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The week in .NET – 7/12/2016
To read the last post, see The week in .NET – 6/28/2016. On .NET Last week, we had Mukul Sabharwal on the show to talk about .NET Core usage at Bing. This week, we'll have Lucas Meijer from Unity Technologies on the show. Package of the week: LinqToTwitter LINQ to Twitter is an open source library that enables querying Twitter using standard LINQ syntax. Here's an example of a query that returns search results where people are tweeting about LINQ to Twitter: Game of the week: Assault Android Cactus Assault Android Cactus is a fast paced arcade style twin stick shooter. In Assault Android Cactus, p...
Working through things on other OSs
We just shipped CoreCLR 1.0. That was a significant milestone for us – now we officially run on non Windows OSs and that’s very exciting. Folks who told me that they really missed using C# or wanted to use C# but couldn’t because they were not using Windows can now do so. Yay! For GC it would seem like there shouldn’t’ve been much work to get it to run on non Windows because if you look at the GC code, it looks pretty portable – we don’t use any fancy language features in GC (I like this aspect a lot and will keep it that way); there’s a bunch of arithmetic operations on simple types, some locks (mostly impleme...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – June 28th 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 rec...
The week in .NET – 6/28/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 6/21/2016. We shipped! We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications. This release includes the .NET Core runtime, libraries, and tools as well as the ASP.NET Core libraries. We are also releasing Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code extensions that enable you to create .NET Core projects. You can get started at https...
Announcing .NET Core 1.0
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications. This release includes the .NET Core runtime, libraries and tools and the ASP.NET Core libraries. We are also releasing Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code extensions that enable you to create .NET Core projects. You can get started at https://dot.ne...
Announcing ASP.NET Core 1.0
The first version of ASP.NET 1.0 came out almost 14 years ago. Since then many developers have used it to build and run great web applications, and over the years we have added and evolved many, many capabilities to it. Today we are excited to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 1.0! This new release is one of the most significant architectural updates we've done to ASP.NET. As part of this release we are making ASP.NET leaner, more modular, cross-platform, and cloud optimized. ASP.NET Core is now available, and you can start using it today by downloading it here. ASP.NET Core is an open source web frame...
Announcing Entity Framework Core 1.0
Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core 1.0.0 available. This coincides with the release of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. Upgrading from RC2 to RTM If you are upgrading an application from RC2 to RTM, be sure to read our Upgrading from RC2 to RTM article. When to use EF Core We now have a Comparing EF Core and EF6.x section in our documentation. It includes guidance on when to use EF Core, feature comparisons, and information on porting to EF Core. These are the types of applications we would recommend u...
WCF Connected Service for .NET Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0 is now available
.Net Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0 are finally here, and with them we are pleased to announce an updated version of the WCF Connected Service - Preview compatible with these products. This is a Visual Studio extension for generating SOAP service references for clients built on top of WCF for .NET Core 1.0. This update replaces all previews releases of the extension and it comes with some UI improvements, like visual warnings when a form page in the configuration wizard needs user attention, in addition to several bug fixes. It is still in preview mode as the foundational Visual Studio tooling components are no...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – June 21, 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...