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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot!
.NET Aspire 9.3 is the biggest release of .NET Aspire yet, with the introduction of GitHub Copilot directly into the .NET Aspire Dashboard, updates for integrat...
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Using .NET and Docker Together
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Update: See Using .NET and Docker Together – DockerCon 2018 Update Many developers I talk to are either using Docker actively or planning to adopt containers in their environment. Containers are an important trend in our industry and .NET is part of that. Microsoft and Docker have been working together so that you'll have a great experience using Docker with .NET apps. The Docker ecosystem started as a Linux technology. You can use a similar Docker workflow with Linux and .NET Core as you may have used with other development platforms. The .NET team publishes Debian images to the microsoft/dotnet repository...
The week in .NET – .NET poster, Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas, Skyworld
Previous posts: .NET Poster Everybody likes posters, right? Well here's a modern .NET infographic to hang in your office. If you were at BUILD, you probably saw us handing thousands of these out to people. Now you can have one too! Download the poster! Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas In this quick interview, we talk to Jan Kotas, who was involved from the very beginning of .NET's "Rotor" -- a shared source, cross-platform version of .NET from the early days. Jan is now an architect on .NET Core and shares some of his stories building and open sourcing .NET. Game of the Week:...
Announcing EF 6.2 beta 1
Earlier this month, we announced a preview of Entity Framework Core 2.0, the lightweight, extensible and cross-platform version of EF for .NET Core and .NET Framework. Today we are making the 6.2 beta 1 version of the Entity Framework runtime and the corresponding Visual Studio tooling available. EF 6.2 is a new iteration of Microsoft's more traditional object/relational mapper for .NET Framework. Upgrading applications to the EF 6.2 beta 1 runtime As is usual, this prerelease version of the EF 6 runtime is available in NuGet. While in Visual Studio, you can install or update the EF package in an application...
Cloud Gal interview
Microsoft recently started a new series called "Cloud Gal" that promotes female software developers. They interviewed me last week and the episode just became live on Channel9. This was supposed to be pretty lighthearted so I stayed very high level when I talked about GC (turned out it was harder to talk on such high level than otherwise). It also included some non GC stuff (yes, I can talk about non GC stuff too...) like cats, anime and my thoughts on women in tech. If you are in the mood of something that's not focused on pure technical info, might be fun to watch. I would suggest to skip the introduction part ...
.NET Framework May 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup
This release is no longer recommended / available. A bug was found in the May 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup installer that is incompatible with the .NET Framework 4.7 installer. The bug only surfaces when the May 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup (this update) and the .NET Framework 4.7 are installed, in that order. See KB 4033488 for more information on the case where the .NET Framework 4.7 is installed after the May 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup. The .NET Framework quality improvements that were included in the May 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup will be released as planned in a future non-preview r...
The week in .NET – Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 preview 1, For the King
Previous posts: Microsoft Build 2017 The Microsoft Build 2017 conference is over. Here are some of the announcements and highlights: And of course, all the sessions are available on Channel 9. .NET Core 2.0 preview 1 shipped! Here are the announcements: And Mono 5 also shipped! Game of the Week: For the King For the King is a fun and unique take on an the classic RPG adventure game genre as it blends strategy, JRPG combat and roguelike elements beautifully. In For the...
Announcing EF Core 2.0 Preview 1
This week we made Entity Framework Core 2.0 Preview 1 available. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. EF Core follows the same release cycle as .NET Core but can be used in multiple .NET platforms, including .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Framework 4.6 or newer. Installing or upgrading to 2.0 Preview 1 Applications based on ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 can already use EF Core 2.0 Preview 1. Also, existing ASP.NET Core applications can upgrade EF Core by upgrading to the 2.0 Preview 1 version of the ASP.NET Core meta-package and removing any references...
Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1. It is the first public release of .NET Core 2.0. We have great improvements that we want to share and that we would love to get your feedback on. You can develop .NET Core 2.0 apps with Visual Studio 2017 Preview 15.3, Visual Studio for Mac or VS Code. ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 is also releasing today and takes advantage of the improvements in .NET Core 2.0 and Visual Studio 2017. You can download and get started with .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 right now, on Windows, Linux and macOS: You can see complete details of the release in the .NET ...
Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions
Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions are now available as part of the Azure development workload starting in the Visual Studio 2017 15.3 release. These tools: Getting Started To get started: To create a new project, choose File -> New Project, and the Azure Functions project type This will create an empty project which contains the following files: To add a function to the application right click the project and choose “Add Item”, then choose the “Azure Function” item template. This will launch the Azure Function dialog that enables you to choose the...