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The week in .NET – 8/16/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/9/2016. On .NET Last week, we had Pablo Santos and Francisco Monteverde to talk about PlasticSCM, a version control system with interesting features such as semantic merge and digital asset management. If you think version control is done and that Git is the end of it, you should check out the video, and prepare to be surprised: This week, we'll have Lucas Meijer from Unity 3D. Package of the week: Orleans Orleans is a framework that provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and...
Introducing the .NET Framework Monthly Rollup
We are making an important change to .NET Framework updates to align with the Windows Monthly Rollup, also announced today. Beginning October 2016, you will be able to install a new update release called the .NET Framework Monthly Rollup. The rollup will update the .NET Framework with the latest security and quality improvements. The .NET Framework Monthly Rollup is a single install that updates each supported .NET Framework version on a machine to its latest respective update level. Each Monthly Rollup supersedes the last one, so if you've missed the last few months of updates, you only need to install the late...
Announcing NuGet 3.5 RC
NuGet 3.5 Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2015, nuget.exe and NuGet 2.12 RTM for Visual Studio 2013 releases provide quality improvements, performance improvements, .NET Core CLI support, and new target frameworks like netstandard and netcoreapp for our users. Downloads All NuGet downloads are available on http://nuget.org/downloads. New Features Support for new Target Frameworks .NET Standard and Net Core App TFM support is now available for Visual Studio 2012 users via the 2.12 release. 3.5 Beta 2 also now supports netstandard1.6 TFM for Visual Studio 2015 users. .NET Standard provides a more concrete g...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – August 9, 2016
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 Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes, Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards, Jon Galloway and an occasional guest or two discuss new features and ask for feedback on important decisions being made by the ASP.NET development teams. Each week the standup is hosted live on Google Hangouts and the team publishes the r...
The week in .NET – 8/9/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/2/2016. On .NET Last week on the show, we had Frank Krueger to talk about his amazing Continuous C# and F# IDE for the iPad. This week, we'll speak with Francisco Monteverde about PlasticSCM. Package of the week: OxyPlot OxyPlot is an open source and cross-platform plotting library. Here's how you'd plot the function in a Universal Windows application: Tool of the week: .NET API Catalog .NET API Catalog is a new tool that makes it easy to explore .NET APIs and figure out what support exists for each API on each version of .NET: .NET Frame...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – July 26, 2016
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 Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes, Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards, Jon Galloway and an occasional guest or two discuss new features and ask for feedback on important decisions being made by the ASP.NET development teams. Each week the standup is hosted live on Google Hangouts and the team publishes the r...
Announcing .NET Framework 4.6.2
Updated (4/2017): See .NET Framework Releases for newer releases. Today we are excited to announce the availability of the .NET Framework 4.6.2! Many of the changes are based on your feedback, including those submitted on UserVoice and Connect. Thanks for your continued help and engagement! The release is packed with lots of great improvements in the following areas: You can see the full set of changes in the .NET Framework 4.6.2 change list and API diff. Download Now You can download the .NET Framework 4.6.2 now: Base Class Library (BCL) The following im...
The week in .NET – 8/2/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 7/26/2016. On .NET We had no show last week, and the guest for this week is still to be determined. Please check the On .NET channel on YouTube for updates. Package of the week: AForge.NET AForge.NET is an open source C# framework designed for developers and researchers in the fields of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence - image processing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, machine learning, robotics, etc. Here's the code for simple motion detection from a video feed: .NET Core App of the week: Emitter.io Emitter.io is a fa...
Entity Framework Core 1.1 Plans
Now that Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 1.0 is released, our team is beginning work on bug fixes and new features for the 1.1 release. Keep in mind that it's early days for this release, we're sharing our plans in order to be open, but there is a high chance things will evolve as we go. High level goals Our goal with 1.1 release is to make progress on the items that are blocking folks from using EF Core. Timeframe EF Core 1.1 is scheduled for Q4 2016 / Q1 2017. We'll have a more exact date as we get closer to the release and decide where to draw the line on features to be included. What features are we w...