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Conversation about .NET interop

Richard Lander June 1, 2021 Jun 1, 2021 06/1/21

Conversation with .NET engineers about native, language, and operating system interop. They share their perspectives on modern programming languages, low-level concepts like calling conventions and marshaling, performance, comparing .NET and Java Interop, and a new project that adds support for Interop with Objective-C.

F# and F# tools update for Visual Studio 16.10

Phillip Carter May 26, 2021 May 26, 2021 05/26/21

Visual Studio 16.10 comes with more updates to the F

.NET Framework May 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10, versions 2004, 20H2, 21H1

Tara Overfield May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Today, we are releasing the May 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 NCL2 WPF3 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Network Class Library (NCL) 3 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 4: Performance Edition

Shay Rojansky May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Learn about some serious optimizations that have gone into Entity Framework Core 6.0, and how much faster it now performs.

Introducing the .NET Hot Reload experience for editing code at runtime

Dmitry Lyalin May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Introducing the new .NET Hot Reload user experience for editing managed code at runtime, now available through the Visual Studio 2019 debugger and dotnet watch.

Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 4

David Ortinau May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) Preview 4. Each preview introduces more controls and features to this multi-platform toolkit on our way to general availability this November at .NET Conf. .NET MAUI now has enough building blocks to build functional applications for all supported ...

Announcing .NET 6 Preview 4

Richard Lander May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

.NET 6 Preview 4 is now available.

Show dotnet: Investigating Alpine Linux CVEs in .NET container images

Richard Lander May 21, 2021 May 21, 2021 05/21/21

The results of a Alpine Linux CVE investigation and new guidance on using .NET images.

.NET Framework May 2021 Cumulative Update Preview

Tara Overfield May 20, 2021 May 20, 2021 05/20/21

Today, we are releasing the May 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 NCL2 WPF3 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Network Class Library (NCL) 3 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF...

Conversation about ready to run

Richard Lander May 19, 2021 May 19, 2021 05/19/21

Conversation with .NET engineers about the ready to run executable format. They share their perspective on the origins of ready to run, the strengths and weaknesses of the format, and comparing it to both IL and Native AOT.