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.NET Highlights in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 4

April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18
.NET Team
As you know we continue to incrementally improve Visual Studio 2017 (version 15), and our 7th significant update is currently well under way with the 4th preview shipping today. As we’re winding down the preview, we’d like to stop and take the time to tell you about all of the great updates that are coming in Visual Studio version 15.7 for...

What Happened to Bower?

April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
Bower is a popular package management system for managing static content used by client-side web applications. Visual Studio provides rich support for Bower, including templates and package management tools. In October 2017, there were announcements on Twitter hinting that the Bower platform was being deprecated. While Bower hasn’t gone ...

Publish Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7

April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18
picru
Today we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. Our 15.7 update brings some exciting updates for publishing applications from Visual Studio that we’re excited to tell you about, including: Configure settings before publishing When publishing your ASP.NET Core applications to either a folder or Azure App Service you can ...

.NET Core April 2018 Update

April 17, 2018 Apr 17, 2018 04/17/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core April 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 1.0.11, 1.1.8 and 2.0.7. There are no new security fixes in this update. See April 2018 .NET Updates for other updates. Fixes and Commits CoreFX CoreCLR Getting the Update The .NET Core April 2018 Update is available from the .NET Core ...

Library Manager: Client-side content manager for web apps

April 17, 2018 Apr 17, 2018 04/17/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
If you’re developing a modern web app, chances are your app will reference client-side JavaScript and CSS files like jQuery or bootstrap. Maybe you copy these from a previous project, download them, or use Bower. However, with Bower announcing they won’t be offering support into the future, we thought it time to produce a lightweight, ...

Blazor 0.2.0 release now available

April 17, 2018 Apr 17, 2018 04/17/18
Daniel Roth
Just a few weeks ago we announced the first preview release of an experimental web UI framework called Blazor. Blazor enables full-stack web development using C# and WebAssembly. So far thousands of web developers have taken on the challenge to try out Blazor and done some pretty remarkable things: The feedback and support from the ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview2: Improvements to the Kestrel HTTP server

April 12, 2018 Apr 12, 2018 04/12/18
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
Change default transport to Sockets Building off the improvements to the managed sockets implementation in .NET Core we have changed the default transport in Kestrel from libuv to sockets. As a consequence, the  package is no longer part of the  metapackage. How to switch back to libuv To continue using libuv as your transport, you will...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview2 now available

April 12, 2018 Apr 12, 2018 04/12/18
Damian Edwards
Today we're very happy to announce that the second preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. This second preview includes many refinements based on feedback we received from the first preview we released back in February. You can read about .NET Core 2.1.0-preview2 over on their ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 Preview 2

April 11, 2018 Apr 11, 2018 04/11/18
Diego Vega
Today we’re releasing the second preview of EF Core 2.1, alongside .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 2. Thank you so much to everyone who has tried our early builds and has helped shape this release with their feedback and code contributions! The new preview bits are now available in NuGet as individual packages, ...

Announcing .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2

April 11, 2018 Apr 11, 2018 04/11/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2. The release is now ready for broad testing, as we get closer to a final build within the next two to three months. We'd appreciate any feedback that you have. ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 and Entity Framework 2.1 Preview 2 are also releasing today. You can download and get started with .NET...