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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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Visual Studio Tips and Tricks: Increasing your Productivity for .NET
The .NET team is constantly thinking of new ways to make developers more productive. We've been working hard over the past year to take the feedback you've sent us and turn it into tools that you want! In this post I’ll cover some of the latest productivity features available in Visual Studio 2019 Preview. Code Fixes and Refactorings Code fixes and refactorings are the code suggestions the compiler provides through the lightbulb and screwdriver icons. To trigger the Quick Actions and Refactorings menu type (Ctrl + .) or (Alt + Enter). The list below contains the code fixes and refactorings that are new in Vis...
Messaging Practices
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This post is a collection of content from David Boike from the Particular.net blog calling out some common problems and solutions for building message based distributed systems. They are relevant to anyone building apps using messaging, and anyone building a Microservice based solution should definitely be interested in the first post about slimming down events. It goes a long way towards avoiding unwanted coupling between services. Slimming down your events Anybody can write code that will work for a few weeks or months, but what happens when that code is no longer your daily focus and the cobwebs of time ...
Hey .NET! Have you tried ML.NET?
ML.NETÂ is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework made for .NET developers. Using ML.NET you can easily build custom machine learning models for scenarios like sentiment analysis, price prediction, sales forecasting, recommendation, image classification, and more. ML.NET 1.0 was released at //Build 2019, and since then the team has been working hard on adding more features and capabilities. Through the survey below, we would love to get feedback on how we can make your journey to infuse Machine Learning in your apps easier with .NET. Help shape and improve ML.NET for your needs by taking ...
.NET Framework August 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the August 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. BCL1 1 Base Class Library (BCL) Getting the Update The Preview of Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Catalog You can get the update via the Microsoft Update Catalog. For Windows 10, NET Framework 4.8 updates are available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, Microsoft Update Catalog. Updates for other versions of .NET F...
.NET Core and systemd
In preview7 a new package was added to the `Microsoft.Extensions` set of packages that enables integration with systemd. For the Windows focused, systemd allows similar functionality to Windows Services, there is a post on how to do what we discuss here for Windows Services in this post. This work was contributed by Tom Deseyn from Red Hat. In this post we will create a .NET Core app that runs as a systemd service. The integration makes systemd aware when the application has started/is stopping, and configures logs to be sent in a way that journald (the logging system of systemd) understands log priorities. Cr...
.NET Framework 4.8 is available on Windows Update, WSUS and MU Catalog
01/14/2020: This post has been updated with information about the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 for Windows Updates released on January 14, 2020 via Windows Update/WSUS/Catalog to include the servicing fixes since the .NET Framework 4.8 August 2019 Windows Update. Apart from the servicing fixes, there is no change in the .NET Framework 4.8 product from the August 13th, 2019 Windows update. Please see the FAQ section below for additional information about this refresh and the Cumulative update blogposts for details on the servicing fixes. We are happy to announce that Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 has been refreshe...
Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8
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Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8. Just like with Preview 7, we've focused on polishing .NET Core 3.0 for a final release and are not adding new features. If these final previews seem anti-climatic, that's by design. Download .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 right now on Windows, macOS and Linux. ASP.NET Core and EF Core are also releasing updates today. Details: The Microsoft .NET Site has been updated to .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 (see the .NET Core runtime version in the footer text). It's been running successfully on Preview 8 for over two weeks, on Azure WebApps (as a self-contai...
Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 8
The Preview 8 versions of the EF Core 3.0 package and the EF 6.3 package are now available for download from nuget.org. New previews of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available today. Please install these previews to validate that all the functionality required by your applications is available and works correctly. Please report any issues you find as soon as possible to either the EF Core issue tracker or the EF 6 issue tracker on GitHub. At this point, we are especially interested in hearing about any unexpected issues blocking you from upgrading to the new releases, but you are also w...
ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8
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.NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Check out the great new features and improvements in this release!