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.NET Framework August 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup

August 16, 2017 Aug 16, 2017 08/16/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
The August 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup is now available. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET CLR Management Windows Forms WCF WPF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS ...

The week in .NET – .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework Core 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston, and links!

August 15, 2017 Aug 15, 2017 08/15/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, and Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 launched! This is a week to celebrate for the .NET community, as .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, and Entity Framework 2.0 shipped! We're also getting an update to Visual Studio 2017 with lots of improvements for .NET Core developers. ...

F# and .NET Core Roadmap Update

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Phillip Carter
Now that .NET Core 2.0 has been released, we wanted to take some time to talk about F# and .NET Core. F# and .NET Core 1.0 F# has been supported on .NET Core and .NET Standard since their 1.0 releases. In the months leading up to the release of .NET Core 1.0, Enrico Sada from the F# community worked with us and other teams at Microsoft to add...

Announcing .NET Core 2.0

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
.NET Core 2.0 is available today as a final release. You can start developing with it at the command line, in your favorite text editor, in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac. It is ready for production workloads, on your own hardware or your favorite cloud, like Microsoft Azure...

Announcing .NET Standard 2.0

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Immo Landwerth
The .NET Standard 2.0 specification is now complete. It is supported in .NET Core 2.0, in the .NET Framework 4.6.1 and later versions, and in Visual Studio 15.3. You can start using .NET Standard 2.0 today. While this post demos .NET Standard in C#, it's also supported in Visual Basic and F#. For more details, take a look at the .NET ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.0

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Diego Vega
Today we are releasing the final version of Entity Framework Core 2.0, alongside .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0. Entity Framework (EF) Core is the lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework, the popular Object/Relational Mapping (O/RM) framework for .NET. Getting the bits Prerequisites In order to develop...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Jeffrey Fritz
The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm.  For a full list of updates, you can read the release notes and you can check the list of changed ...

Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance (Updated for .NET Core 2.0)

August 9, 2017 Aug 9, 2017 08/9/17
Cesar De la Torre
(image) Updated for ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Nov. 15th 2017) Earlier this year, we published this eBook/Guide and sample application offering guidance for Architecting Modern Web Applications with ASP.NET Core and Microsoft Azure. We have recently published updates to the eBook (2nd edition) and sample application to bring them in line with the ...

.NET Framework August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup

August 8, 2017 Aug 8, 2017 08/8/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Updated: 2017.08.10 Today, we are releasing the August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup Update. This update applies to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. Security There are no new security changes for the .NET Framework this month. Quality and Reliability Networking Note: The VSTS bug number listed above are provided so that you have...

The week in .NET – Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando, and links!

August 8, 2017 Aug 8, 2017 08/8/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: Tool of the week: Rezoom.SQL Rezoom.SQL is an F# ORM for SQL databases. It integrates with the F# compiler via a generative type provider to statically typecheck its own dialect of SQL. It knows how to translate this SQL dialect to various backends. Currently it supports SQLite, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. The type ...