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.NET Framework February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security The February Security and Quality Rollup Update does not contain any new security fixes. See January 2020 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. Some improvements included in the Security and Quality Rollup and were previously released in the Security and Quality Rollup that was dated January 23, 2020. Acquistion & Deployment CLR1 Net Libraries SQL WCF2 ...
Using .NET for Apache® Spark™ to Analyze Log Data
.NET for Apache Spark makes Apache® Spark™, and thus the exciting world of big data analytics, accessible to .NET developers. .NET for Spark can be used for processing batches of data, real-time streams, machine learning, and ad-hoc query. In this post, we explore how to use .NET for Spark to perform log analysis.
Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings February update
Update of Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings with new controls, iOS startup fix, easier native animations, and more!
Garbage Collection at Food Courts
When I first started working on the GC, my predecessor was explaining the GC tuning to me. I told him that I thought it sounded like how I saw janitors work at food courts (I frequented food courts at the time 😀). And he concurred. What I said was if you observe at a food court, in order to be productive, the janitor tries to collect a sizable amount of dirty dishes when they come out to collect, which means they collect more often when it's busy to not risk running out of clean dishes, and less often when it’s not busy because there are very few dishes to be collected. This is the same way that the GC tunes. Th...
.NET Interactive is here! | .NET Notebooks Preview 2
In November 2019, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks with both C# and F# support. Today we are excited to announce Preview 2 of the .NET Notebook experience. Preview 2 includes C#, F#, and PowerShell support.
GC Handles
A customer asked me about analyzing perf related to GC handles. I feel like aside from pinned handles in general handles are not talked about much so this topic warrants some explanation, especially since this is a user facing feature. For some background info, GC handles are indeed generational so when we are doing ephemeral GCs we only need to scan handles in the generations we are collecting. However there are complications associated with handles’ ages because of the way handles are organized – we don’t organize by individual handles, we organize them in groups and each group needs to have the same age so if...
Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 1 release now available
Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 1 is now available! Check out all the updates and improvements in this release.
A new experiment: Call .NET gRPC services from the browser with gRPC-Web
Build web apps using gRPC-Web and .NET Core! Check out this new experiment for gRPC-Web on .NET Core.
.NET Framework January Preview of Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the January 2020 Preview of Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. Acquistion & Deployment CLR1 Net Libraries SQL Winforms WCF2 WPF3 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 3 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 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 ...