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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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Building Modern Cloud Applications using Pulumi and .NET Core
This is a guest post from the Pulumi team. Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code tool that helps developers and infrastructure teams work better together to create, deploy, and manage cloud applications using their favorite languages. For more information, see https://pulumi.com/dotnet. We are excited to announce .NET Core support for Pulumi! This announcement means you can declare cloud infrastructure — including all of Azure, such as Kubernetes, Functions, AppService, Virtual Machines, CosmosDB, and more — using your favorite .NET language, including C#, VB.NET, and F#. This brings the entire cloud t...
Announcing ML.NET 1.4 general availability (Machine Learning for .NET)
Coinciding with the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference, we are thrilled to announce the GA release of ML.NET 1.4 and updates to Model Builder in Visual Studio, with exciting new machine learning features that will allow you to innovate your .NET applications. ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET developers. ML.NET also includes Model Builder (easy to use UI tool in Visual Studio) and CLI (Command-Line Interface) to make it super easy to build custom Machine Learning (ML) models using Automated Machine Learning (AutoML). Using ML.NET, developers can leverage their existin...
.NET Core with Jupyter Notebooks – Available today | Preview 1
You can now write .NET Code in Jupyter Notebooks. Try .NET has grown to support more interactive experiences across the web with runnable code snippets, interactive documentation generator for .NET core with dotnet try global tool, and now .NET in Jupyter Notebooks. And you can get started with it today!
.NET Core 3 for Windows Desktop
Intro In September, we released .NET Core support for building Windows desktop applications, including WPF and Windows Forms. Since then, we have been delighted to see so many developers share their stories of migrating desktop applications (and controls libraries) to .NET Core. We constantly hear stories of .NET Windows desktop developers powering their business with WPF and Windows Forms, especially in scenarios where the desktop shines, including: This is just the beginning for Windows application development on .NET Core. Read on to learn more about the benefits of .NET Core for building Windows appl...
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2
.NET Core 3.1 Preview 2 is now available! Check out what's new in ASP.NET Core in this release.
Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2
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Today, we're announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2. .NET Core 3.1 will be 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 with an expected final ship date of December 2019. You can download .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2 on Windows, macOS, and Linux. ASP.NET Core and EF Core are also releasing updates today. Visual Studio 16.4 Preview 3 and Visual Studio for Mac 8.4 Preview 3 are also releasing today. They are required updates to use .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2. Visual Studio 16.4 includes .NET Cor...
The history of the GC configs
Recently, Nick from Stack Overflow tweeted about his experience of using the .NET Core GC configs – he seemed quite happy with them (minus the fact they are not documented well which is something I’m talking to our doc folks about). I thought it’d be fun to tell you about the history of the GC configs ‘cause it’s almost the weekend and I want to contribute to your fun weekend reading. I started working on the GC toward the end of .NET 2.0. At that time we had really, really few public GC configs. “Public” in this context means “officially supported”. I’m talking just gcServer and gcConcurrent, which you could sp...
Continuously deploy and monitor your UWP, WPF, and Windows Forms app with App Center
App Center is an integrated developer solution with the mission of helping developers build better apps. Last week, we announced General Availability support of distribute, analytics and diagnostics service for WPF and Windows Forms desktop applications. We also expanded our existing UWP offerings to include crash and error reporting for sideloaded UWP apps. In this blog, we’ll highlight how App Center can help you continuously ship higher quality apps. Get started in minutes by creating an App Center account. Managing your releases App Center Distribute makes releasing apps quick and simple so you can ship mo...
Introducing Orleans 3.0
This is a guest post from the Orleans team. Orleans is a cross-platform framework for building distributed applications with .NET. For more information, see https://github.com/dotnet/orleans. We are excited to announce the Orleans 3.0 release. A great number of improvements and fixes went in, as well as several new features, since Orleans 2.0. These changes were driven by the experience of many people running Orleans-based applications in production in a wide range of scenarios and environments, and by the ingenuity and passion of the global Orleans community that always strives to make the codebase better, fast...