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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 ...

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...

Are you GLAD?

November 20, 2015 Nov 20, 2015 11/20/15
maoni
Holidays are almost upon us. Last year around Christmas time I wrote a set of GC ETW blog entries to help with diagnosing GC heap related issues. This year I want to discuss taking that a (big) step further and making an SDK that does the analysis for you using these ETW events - so before I leave for vacation I’d like to share with you ...

Announcing .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 RC

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is not supported. Today, we are announcing .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 Release Candidate, supported on Windows, OS X and Linux. This release is "Go Live", meaning you can deploy apps into production and call Microsoft Support if you need help. Please check out ...