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.NET Support and Versioning
This post was written by Lee Coward. We’ve travelled many new roads in the process of releasing .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0. Developing the projects in the open and delivering to Mac and Linux have been exciting experiences and the feedback we continue to receive shows that the excitement is shared by many. Getting 1.0 to you is only the beginning. This post will introduce the ways in which we will be releasing updates for the .NET Core family. Taking care of the inevitable things that don’t work quite right, delivering updates, continuing to innovate and providing a rock solid ...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – July 19, 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 – 7/26/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 7/19/2016. On .NET Last week, we had Rowan Miller on the show to talk about Entity Framework. This week's show has been canceled and is anticipated to return next week. Package of the week: OpenPop.NET OpenPop.NET is an open source implementation of a POP3 client and a robust MIME parser written in C#. It gives developers access to email on a POP3 server in a matter of minutes. The following is an example on how to download all email from a server: Xamarin App of the week: Continuous .NET C# and F# IDE Build C# and F# applications on your iPad with ...
A Peek into F# 4.1
Later this year, we're going to ship a new version of Microsoft's tools for F#. This will include support for F# 4.1, featuring important incremental improvements to the language that have been developed in conjunction with F# users and contributors. Our tools will also include a cross-platform, open-source F# 4.1 compiler toolchain for .NET Framework and .NET Core, suitable for use on Linux, macOS/OS X, and Windows. We are also updating the Visual F# IDE Tools for use with the next version of Visual Studio. The Visual F# Tools for F# 4.1 will be updated to include support for editing and compiling .NET Core a...
The week in .NET – 7/19/2016
To read the last post, see The week in .NET – 7/12/2016. On .NET Last week's show was postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date. This week, we will have Rowan Miller on the show to talk about EF Core. Package of the week: ImageResizer ImageResizer is an IIS/ASP.NET lightweight HTTPModule, REST API and managed API that is used for safe and highly-optimized server-side image processing. Below is an example on how to convert and resize images as they are being uploaded: Game of the week: Tumblestone Tumblestone is a fast paced action-puzzle game where players can battle their friends in multipla...
.NET Core Roadmap
This post was written by Scott Hunter. It has been about two weeks since we shipped .NET Core / ASP.NET Core 1.0. The team has used the past two weeks to take a deep breath, and is now getting started on planning what is coming next. We have seen a lot of .NET Core SDK downloads and significant feedback. Please keep the feedback coming. Here is a rough timeline of how things might look going forward. Note that these are the targeted dates that the team are currently working towards but may change. 1.0.1 (~August 2016) We are actively monitoring the 1.0 release for issues to include in a first patch (1.0.1) rele...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – July 12, 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...
Visual Studio ‘15’ Preview 3 for C# and Visual Basic
One of our major focuses in Visual Studio ‘15' is improving developer productivity inside the editor. As we develop, we all perform series of actions over and over again--like writing methods, renaming variables, changing method signatures, implementing interfaces, etc. Our goal is to help automate or reduce these tasks to a single click so that you can focus on logic rather than syntax, references, style, and formatting. You may have noticed each Visual Studio ‘15’ release enhances existing experiences to save you a little more time and effort and enables you to build faster with additional refactorings and code...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – July 5, 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...