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Announcing ASP.NET 5 Release Candidate 1

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15

Jeffrey Fritz

Update - 11-30-2015: The ASP.NET 5 RC1 installers and DNX packages have been updated to address the following issues: The updated version of DNX (1.0.0-rc1-update1) is available via the .NET Version Manager (DNVM). Note, no other ASP.NET 5 NuGet packages are affected by this update and thus their versions remain unchanged. If you ...

Entity Framework 7 RC1 Available

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15

Rowan Miller

Today we are making Entity Framework 7 RC1 available. EF7 will be the next major release of Entity Framework and is currently in pre-release.   When to use EF7 As discussed in our EF7 – v1 or v7 post, EF7 introduces some significant changes and improvements over EF6.x. Because EF7 is based on a new core, the features from EF6.x do ...

Updates to Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview

November 7, 2015 Nov 7, 2015 11/7/15

Henrik F Nielsen

We just released Beta4 of ASP.NET WebHooks Preview with a nice set of new features based on feedback and help from the community! Always let us know what you think – either by raising a issue on GitHub or pinging me on twitter. You can get the update from nuget.org by looking for the packages under Microsoft.AspNet.WebHooks.*. If you haven...

Announcing .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC

October 29, 2015 Oct 29, 2015 10/29/15

The .NET Fundamentals Team

Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is not supported. We are pleased to announce the release of .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC today. This release includes ~150 fixes and some new features. You can read about the new fixes and features that are included in the RC release and try out the bits ...

.NET Core and ASP.NET Launches a Beta Bug Bounty Program.

October 20, 2015 Oct 20, 2015 10/20/15

Jeffrey Fritz

A guest post from Barry Dorrans, the security lead for ASP.NETToday, with great excitement, we announce an introductory 3 month bug bounty program for .NET Core and ASP.NET, our new open source, cross platform runtime and web stack. The program encompasses the latest beta version, beta 8 and any subsequent beta or release candidates ...

Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta8

October 15, 2015 Oct 15, 2015 10/15/15

Daniel Roth

ASP.NET 5 beta8 is now available both on NuGet and as a tooling update to Visual Studio 2015! This release greatly expands the supported surface area of .NET Core on OS X and Linux. You can now use networking, cryptography and globalization features cross-platform! This release also includes some nice improvements to ASP.NET 5, DNX and ...

Receive WebHooks from Azure Alerts and Kudu (Azure Web App Deployment)

October 3, 2015 Oct 3, 2015 10/3/15

Henrik F Nielsen

The Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks preview is moving forward! We have received two very cool source contributions adding support for Kudu (Azure Web App Deployment) and Bitbucket. There is a sample for Bitbucket, but here we will focus on Kudu as well as Azure Alerts which just announced support for WebHooks. Kudu provides a ton of functionality ...

Announcing the ASP.NET WebHooks Visual Studio Extension Preview

September 29, 2015 Sep 29, 2015 09/29/15

Brady Gaster

After a few days of work, I’m excited to introduce you to the ASP.NET WebHooks preview support we’ve put together for Visual Studio developers. This tool bootstraps your ASP.NET project with the NuGet packages and configuration code you’ll need so you can add custom processing for incoming WebHook requests from third parties like GitHub...

What’s new for .NET and UWP in Win10 Tools 1.1

September 28, 2015 Sep 28, 2015 09/28/15

Rich Lander [MSFT]

This post was written by Lucian Wischik, Program Manager on the Managed Languages team. Last week we updated the Visual Studio tools for Universal Windows Apps. The easiest way to get the update is within Visual Studio, under Tools > Extensions > Updates. (Also read the release notes). As part of this update, we're including a new ...

ASP.NET Community Standup – September 15, 2015

September 22, 2015 Sep 22, 2015 09/22/15

Jeffrey Fritz

This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup.  The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET 5 framework over the previous week.  Within 30 minutes...