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Releasing F# Language Documentation as Open-Source
Guest post by Den Delimarsky, Program Manager, Butt & Enterprise Continuing our efforts to make our documentation more flexible and open, we are releasing the F# language documentation as open-source. This means that starting today you can both easily download the most up-to-date documents for offline consumption, as well as contribute to sections that you feel require work. All pages within this documentation set are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported. What changed? Here is a list of things that changed that you should be aware of. While we are still working on impr...
Announcing Entity Framework Core RC2
Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core RC2 available. This coincides with the release of .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2. EF Core, formerly known as EF7 Between RC1 and RC2, we changed from Entity Framework 7 to Entity Framework Core 1.0. This naming helps convey that EF Core is a new code base that does not inherit all the features and API surface of EF6.x. You can read more about the reasons for the change in this post by Scott Hanselman. Upgrading from RC1 to RC2 There are a number of changes in RC2 t...
Announcing Entity Framework Core RC2
Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core RC2 available. This coincides with the release of .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2. EF Core, formerly known as EF7 Between RC1 and RC2, we changed from Entity Framework 7 to Entity Framework Core 1.0. This naming helps convey that EF Core is a new code base that does not inherit all the features and API surface of EF6.x. You can read more about the reasons for the change in this post by Scott Hanselman. Upgrading from RC1 to RC2 There are a number of changes in RC2 t...
Announcing .NET Core RC2 and .NET Core SDK Preview 1
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is not supported. Today, we are announcing the release of .NET Core RC2. You can use it to build ASP.NET Core, console apps and class libraries for Windows, OS X and Linux. RC2 is a major update from the November RC1 release, including new APIs, performance and reliability improvements and a new set of tools. You can install .NET Core SDK 1.0 Preview 1 now (including .NET Core RC2), on Windows, OS X and Linux. You can also use it with Docker. You can use .NET Core RC2 with a variety of editors and IDEs: Coming soon: ...
Announcing .NET Core RC2 and .NET Core SDK Preview 1
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is not supported. Today, we are announcing the release of .NET Core RC2. You can use it to build ASP.NET Core, console apps and class libraries for Windows, OS X and Linux. RC2 is a major update from the November RC1 release, including new APIs, performance and reliability improvements and a new set of tools. You can install .NET Core SDK 1.0 Preview 1 now (including .NET Core RC2), on Windows, OS X and Linux. You can also use it with Docker. You can use .NET Core RC2 with a variety of editors and IDEs: Coming soon: ...
Announcing ASP.NET Core RC2
Edit: ASP.NET Core RC2 is now available for use with Azure Web Applications We are very pleased to announce the availability of ASP.NET Core RC2. This release succeeds the ASP.NET 5 RC1 release and features a number of updates to enhance compatibility with other .NET frameworks and an improved runtime. You can install the RC2 from http://dot.net. What happened to ASP.NET 5? This release features the rebranding of ASP.NET 5 to ASP.NET Core. This renaming was made in order to clarify that this is a new framework built from the ground up and not a revision of the existing ASP.NET frameworks. More details can...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – May 10, 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 – 5/10/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 5/3/2016. On.NET Last week in On .NET, we had the pleasure to speak with Andy De George about SadConsole, his text-based gaming engine. This week's guest is still TBD. Post of the week: Stack Overflow - How we do deployment This week, I want to do something exceptional for an exceptional post: extract it from the list to make sure that nobody misses it. Nick Craver, from Stack Overflow, wrote a very detailed post on how they do deployments. There's something to learn for everyone in there, and I highly recommend you check it out and take the time to read the whole ...
The 1st Billion
Today, NuGet.org reached one billion downloads. This is a momentous achievement for our users and the community of package authors who continue to use and build new libraries that is the cornerstone of .NET adoption. We want to take this opportunity to give a huge thank you to the millions of our users who made this milestone possible. With the advent of .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Universal Windows Apps, open sourcing of the Xamarin Platform, and the accelerated use of NuGet, we believe we will hit the next 1 billion in a year or so. Journey to 1 Billion NuGet started out as the NuPack project which was then rena...