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Announcing Entity Framework Core EFCore 5.0 Preview 6
Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the sixth preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes split queries for related collections, a new "index" attribute, improved exceptions related to query translations, IP address mapping, exposing transaction id for correlation, and much more. Prerequisites EF Core 5.0 will not run on .NET Standard 2.0 platforms, including .NET Framework. The previews of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1. This means that EF Core 5.0 will run on .NET Core 3.1 and does not require .NET 5. To summarize: EF Core 5.0 runs on platforms that support .NET Standard 2.1. ...
Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 6
Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 6. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but some are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be feature-complete with Preview 8. You can download .NET 5.0 Preview 6, for Windows, macOS, and Linux: ASP.NET Core and EF Core are also being released today. Note: EF Core 5.0 will not support .NET Standard 2.0 or .NET Framework. Read the EF Core post to learn more. You need ...
Introducing dotnet-monitor, an experimental tool
is an experimental tool that makes it easier to get access to diagnostics information in a dotnet process. When running a dotnet application differences in diverse local and production environments can make collecting diagnostics artifacts (e.g., logs, traces, process dumps) challenging. aims to simplify the process by exposing a consistent REST API regardless of where your application is run. This blog post details how to get started with and covers the following: Tour of dotnet-monitor Setup will be made available via two different distribution mechanism: The setup ins...
gRPC-Web for .NET now available
gRPC-Web for .NET is now officially released. Use gRPC in the browser with gRPC-Web and .NET today.
Introducing “Web Live Preview”
If you work on any type of app that has a user interface (UI) you probably have experienced that inner-loop development cycle of making a change, compile and run the app, see the change wasn’t what you wanted, stop debugging, then re-run the cycle again. Depending on the frameworks or technology you use, there are options to improve this experience such as edit-and-continue, Xamarin Hot Reload, and design-time editors. Of course, nothing will show the UI of your app like…well, your app! For ASP.NET WebForms we have had designers for a while allowing you to switch from your WebForms code view to the Design view...
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 5
.NET 5 Preview 5 is now available and is ready for evaluation! .NET 5 will be a current release. Get started To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 5.0 Preview5 install the .NET 5.0 SDK. If you're on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing Visual Studio 2019 16.6. If you're on macOS, we recommend installing the latest preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.7. Upgrade an existing project To upgrade an existing ASP.NET Core 5.0 preview4 app to ASP.NET Core 5.0 preview5: 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 Preview ...
Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5
Announcing the release of Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5 featuring database collations, flowing arguments to IDesignTimeDbContextFactory, no tracking queries with identity resolution, stored (persisted) columns and SQLite computed columns.
Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 5
Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 5. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but many are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be very close to feature-complete by Preview 7. You can download .NET 5.0 Preview 5, for Windows, macOS, and Linux: ASP.NET Core and EF Core are also being released today. You need to use Visual Studio 2019 16.7 to use .NET 5.0. Install the latest version of the C# extension, t...
.NET Core June 2020 Updates – 2.1.19 and 3.1.5
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core June 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Security CVE-2020-1108: .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability To comprehensively address CVE-2020-1108, Microsoft has released updates for .NET Core 2.1 and .NET Core 3.1. Customers who use any of these versions of .NET Core should install the latest version of .NET Core. See the Release Notes for the latest version numbers and instructions for updating .NET Core. Microsoft is aware of a denial of service vulnerability whi...