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Making It Better: Updates for ASP.NET 5 in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5

It's been about two months since we released the first beta of ASP.NET 5, and today we happy to announce that ASP.NET 5 Beta2 is available. For developers using Visual Studio, you'll find great new tools to support and enhance your development process.  All ASP.NET developers will be able to take advantage of a new runtime and many ...

API review process for .NET Core

Happy new year! Three weeks ago we published a proposal for an API review process on GitHub and asked for your feedback. The process is now in-place and documented in our developer wiki. Review process Our primary goal with this review process is to provide a good balance between OSS agility and ensuring high quality APIs. This requires...

GC ETW Events – 4

GC ETW series - GC ETW Events - Part 1 GC ETW Events - Part 2 GC ETW Events - Part 3 GC ETW Events - Part 4 (this post) Processing GC ETW Events Programmatically with the GLAD Library So you thought it was over, eh? But wait, there is more! My vacation is not over yet! 😀 In the last blog entry I explained the Suspend MSec and the ...

GC ETW Events – 3

GC ETW series - GC ETW Events - Part 1 GC ETW Events - Part 2 GC ETW Events - Part 3 (this post) GC ETW Events - Part 4 Processing GC ETW Events Programmatically with the GLAD Library In the last blog entry we looked at a particular GC trigger reason – InducedNotForced GCs. There are 2 other triggered reasons for ...

GC ETW events – 2

GC ETW series - GC ETW Events - Part 1 GC ETW Events - Part 2 (this post) GC ETW Events - Part 3 GC ETW Events - Part 4 Processing GC ETW Events Programmatically with the GLAD Library Before we continue from where we left off in the last blog entry I wanted to give a performance tip on managed memory analysis. As some of you who have...

GC ETW events – 1

GC ETW series - GC ETW Events - Part 1 (this post) GC ETW Events - Part 2 GC ETW Events - Part 3 GC ETW Events - Part 4 Processing GC ETW Events Programmatically with the GLAD Library A lot of people have mentioned to me that I have not posted anything for a long time. I do realize it and do appreciate being asked to write more. Well, ...

Yeoman generators for ASP.NET 5

Hi everyone, this post is in my name but it’s authored by Sourabh Shirhatti. He was a **Program Manager Intern **from the University of Texas at Austin that I’ve had the pleasure of working with this summer. This post is long overdue, we should have posted this a while back. Better late than never :)   (image) Building complex modern ...

ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 3.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3 Beta releases

While the MVC team is working hard on MVC 6 as part of the ASP.NET 5 effort, we also keep working on the 5.x packages. Today we are releasing a Beta of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 5.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3.This preview release addresses 12 issues. Here is the full list.Highlight of issues fixedWeb API Issues2092 Significant performance ...

The Changelog interview on open sourcing .NET

We recently talked to Adam and Jared at The Changelog about open sourcing .NET Core. Check out the show.   (image) #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET team Here's the introduction from The Changelog: This week, we have members from .NET core team at Microsoft on the show to discuss Microsoft’s motivation for ...