 13, 2019, Update for .NET Framework 4.8
Today, we released an update for .NET Framework 4.8 to Microsoft Update Catalog. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following reliability improvement. CLR1 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) Known Issues in this update There are no known issues with this update, however, this update resolves a previous known issue. These updates include improvements to resolve a known issue discussed in October Preview of Quality Rollup that occurs after applying the .NET Framework 4.8 patch. To resolve the known issue issue, install update for .NET Framework 4.8 available in the December 2019 Security a...
Improvements in .NET Core 3.0 for troubleshooting and monitoring distributed apps
.NET Core 3.0 made many improvements in distributed applications manageability. Learn about exciting new features and our plans in this area.
ML.NET Model Builder Updates
ML.NET is a cross-platform, machine learning framework for .NET developers, and Model Builder is the UI tooling in Visual Studio that uses Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) to easily allow you to train and consume custom ML.NET models.
.NET Framework Repair Tool
Today, we are announcing an update to .NET Framework Repair tool. In case you are not familiar with previous releases of this tool, here is a bit of background. Occasionally, some customers will run into issues when deploying a .NET Framework release or its updates and the issue may not be fixed from within the setup itself. In such cases, the .NET Framework Repair Tool can help with detecting and fixing some of the common causes of install failures. This version (v1.4) of the repair tool supports all versions of .NET Framework from 3.5 SP1 to 4.8. The latest update adds support for .NET Framework 4.6.2, 4.7, 4...