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The week in .NET – 12/15/2015

December 15, 2015 Dec 15, 2015 12/15/15

Bertrand Le Roy

We have some great content and news for you this week. I can't emphasize enough that this weekly post couldn't exist without community contributions, and I'd like to thank all those who sent links and tips. Keep them coming! In a way, this is an open source blog post series ;) The first piece of news I want to share is that the posts are ...

Support Ending for the .NET Framework 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1

December 9, 2015 Dec 9, 2015 12/9/15

Stacey Haffner [MSFT]

Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. As previously announced, starting January 12, 2016 Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, technical support or hotfixes for .NET 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1 frameworks. All other framework versions, including 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1, will be supported for the ...

The week in .NET – 12/08/2015

December 8, 2015 Dec 8, 2015 12/8/15

Bertrand Le Roy

Welcome to the second "The Week in .NET" post. It was great to see how well the first post was received. Thanks to all who sent messages of encouragement and contributions to this week's post. If you would like to participate too, if you wrote a great blog post, or just read one, if you want to show an amazing new contribution, if you've ...

New feature to enable C# 6 / VB 14

December 7, 2015 Dec 7, 2015 12/7/15

Web Development Tools Microsoft

The model to leverage updated versions of C# or VB in web apps has changed over the past few years. In the past to leverage a new version of C# or VB you would get the runtime and build tools by installing the .NET Framework. With Visual Studio 2015 and the latest version of MSBuild this is no longer needed. You can decide which applications ...

[Guest Post] Announcing F# Support in Visual Studio Code with Ionide

December 3, 2015 Dec 3, 2015 12/3/15

Visual FSharp Team [MSFT]

This is a guest post by Krzysztof Cieślak, an F# community developer and contributor to the Ionide project including its Visual Studio Code extension. To learn more about F# and engage with the community, head to fsharp.org. To learn more about the Ionide project, head to ionide.io.Ionide is a suite of packages for the Atom editor that ...

The Week in .NET – 12/1/2015

December 1, 2015 Dec 1, 2015 12/1/15

Bertrand Le Roy

This is our first "The Week in .NET" post. Our objective in writing this is to provide more regular updates about what the team and core contributors have been working on, and to give a community heartbeat, in the form of a list of interesting links. Of course, if you wrote a great blog post, or just read one, if you want to show a great new ...

.NET Framework 4.6.1 is now available!

November 30, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 11/30/15

The .NET Fundamentals Team

Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (1/2016): This post was updated to add information about reference source for .NET Framework 4.6.1. Today we are announcing the availability of  .NET Framework 4.6.1. You can download this release now. Here is a summary of key improvements ...

What’s New in Visual Studio Update 1 for .NET Managed Languages

November 30, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 11/30/15

.NET Team

(image) Hold on to your hats, cowboys and cowgirls! A lot of exciting things are coming out of the .NET Managed Languages team for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. Read on to learn more about new IDE features, interactive C#, new code analysis management, Visual F# improvements, and the new F5 experience for Roslyn open source development. (...

.NET Core and ASP.NET Bug Bounty Update

November 24, 2015 Nov 24, 2015 11/24/15

Barry Dorrans

As we've now released RC1 of .NET Core and ASP.NET restrictions on areas for investigation are now lifted. The entire cross platform stack, including networking is now in scope and eligible for bounty submissions.The ASP.NET web site has instructions on how to install RC1 on Windows, Linux and OS X. Windows researchers can use Visual ...

Using ASP.NET WebHooks with IFTTT and Zapier to Monitor Twitter and Google Sheets

November 20, 2015 Nov 20, 2015 11/20/15

Henrik F Nielsen

With the latest drop of ASP.NET WebHooks we have added a generic JSON WebHook receiver, which can be used to receive WebHooks from services like IFTTT and Zapier. Both IFTTT and Zapier provide a huge number of integrations in areas such as productivity, automotive, blogging, CRM, commerce, project management, IoT, social, mobile, collaboration...