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Learn how to do Image Recognition with Cognitive Services and ASP.NET

February 5, 2018 Feb 5, 2018 02/5/18
Angelos Petropoulos
With all the talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) doing crazy things, it’s easy to be left wondering, “what are practical ways I can use this today?" It turns out there are some extremely easy ways to try this today. In this post, I’ll walk through how to detect faces, gender, ages, and hair color in photos, ...

Announcing .NET Framework 4.7.2 Early Access build 3052!

February 5, 2018 Feb 5, 2018 02/5/18
Preeti Krishna - MSFT
Today, we are happy to share the .NET Framework 4.7.2 Early Access build 3052 for your feedback. .NET Framework 4.7.2 is the next version of the .NET Framework. It is currently feature-complete and in the testing phase. We would love your help to ensure this is a high quality and compatible release. This release is feature complete and in ...

Entity Framework Core 2.1 Roadmap

February 2, 2018 Feb 2, 2018 02/2/18
Diego Vega
As mentioned in the announcement of the .NET Core 2.1 roadmap earlier today, at this point we know the overall shape of our next release and we have decided on a general schedule for it. As we approach the release of our first preview later this month, we also wanted to expand on what we have planned for Entity Framework Core 2.1. New ...

.NET Core 2.1 Roadmap

February 2, 2018 Feb 2, 2018 02/2/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
The .NET team has been working on the .NET Core 2.1 release for the last several months on GitHub. We know that many of you have been using .NET Core 2.0 since it shipped in August of last year and want to know what is coming next. The team has done enough work now that we know the overall shape of the next release. Like past releases, the ....

ASP.NET Core 2.1 roadmap

February 2, 2018 Feb 2, 2018 02/2/18
Daniel Roth
Five months ago, we shipped ASP.NET Core 2.0 as a foundational release for our high performance, cross-platform web framework for .NET and .NET Core. Since then we have been hard at work to deliver the next wave of features in ASP.NET Core 2.1. Below is an outline of the features and improvements that are planned for this release, which is ...

January 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup

January 26, 2018 Jan 26, 2018 01/26/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
We recently released the January 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET Identity SQL WCF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS bug number provided with each improvement is a unique ID ...

Azure Storage for Serverless .NET Apps in Minutes

January 25, 2018 Jan 25, 2018 01/25/18
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Azure Storage is a quick and effortless way to store data for applications that has high availability, is secure, scales and is redundant. This blog post walks through a simple application that creates a short code for a long URL to easily reference it. It uses Table Storage to map codes to URLs and a Queue to process redirect counts. ...

.NET Framework January 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Updated: January 25, 2018 Today, we are releasing the January 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. An issue with the January 2018 Monthly Rollup was found on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 if .NET Framework 4.7.1 was already installed. It has been resolved. The download links for these Windows versions have been updated in the table ...

.NET for UWP January 2018 Update

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are releasing the .NET for UWP January 2018 Update. This post includes the fix included and instructions on how to update your applications. Security CVE-2018-0786 – Security Feature Bypass in X509 Certificate Validation Microsoft is aware of a security vulnerability in the public versions of .NET Core where an attacker could ...