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ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2
.NET Core 3.1 Preview 2 is now available! Check out what's new in ASP.NET Core in this release.
Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2
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Today, we're announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2. .NET Core 3.1 will be a small and short release focused on key improvements in Blazor and Windows desktop, the two big additions in .NET Core 3.0.. It will be a long term support (LTS) release with an expected final ship date of December 2019. You can download .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2 on Windows, macOS, and Linux. ASP.NET Core and EF Core are also releasing updates today. Visual Studio 16.4 Preview 3 and Visual Studio for Mac 8.4 Preview 3 are also releasing today. They are required updates to use .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2. Visual Studio 16.4 includes .NET Cor...
The history of the GC configs
Recently, Nick from Stack Overflow tweeted about his experience of using the .NET Core GC configs – he seemed quite happy with them (minus the fact they are not documented well which is something I’m talking to our doc folks about). I thought it’d be fun to tell you about the history of the GC configs ‘cause it’s almost the weekend and I want to contribute to your fun weekend reading. I started working on the GC toward the end of .NET 2.0. At that time we had really, really few public GC configs. “Public” in this context means “officially supported”. I’m talking just gcServer and gcConcurrent, which you could sp...
Continuously deploy and monitor your UWP, WPF, and Windows Forms app with App Center
App Center is an integrated developer solution with the mission of helping developers build better apps. Last week, we announced General Availability support of distribute, analytics and diagnostics service for WPF and Windows Forms desktop applications. We also expanded our existing UWP offerings to include crash and error reporting for sideloaded UWP apps. In this blog, we’ll highlight how App Center can help you continuously ship higher quality apps. Get started in minutes by creating an App Center account. Managing your releases App Center Distribute makes releasing apps quick and simple so you can ship mo...
Introducing Orleans 3.0
This is a guest post from the Orleans team. Orleans is a cross-platform framework for building distributed applications with .NET. For more information, see https://github.com/dotnet/orleans. We are excited to announce the Orleans 3.0 release. A great number of improvements and fixes went in, as well as several new features, since Orleans 2.0. These changes were driven by the experience of many people running Orleans-based applications in production in a wide range of scenarios and environments, and by the ingenuity and passion of the global Orleans community that always strives to make the codebase better, fast...
.NET Framework October 2019 Cumulative Updates Windows 10 version 1903 and Windows 10 version 1909
Today, we are releasing the October 2019 Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 on Windows 10 version 1903 and Windows 10 version 1909 Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET CLR1 Windows Forms WPF2 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Cumulative Update is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Catalog You can get the update via the Microsoft Update Catalog. For Windows 10, NE...
Upcoming SameSite Cookie Changes in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core
SameSite is a 2016 extension to HTTP cookies intended to mitigate cross site request forgery (CSRF). The original design was an opt-in feature which could be used by adding a new SameSite property to cookies. It had two values, Lax and Strict. Setting the value to Lax indicated the cookie should be sent on navigation within the same site, or through GET navigation to your site from other sites. A value of Strict limited the cookie to requests which only originated from the same site. Not setting the property at all placed no restrictions on how the cookie flowed in requests. OpenIdConnect authentication operation...
Fall .NET Core Survey
It’s been a busy time for .NET Core – we just shipped 3.0, and are currently working on a few updates for v3.1 (due in November.) As we turn our attention to .NET Core 5.0, we want to take a step back and see what you are doing with .NET Core and how we can make it even better. We have put together a quick survey that will help us understand our customer base a bit better, how you are using .NET core, and what we can do to improve it. So please head over to Survey Monkey and help shape the future of .NET Core. Surveys help give us a breadth view of .NET Core users, but we also want to understand in more depth w...
.NET Framework October 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the October 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup and Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET CLR1 Windows Forms WPF2 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Known Issues in this update Symptoms After applying this October 15th Preview of Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 4.8, some ClickOnce applications and applications creating the default AppDomain with a restricted permission set may observe application launch or application...