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The week in .NET – Command Line Parser Library, .NET South East

July 18, 2017 Jul 18, 2017 07/18/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: Package of the week: Command Line Parser Library Command-line applications typically accept arguments and options, and expose a page describing them. Parsing those arguments and options is a repetitive task that .NET provides little help for out of the box, beyond the argument to . Giacomo Stelluti Scala's Command Line ...

.NET Framework July 2017 Security and Quality Rollup

July 11, 2017 Jul 11, 2017 07/11/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are releasing a new Security and Quality Rollup and Security Only Update for the .NET Framework. Today's update applies to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. Security Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2017-8585 A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Common Object Runtime Library improperly handles ...

The week in .NET – Links!

July 11, 2017 Jul 11, 2017 07/11/17
Bertrand Le Roy
This week's post will exceptionally be made of links only, as I'm on vacation...Previous posts:.NETASP.NETC#F#There is more content available this week in F# Weekly. If you want to see more F# awesomeness, please check it out!XamarinAzureUWPDataAnd this is it for this week!Contribute to the week in .NETAs always, this weekly post couldn't ...

The week in .NET – Links!

July 4, 2017 Jul 4, 2017 07/4/17
Bertrand Le Roy
This week's post will exceptionally be made of links only, as I'm on vacation...Previous posts:.NETASP.NETC#F#There is more content available this week in F# Weekly. If you want to see more F# awesomeness, please check it out!XamarinAzureUWPDataAnd this is it for this week!Contribute to the week in .NETAs always, this weekly post couldn't ...

Performance Improvements in RyuJIT in .NET Core and .NET Framework

June 29, 2017 Jun 29, 2017 06/29/17
Joseph Tremoulet [MSFT]
RyuJIT is the just-in-time compiler used by .NET Core on x64 and now x86 and by the .NET Framework on x64 to compile MSIL bytecode to native machine code when a managed assembly executes. I'd like to point out some of the past year's improvements that have gone into RyuJIT, and how they make the generated code faster. What follows is by no...

WCF Web Service Reference Provider – Metadata Exchange Endpoint Authentication

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Miguell - MSFT
With the recent update to the WCF Service Reference tool in the VS Marketplace, support has been added for downloading metadata for a web service where the metadata exchange (MEX) endpoint has been secured with IIS authentication. The purpose of MEX endpoints is to allow clients to discover the service capabilities, including security aspects...

Announcing EF Core 2.0 Preview 2

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Diego Vega
Today we are making Entity Framework Core 2.0 Preview 2 available. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. EF Core follows the same release cycle as .NET Core but can be used in multiple .NET platforms, including .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Framework 4.6.1 or newer. Installing ...

Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2. We have made improvements that we want to share and that we would love to get your feedback on. You can develop .NET Core 2.0 apps with Visual Studio 2017 Preview 15.3, Visual Studio for Mac or VS Code. ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 is also releasing today and takes advantage of the ...

Introducing ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 2

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Jeffrey Fritz
At Build 2017, we released an initial preview version of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  Over the last two months we have incorporated your feedback and added a number of new features.  We now have a Preview 2 version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework and Visual Studio tools for you to try.  In this post, we will review some of the new features in this ...