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AJAX Control Toolkit Critical Update

September 3, 2015 Sep 3, 2015 09/3/15

Jeffrey Fritz

Our friends at DevExpress have been hard at work on the AJAX Control toolkit and have an update available that should be installed to cover a critical security vulnerability that has existed prior to the v15.1.x version.Brian Cardinale discovered the security vulnerability, a directory traversal issue, and has a blog post describing the issue ...

MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core!

September 3, 2015 Sep 3, 2015 09/3/15

Nikolai Tillmann

We have some exciting new developments to share – an update on our open source development, our ongoing cross-platform work, and more. Going forward, we will post everything around MSBuild and build tools in general here on the .NET blog. You can still check out the many interesting tips and tricks that we earlier posted on the MSBuild ...

Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta7

September 2, 2015 Sep 2, 2015 09/2/15

Daniel Roth

ASP.NET 5 beta7 is now available both on NuGet and as a tooling update to Visual Studio 2015! This release also includes the first public preview of the .NET Execution Environment (DNX) for Mac and Linux based on .NET Core – no Mono required. Let’s take a look at how we can get started with ASP.NET 5 beta7. Installation Note: To use ...

The future of Unity

August 21, 2015 Aug 21, 2015 08/21/15

Immo Landwerth

This post was written by Christopher Bennage (@bennage), a member of the Microsoft patterns & practices team.A few months ago, we announced that we were handing Prism over to new owners. We put a lot of time and effort into identifying owners that would invest in the project and support the community.Today, we are announcing a similar ...

ASP.NET Community Standup – August 18, 2015

August 20, 2015 Aug 20, 2015 08/20/15

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...

Gen2 free list changes in CLR 4.6 GC

August 12, 2015 Aug 12, 2015 08/12/15

maoni

I wanted to mention this because I started seeing posts about it. In 4.6 we improved the way we use the gen2 free list to promote gen1 survivors into. Unfortunately there was a perf bug that I didn’t notice till it was fairly late so it wasn’t approved to be checked into 4.6 at the time. Now that I am seeing more people hitting it...

August 2015 .NET Security Updates

August 11, 2015 Aug 11, 2015 08/11/15

The .NET Fundamentals Team

The .NET team released two security bulletins today as part of the monthly "Update Tuesday" cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-080 - Critical, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3078662) This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework. The most severe of the ...

[Guest post] Visual F# Power Tools: community-led tooling for F# in Visual Studio

August 5, 2015 Aug 5, 2015 08/5/15

Visual FSharp Team [MSFT]

This is a guest post by Anh-Dung Phan and Vasily Kirichenko, F# community developers and contributors to the superb Visual F# Power Tools extension for Visual Studio. – Visual F# Team We are pleased to tell you about the Visual F# Power Tools, a Visual Studio extension aimed at providing extended tooling for F# in Visual Studio. You can...

Universal Windows apps in .NET

July 30, 2015 Jul 30, 2015 07/30/15

Rich Lander [MSFT]

This post was written by Lucian Wischik, a Program Manager on the Managed Languages team. We just released the Universal Windows app development tools for writing Windows 10 apps in Visual Studio 2015. It is an exciting release: you can now use the latest .NET technology to build Universal Windows Platform ("UWP") apps that run on every ...

RyuJIT Bug Advisory in the .NET Framework 4.6

July 28, 2015 Jul 28, 2015 07/28/15