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Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – April 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...
The week in .NET – 4/27/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/19/2016. Xamarin Evolve Tomorrow, April 27th, the Xamarin Evolve conference keynote will be streamed live at 9AM EST. Watch it here: https://evolve.xamarin.com/live. On.NET Last week on the show, we had Burke Holland and Sam Basu from Telerik. This week, we'll speak with Benjamin Fistein and Jakub Míšek about Peachpie, a PHP compiler built with Roslyn to target .NET. Package of the week: Live-Charts for WinForms and WPF Live-Charts is a fun charting library that is fast enough that it can update charts automatically from user actions and data changes. It'...
Announcing NuGet 3.4.3
Today, we are releasing the 3.4.3 RTM version of the NuGet Visual Studio 2015 extension and the Windows x86 commandline executable. We continue to heavily invest in improving the quality of NuGet scenarios in Visual Studio and commandline. The complete list of issues fixed in this version is available on GitHub. In this post, we will review the important changes in 3.4.3 release. You can download the latest 3.4.3 RTM VS extension and Windows x86 Commandline from here. Changes Our release notes for 3.4.3 and the issues list in GitHub, goes into more details around the changes in this release. What's Ne...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – April 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 – 4/19/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/12/2016. On.NET Last week on the show, we looked at what PlayFab is doing to help game developers take advantage of the cloud. This week, we'll be speaking with Telerik. Package of the week: NUglify NUglify is a library that can minify JavaScript and CSS. It has no dependencies, and can run on .NET Core. Xamarin app of the week: Cinemark Cinemark is a leading theater chain in North America, with $2.7 billion in revenue and 5,600 screens. Disappointed by the hybrid app development frameworks Appcelerator and Sencha Touch, Cinemark chose a native path wit...
Introducing the Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool Version 1.3
This post was written by Rakesh Ranjan Singh, Senior Software Engineer on the .NET Setup team. We are happy to announce the latest version of the .NET Framework Repair Tool that supports all versions of the .NET Framework from 3.5 SP1 to 4.6.1. This version of the tool adds support for .NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1. The .NET Setup team has made some significant investments over the last couple of years in improving the deployment experience for the .NET Framework setup and its updates. Occasionally, some customers will run into issues with deploying the .NET Framework or its updates that cannot be fixed...
On .NET – 4/14/2016 – PlayFab
We're back this week with a new episode with PlayFab to talk about how the cloud can help make awesome games. PlayFab is going to be present at a few conferences over the next couple of months: Mobile Dev + Test: https://mobiledevtest.techwell.com/program/concurrent-sessions/can-your-mobile-infrastructure-survive-million-concurrent-users STAREAST: https://stareast.techwell.com/program/concurrent-sessions/continuous-integration-new-way-life STAREAST: https://stareast.techwell.com/program/women-who-test/when-youre-lone-female-voice-reason Better Software West: https://bscwest.techwell.com/program/concurre...
What’s new for the .NET Native Compiler and Runtime in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2
Last week we released an update to the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Universal Windows Apps (UWA). The release includes improvements across the libraries, runtime, and compiler. This means that development is faster and applications will be more responsive and easier to maintain. Applications such as NCAA March Madness Live and TuneIn Radio are already available in the Store built using our new .NET Native tools! Get the Universal Windows Platform Tools The latest version for Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Universal Windows Apps has been released as an update for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. It can be obtained by in...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – April 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...