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Support Ending for the .NET Framework 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. As previously announced, starting January 12, 2016 Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, technical support or hotfixes for .NET 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1 frameworks. All other framework versions, including 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1, will be supported for the duration of their established lifecycle. The decision to end support for these versions will allow us to invest more resources towards improvements of the .NET Framework. What Does This Mean? You should ensure that a supported version of the .NET Framework is installed in you...
The week in .NET – 12/08/2015
Welcome to the second "The Week in .NET" post. It was great to see how well the first post was received. Thanks to all who sent messages of encouragement and contributions to this week's post. If you would like to participate too, if you wrote a great blog post, or just read one, if you want to show an amazing new contribution, if you've written a useful library, we'd love to hear from you, and feature it on future posts. You can send me an email to beleroy at Microsoft, or you can comment on this gist with new links, or you can simply leave us a pointer in the comment section below. Package of the week #0: Angl...
New feature to enable C# 6 / VB 14
The model to leverage updated versions of C# or VB in web apps has changed over the past few years. In the past to leverage a new version of C# or VB you would get the runtime and build tools by installing the .NET Framework. With Visual Studio 2015 and the latest version of MSBuild this is no longer needed. You can decide which applications leverage C# 6/VB 14 by adding a NuGet package, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, to your web projects. When you add this NuGet package to your web applications then you can start using C# 6/VB 14 in both the code behind as well as Views. Â In Visual Studio...
[Guest Post] Announcing F# Support in Visual Studio Code with Ionide
This is a guest post by Krzysztof Cieślak, an F# community developer and contributor to the Ionide project including its Visual Studio Code extension. To learn more about F# and engage with the community, head to fsharp.org. To learn more about the Ionide project, head to ionide.io.Ionide is a suite of packages for the Atom editor that aims to provide a fully-featured, modern, cross-platform, open-source IDE for F# development. It's available via download using the Atom Package Manager.At Connect, we announced the release of a set of Ionide extensions for Visual Studio Code, adding F#, Paket and FAKE support...
The Week in .NET – 12/1/2015
This is our first "The Week in .NET" post. Our objective in writing this is to provide more regular updates about what the team and core contributors have been working on, and to give a community heartbeat, in the form of a list of interesting links. Of course, if you wrote a great blog post, or just read one, if you want to show a great new contribution, if you've written a useful library, we'd love to hear from you, and feature it on future posts. You can send us such tips at beleroy at Microsoft, or you can comment on this gist with new links, or you can simply leave us a pointer in the comment section below. ...
.NET Framework 4.6.1 is now available!
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (1/2016): This post was updated to add information about reference source for .NET Framework 4.6.1. Today we are announcing the availability of  .NET Framework 4.6.1. You can download this release now. Here is a summary of key improvements available in .NET Framework 4.6.1: The .NET Framework 4.6.1 can be installed on Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 and the corresponding server platforms. You can use either the web installer or the offline installer based on your needs. ...
What’s New in Visual Studio Update 1 for .NET Managed Languages
Hold on to your hats, cowboys and cowgirls! A lot of exciting things are coming out of the .NET Managed Languages team for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. Read on to learn more about new IDE features, interactive C#, new code analysis management, Visual F# improvements, and the new F5 experience for Roslyn open source development. You can now right-click on a base type/member and navigate to its various implementations. New Editor Features Now that we have Roslyn in Visual Studio 2015, we can leverage its power to create the smartest IDE out there. The improvements we’ve made to the IDE experience in Update ...
.NET Core and ASP.NET Bug Bounty Update
As we've now released RC1 of .NET Core and ASP.NET restrictions on areas for investigation are now lifted. The entire cross platform stack, including networking is now in scope and eligible for bounty submissions.The ASP.NET web site has instructions on how to install RC1 on Windows, Linux and OS X. Windows researchers can use Visual Studio 2015, including the free Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, after installing RC1 from https://get.asp.net. The source for .NET Core can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/dotnet/corefx. The source for ASP.NET v5 can be found on GitHub at https://gi...
Using ASP.NET WebHooks with IFTTT and Zapier to Monitor Twitter and Google Sheets
With the latest drop of ASP.NET WebHooks we have added a generic JSON WebHook receiver, which can be used to receive WebHooks from services like IFTTT and Zapier. Both IFTTT and Zapier provide a huge number of integrations in areas such as productivity, automotive, blogging, CRM, commerce, project management, IoT, social, mobile, collaboration, and much more. For a full list, check out IFTTT channels and browse Zapier zaps. A really cool thing about both IFTTT and Zapier is that they enable regular HTTP requests to be output of an integration. That is, you can build integrations that when something happens, a We...