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F# and .NET Core Roadmap Update
Now that .NET Core 2.0 has been released, we wanted to take some time to talk about F# and .NET Core. F# and .NET Core 1.0 F# has been supported on .NET Core and .NET Standard since their 1.0 releases. In the months leading up to the release of .NET Core 1.0, Enrico Sada from the F# community worked with us and other teams at Microsoft to add support for F# projects in the .NET Core CLI and SDK. Enrico continued to work with us and other teams to ensure quality F# support as .NET Core tools evolved from project.json to MSBuild. We also focused on Portable PDB generation during this time so that F# was supporte...
Announcing .NET Core 2.0
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.NET Core 2.0 is available today as a final release. You can start developing with it at the command line, in your favorite text editor, in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac. It is ready for production workloads, on your own hardware or your favorite cloud, like Microsoft Azure. We are also releasing ASP.NET Core 2.0 and Entity Framework Core 2.0. Read the ASP.NET Core 2.0 and the Entity Framework Core 2.0 announcements for details. You can also watch the launch video on Channel 9 to see many of the new features in action. The .NET Sta...
Announcing .NET Standard 2.0
The .NET Standard 2.0 specification is now complete. It is supported in .NET Core 2.0, in the .NET Framework 4.6.1 and later versions, and in Visual Studio 15.3. You can start using .NET Standard 2.0 today. While this post demos .NET Standard in C#, it's also supported in Visual Basic and F#. For more details, take a look at the .NET Standard documentation as well as the API browser. For the impatient: TL;DR Creating a .NET Standard library Let's see .NET Standard 2.0 in action by creating a new project. You can do this in Visual Studio by invoking File | New Project. Choose Cla...
Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.0
Today we are releasing the final version of Entity Framework Core 2.0, alongside .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0. Entity Framework (EF) Core is the lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework, the popular Object/Relational Mapping (O/RM) framework for .NET. Getting the bits Prerequisites In order to develop .NET Core 2.0 applications (including ASP.NET Core 2.0 applications that target .NET Core) you will need to download and install a version of the .NET Core 2.0 SDK that is appropriate to your platform. This is true even if you have installed Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3....
Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0
The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0. This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm. For a full list of updates, you can read the release notes and you can check the list of changed items in the ASP.NET Announcements GitHub repository for a list of changes from previous versions of ASP.NET Core. The latest SDK and tools can be downloaded from https://dot.net/core. Read the .NET Core 2.0 release announcement for more information and watch the launch video...
Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance (Updated for .NET Core 2.0)
Updated for ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Nov. 15th 2017) Earlier this year, we published this eBook/Guide and sample application offering guidance for Architecting Modern Web Applications with ASP.NET Core and Microsoft Azure. We have recently published updates to the eBook (2nd edition) and sample application to bring them in line with the latest releases of ASP.NET Core 2.0 and Entity Framework Core 2.0. What's new The eBook/Guide has been updated to ASP.NET Core 2.0, .NET Standard Library 2.0 and Entity Framework 2.0 and .NET Core 2.0 in general, while referencing to the new code implemented in the updated sample app f...
NuGet Fall 2017 Roadmap
Over the past 6 months, the NuGet team has been working hard to ensure the growth of the .NET ecosystem. NuGet has grown significantly during this timeframe: NuGet.org is closing in on 4 billion packages served (up from a billion packages just a year ago), we have enabled new .NET scenarios such as .NET Standard 2.0, and have improved the overall user experience of package authors and consumers using the service. Yet, a lot more remains to be done. Along the way, we made some mistakes that our community has rightfully called us out on. We made changes to the client and the server that took some users by surprise...
.NET Framework August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup
Updated: 2017.08.10 Today, we are releasing the August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup Update. This update applies to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. Security There are no new security changes for the .NET Framework this month. Quality and Reliability Networking Note: The VSTS bug number listed above are provided so that you have a tracking number that you can refer to, search for and use with Customer support for each improvement. The actual VSTS bugs are only accessible to Microsoft employees. Getting the Update The Security and Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update ...
The week in .NET – Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando, and links!
Previous posts: Tool of the week: Rezoom.SQL Rezoom.SQL is an F# ORM for SQL databases. It integrates with the F# compiler via a generative type provider to statically typecheck its own dialect of SQL. It knows how to translate this SQL dialect to various backends. Currently it supports SQLite, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. The type provider makes it fast and easy to write SQL statements, run them, and consume their results from your F# code with full type safety. You don't need to install any editor extensions or custom tooling, just add a NuGet package and you're off and running writing code like this:. ...