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ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 is now available. This iteration was brief for the team and primarily includes bug fixes and improvements to the more significant updates in Preview 4. This post summarizes the important points in this release. Please see the release notes for additional details and known issues. Get started To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 install the .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 SDK. If you're on Windows using Visual Studio, you also need to install the latest preview of Visual Studio. Upgrade an existing project To upgrade an ex...
Introducing .NET 5
Today, we're announcing that the next release after .NET Core 3.0 will be .NET 5. This will be the next big release in the .NET family. There will be just one .NET going forward, and you will be able to use it to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly and more. We will introduce new .NET APIs, runtime capabilities and language features as part of .NET 5. From the inception of the .NET Core project, we've added around fifty thousand .NET Framework APIs to the platform. .NET Core 3.0 closes much of the remaining capability gap with .NET Framework 4.8, enabling Windows...
Using .NET and Docker Together – DockerCon 2019 Update
DockerCon 2019 is being held this week, in San Francisco. We posted a DockerCon 2018 update last year, and it is time to share how we've improved the experience of using .NET and Docker together over the last year. We have a group of .NET Core team members attending the conference again this year. Please reach out @ dotnet@microsoft.com if you want to meetup. Most of our effort to improve the .NET Core Docker experience in the last year has been focused on .NET Core 3.0. This is the first release in which we've made substantive runtime changes to make CoreCLR much more efficient, honor Docker resource limit...
Azure SignalR Service now supports ASP.NET!
Azure SignalR Service is a fully managed real-time messaging service, built on ASP.NET Core SignalR. ASP.NET Core SignalR has many features incompatible with ASP.NET SignalR, so existing ASP.NET SignalR Application doesn't work with SignalR Service. We added the ASP.NET support to SignalR Service SDK to enable this scenario. This blog also lists features that are no longer supported and provides references on documents and code samples.
Introducing .NET for Apache® Spark™ Preview
Today at Spark + AI summit we are excited to announce .NET for Apache Spark. Spark is a popular open source distributed processing engine for analytics over large data sets. Spark can be used for processing batches of data, real-time streams, machine learning, and ad-hoc query. .NET for Apache Spark is aimed at making Apache® Spark™ accessible to .NET developers across all Spark APIs. So far Spark has been accessible through Scala, Java, Python and R but not .NET. We plan to develop .NET for Apache Spark in the open (as a .NET Foundation member project) along with the Spark and .NET community to ensur...
Upcoming Updates for .NET Framework 4.8
Upcoming Updates for .NET Framework 4.8 The .NET Framework 4.8 product release is now available. The .NET Framework 4.8 product will receive updates on the same cadence and the usual channels (Windows Update, WSUS, Catalog) as all .NET Framework and Windows cumulative updates. For Windows 10, .NET Framework 4.8 updates will now be delivered as independent updates, alongside the Windows cumulative updates. In this post, I explain how updates to .NET Framework 4.8 are delivered so you are ready for them. What is new about .NET Framework 4.8 updates? Updates for .NET Framework 4.8 on Windows 10...
Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 4
Today, we are making the fourth preview of Entity Framework Core 3.0 available on NuGet, alongside .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 4. We encourage you to install this preview to test the new functionality and assess the impact of the included breaking changes. What’s new in EF Core 3.0 Preview 4? This preview includes more than 50 bug fixes and functional enhancements. You can query our issue tracker for the full list of issues fixed in Preview 4, as well as for the issues fixed in Preview 3, and Preview 2. Some of the most important changes are: LINQ queries are no longer evaluated on ...
Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 4
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4. It includes a chart control for Windows Forms, HTTP/2 support, GC updates to use less memory, support for CPU limits with Docker, the addition of PowerShell in .NET Core SDK Docker container images, and other improvements. If you missed it, check out the improvements we released in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 3 just last month. Download .NET Core 3 Preview 4 right now on Windows, macOS and Linux. ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core updates are also being released today. The preview version of Visual Studio 2019 Update 1 is highly recommended for .NET Core 3.0 ...
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4
.NET Core 3.0 Preview 4 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core. Find out what's new in this latest preview release.