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.NET Framework February 2018 Security and Quality Rollup
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Today, we are releasing the February 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security No new security fixes. See .NET Framework January 2018 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. It includes the same quality improvements that were part of the January 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. ASP.NET Identity SQL WCF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS bug number provided with each improvement is a unique ID that you can give Microsoft Customer Suppo...
Machine Learning in .NET – Help us build the right experience!
In the past few years, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have paved the road for building smarter applications through advancements in speech recognition, computer vision, intelligent search and much more. So far the ability to build models has largely been limited to data scientists, as a part of the .NET platform moving forward we want to democratize this capability for all .NET developers. With this vision in mind, we in the .NET team are currently trying to understand common cases of how you are exploring ML and AI. Please tell us about your scenarios and get involved through the survey ...
Announcing ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4
Today we released stable packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4 on NuGet. This release contains some minor bug fixes and a couple of new features specifically targeted at enabling .NET Standard support for the ASP.NET Web API Client. You can read about the .NET Standard support for the ASP.NET Web API Client in the earlier preview announcement. For the full list of features and bug fixes for this release please see the release notes. To update an existing project to use this release you can run the following commands from the NuGet Package Manager Console for each of the packages you...
Two Lesser Known Tools for Local Azure Development
If you’re developing applications that target Azure services (e.g. Web Apps, Functions, Storage), you’ll want to know about two powerful tools that come with Visual Studio 2017 and the Azure development workload: * Cloud Explorer is a tool window inside Visual Studio that lets you browse your Azure resources and perform specific tasks – like stop and start app service, view streaming logs, create storage items. * Storage Emulator is a separate application to Visual Studio that provides a local simulation of the Azure storage services. It’s really handy for testing Functions that trigger from queues, blobs or tabl...
File nesting in Solution Explorer
We are excited to share with you a new capability in Visual Studio that was a clear ask from you, the community. Visual Studio has been nesting related files in Solution Explorer for a long time now, but not everybody agrees with the rules it uses. That's not a problem any more because Visual Studio now gives you** complete control over file nesting in Solution Exporer! We hope your continued feedback helps us evolve this capability into a fan favorite! Out of the box you get to pick between the presets Off, Default and Web**, but you can always** customize it exactly to your liking.** You can even create soluti...
Diagnosing Errors on your Cloud Apps
One of the most frustrating experiences is when you have your app working on your local machine, but when you publish it it’s inexplicably failing. Fortunately, Visual Studio provides handy features for working with apps running in Azure. In this blog I’ll show you how to leverage the capabilities of Cloud Explorer to diagnose issues in Azure. If you’re interested in developing apps in the cloud, we’d love to hear from you. Please take a minute to complete our one question survey. Prerequisites - If you want to follow along, you’ll need Visual Studio 2017 with Azure development workload installed. - This blog a...
A new experiment: Browser-based web apps with .NET and Blazor
Today I’m excited to announce a new experimental project from the ASP.NET team called Blazor. Blazor is an experimental web UI framework based on C#, Razor, and HTML that runs in the browser via WebAssembly. Blazor promises to greatly simplify the task of building fast and beautiful single-page applications that run in any browser. It does this by enabling developers to write .NET-based web apps that run client-side in web browsers using open web standards. If you already use .NET, this completes the picture: you’ll be able to use your skills for browser-based development in addition to existing scenarios for se...
Learn how to do Image Recognition with Cognitive Services and ASP.NET
With all the talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) doing crazy things, it’s easy to be left wondering, “what are practical ways I can use this today?" It turns out there are some extremely easy ways to try this today. In this post, I’ll walk through how to detect faces, gender, ages, and hair color in photos, by adding only a few lines of code to an ASP.NET app. Images will be uploaded and shown in an image gallery built with ASP.NET, images will be hosted in Azure Storage, and Azure Cognitive Services will be used to analyze the images. The full application is available on GitHub. To ...
Announcing .NET Framework 4.7.2 Early Access build 3052!
Today, we are happy to share the .NET Framework 4.7.2 Early Access build 3052 for your feedback. .NET Framework 4.7.2 is the next version of the .NET Framework. It is currently feature-complete and in the testing phase. We would love your help to ensure this is a high quality and compatible release. This release is feature complete and in the testing phase but is not supported for production use. Next steps: This pre-release build 3052 includes improvements in several areas. Here's a representative set and we will share further information on these features in the subsequent weeks. ...