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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 ...

Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we're announcing .NET Core 2.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC 1). The .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 is now ready for broad testing and for production use. Our quality, reliability, and performance testing give us confidence that the release is ready for the first set of production users. On the metrics that we can measure, .NET Core 2.1 is a large step ...

Blazor 0.3.0 experimental release now available

May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 05/2/18
Daniel Roth
Blazor 0.3.0 is now available! This release includes important bug fixes and many new feature enhancements. New features in this release (details below): A full list of the changes in this release can be found in the Blazor 0.3.0 release notes. Get Blazor 0.3.0 To get setup with Blazor 0.3.0: To install the Blazor templates...

Announcing ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5

May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 05/2/18
Daniel Roth
Today we released ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5 on NuGet. This is a patch release that contains only bug fixes. You can find the full list of bug fixes for this release in the release notes. To update an existing project to use this preview release run the following commands from the NuGet Package Manager Console for ...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7.2

April 30, 2018 Apr 30, 2018 04/30/18
Preeti Krishna - MSFT
Today, we are happy to announce the release of the .NET Framework 4.7.2. It’s included in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. .NET Framework 4.7.2 is also available on Windows 7+ and Windows Server 2008 R2+. You can download the .NET Framework 4.7.2 The .NET Framework 4.7.2 includes improvements in several areas...

Help us plan the future of .NET!

April 20, 2018 Apr 20, 2018 04/20/18
Aditi Dugar [MSFT]
We’re currently planning our next major .NET releases and would love to hear your feedback on how you interact with .NET Framework and .NET Core today. Please fill out the survey below and help shape our next release by telling us about your biggest challenges and needs. It should only take 5 minutes to complete! Take the survey now! (image...

Performance Improvements in .NET Core 2.1

April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Back before .NET Core 2.0 shipped, I wrote a post highlighting various performance improvements in .NET Core 2.0 when compared with .NET Core 1.1 and the .NET Framework. As .NET Core 2.1 is in its final stages of being released, I thought it would be a good time to have some fun and take a tour through some of the myriad of performance ...