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Announcing Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 7
Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the seventh preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes a factory to create instances, the ability to reset state, Cosmos DB improvements including enhanced support for configuration options and partition keys, and much more. In this post To summarize: EF Core 5.0 runs on platforms that support .NET Standard 2.1. The plan is to maintain .NET Standard 2.1 compatibility through the final release. How to get EF Core 5.0 previews EF Core is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider t...
Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 7
Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 7. It's the second to last of the preview releases (before moving to RC). Most features should be very close to done at this point. Single file and ARM64 intrinsics are two feature areas that are taking the longest time to complete, but are on track for Preview 8. See the .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post for a broader view of the release. ASP.NET Core and EF Core are also being released today. You can download .NET 5.0 Preview 7, for Windows, macOS, and Linux: You need to use Visual Studio 2019 16.7 to use .NET 5.0. .NET 5.0 is now supported with V...
New experimental Razor editor for Visual Studio
With the release of Visual Studio 2019 16.7 Preview 4, you can now try out our new experimental Razor editor for local development with MVC, Razor Pages, and Blazor. We're excited for you to give it a try!
.NET Framework July 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 July 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Fram...
.NET Core July 2020 Updates – 2.1.20 and 3.1.6
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core July 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Security CVE-2020-1147: .NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET Core. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. Microsoft is aware of a remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET software when the software fails to check the source markup of...
Performance Improvements in .NET 5
Explore many performance improvements, big and small, that have gone into the .NET 5 runtime and core libraries to make apps and services leaner and faster.
Orchard Core Release Candidate 2 now available
We are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core RC2 is now available. What is Orchard Core? Orchard Core Framework is a community-based application framework for building modular, multi-tenant applications on ASP.NET Core. It has been created by more than 150 contributors and has over 4K stars on GitHub. Orchard Core also includes Orchard Core CMS, a Web Content Management System (CMS), that is built on top of the Orchard Core Framework. It allows you to build full websites, or headless websites using GraphQL. Getting Started Installing the templates You can install the recommended templates by running: ...
F# 5 and F# tools update for June
We’re excited to announce more updates to F# 5 today! We shipped an initial set of features with F# 5 preview 1, and they have all been stabilizing since that release including a updates from last month. Today, we’re happy to announce some new language features, a sneak peek at using F# in VSCode notebooks, and some F# tooling updates that will align with Visual Studio 2019 Update 16.7. You can get the latest F# 5 in these ways If you’re using Visual Studio on Windows, you’ll need both the .NET 5 preview SDK and Visual Studio Preview installed. Using F# 5 preview You can use F# 5 preview via...
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 6
.NET 5 Preview 6 is now available and is ready for evaluation. Here's what's new in this release: Get started To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 5.0 Preview 6 install the .NET 5.0 SDK. You need to use Visual Studio 2019 16.7 or Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.6 to use .NET 5.0. Install the latest version of the C# extension, to use .NET 5.0 with Visual Studio Code. Upgrade an existing project To upgrade an existing ASP.NET Core 5.0 Preview 5 app to ASP.NET Core 5.0 Preview 6: See the full list of breaking changes in ASP.NET Core 5.0. That’s it! You should now be all set to use .NET 5 Previe...