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On.NET show

May 20, 2016 May 20, 2016 05/20/16

maoni

So apparently CLR has this show on YouTube called On.NET which I was not aware of till yesterday. In any case, I have been invited on the show for the next episode which is 10am-11am next Thursday (05/26). This is streaming on YouTube so you can ask questions during the air time. So if you do have questions for me, you could ask them during ...

Happy 25th Birthday, VB!

May 20, 2016 May 20, 2016 05/20/16

.NET Team

That’s right! Today marks the 25th (“Silver Anniversary”) since VB first debuted to the world. It seems like just yesterday I’d only been at Microsoft a little over a year when VB turned 20. Looking back at the progress of 5 years—a complete revamp of the IDE and debugger, a trove of new language features, and millions of lines of ...

The week in .NET – 5/16/2016

May 17, 2016 May 17, 2016 05/17/16

Bertrand Le Roy

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 5/10/2016. We shipped! Yesterday, we released ASP.NET Core RC2, .NET Core RC2, and the preview 1 of the associated SDK. We also released Entity Framework Core RC2. We also have a new .NET web site that you can reach using the simple dot.net URL. On.NET Last week on the...

Releasing F# Language Documentation as Open-Source

May 17, 2016 May 17, 2016 05/17/16

Den Delimarsky [MSFT]

Guest post by Den Delimarsky, Program Manager, Butt & Enterprise Continuing our efforts to make our documentation more flexible and open, we are releasing the F# language documentation as open-source. This means that starting today you can both easily download the most up-to-date documents for offline consumption, as well as contribute to...

Announcing Entity Framework Core RC2

May 16, 2016 May 16, 2016 05/16/16

Rowan Miller

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core RC2 available. This coincides with the release of .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2. EF Core, formerly known as EF7 Between RC1 and RC2, we changed from Entity Framework 7 to Entity Framework Core ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core RC2

May 16, 2016 May 16, 2016 05/16/16

Rowan Miller

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core RC2 available. This coincides with the release of .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2. EF Core, formerly known as EF7 Between RC1 and RC2, we changed from Entity Framework 7 to Entity Framework Core ...

Announcing .NET Core RC2 and .NET Core SDK Preview 1

May 16, 2016 May 16, 2016 05/16/16

Rich Lander [MSFT]

Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is not supported. Today, we are announcing the release of .NET Core RC2. You can use it to build ASP.NET Core, console apps and class libraries for Windows, OS X and Linux. RC2 is a major update from the November RC1 release, including new APIs, performance ...

Announcing .NET Core RC2 and .NET Core SDK Preview 1

May 16, 2016 May 16, 2016 05/16/16

Rich Lander [MSFT]

Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is not supported. Today, we are announcing the release of .NET Core RC2. You can use it to build ASP.NET Core, console apps and class libraries for Windows, OS X and Linux. RC2 is a major update from the November RC1 release, including new APIs, performance ...

Announcing ASP.NET Core RC2

May 16, 2016 May 16, 2016 05/16/16

Jeffrey Fritz

Edit:  ASP.NET Core RC2 is now available for use with Azure Web Applications We are very pleased to announce the availability of ASP.NET Core RC2.  This release succeeds the ASP.NET 5 RC1 release and features a number of updates to enhance compatibility with other .NET frameworks and an improved runtime.  You can install the RC2 from http...

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – May 10, 2016

May 11, 2016 May 11, 2016 05/11/16

Jeffrey Fritz

This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes...