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.NET Framework August 2020 Cumulative Update Preview
Today, we are releasing the August 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 WPF2 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Cumulative Update Preview is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Catalog You can get the update via the Windows Update or Microsoft Update Catalog. **Note**: Customers that rely on Windows Update and Windows...
View dependent packages on NuGet.org
We're excited to announce that you can now view dependent packages in the new Used By section on NuGet.org, yet another major improvement to the package evaluation experience!
Help us improve Visual Studio project tooling for .NET Core
We're currently planning our next set of investments in Visual Studio project tooling for .NET. This tooling, called a project system, sits at the heart of nearly every major action you perform when writing .NET code in Visual Studio. What is the .NET project system? The .NET project system is a set of components that power nearly everything you do in Visual Studio with .NET. It's the "plumbing" that moves data to and from Solution Explorer, designer tooling, language services and IntelliSense, the debugger, build and publish actions, configuration, and more. The .NET project system is also responsible for s...
A Deep Dive into How .NET Builds and Ships
This is a deep technical dive into the machinery and processes used by the .NET Team to build and ship .NET. It will be of interest to those who wish to know about such topics as: This post begins by laying out the multi-repository world that makes up the .NET product, its inherent challenges, and how we deal with them. This is a review of some of the information presented in The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core. Then it takes a close look at how we build, prep, and ship the product, especially around releases that include security fixes. Our Principles A Land of Many Re...
Bring the best of the Web to your .NET desktop applications with WebView2
Last year at Build, we introduced WebView2, a browser control that renders web content (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. It was originally limited in scope to C/C++ applications. Today, we are happy to announce the release of the WebView2 preview for .NET applications!
.NET Framework August 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates
Revised 6/8/2021: On June 8th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous update to address a “revocation server was offline” error that may occur during installation. If you've already installed a previous release of this update, no action is required. Revised 4/15/2021: On April 13th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous release of this some updates. See known issues section for more details. If you've already installed a previous release of an affected update, no action is required. Today, we are releasing the August 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. ...
.NET Core August 2020 Updates – 2.1.21 and 3.1.7
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core August 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Security CVE-2020-1597: ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in ASP.NET Core. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. A denial of service vulnerability exists when ASP.NET Core improperly handles web requests. An attacker who successfully exploite...
Advanced search on NuGet.org
We are excited to announce that NuGet.org now supports one of our top customer asks - advanced search! You can now use a multitude of sorting and filtering criteria to help find the best NuGet packages for your needs!
.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10, version 2004
Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 on Windows 10, version 2004. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET - Use FIPS-compliant hashes in ASP.Net telemetry data. - Addresses an issue where "Unspecified" was not an allowed value in config for the 'cookieSameSite' attribute of the forms authentication and session state configuration sections. CLR1 - A change in .NET Framework 4.8 regressed certain EnterpriseServices scenarios where an single-thread apartment object may be treated as an...