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August ML.NET API and Tooling Updates

Bri AchtmanAugust 20, 2020Aug 20, 202008/20/20

ML.NET is an open-source, cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET developers. It enables integrating machine learning into your .NET apps without requiring you to leave the .NET ecosystem or even have a background in ML or data science. ML.NET provides tooling (Model Builder UI in Visual Studio and the cross platform ML.NET CLI) ...

.NET Framework August 2020 Cumulative Update Preview

Tara OverfieldAugust 20, 2020Aug 20, 202008/20/20

Today, we are releasing the August 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 WPF2 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Cumulative...

Help us improve Visual Studio project tooling for .NET Core

Phillip CarterAugust 19, 2020Aug 19, 202008/19/20

We're currently planning our next set of investments in Visual Studio project tooling for .NET. This tooling, called a project system, sits at the heart of nearly every major action you perform when writing .NET code in Visual Studio. What is the .NET project system? The .NET project system is a set of components that power nearly ...

A Deep Dive into How .NET Builds and Ships

Matt MitchellAugust 19, 2020Aug 19, 202008/19/20

This is a deep technical dive into the machinery and processes used by the .NET Team to build and ship .NET. It will be of interest to those who wish to know about such topics as: This post begins by laying out the multi-repository world that makes up the .NET product, its inherent challenges, and how we deal with them. This...

Bring the best of the Web to your .NET desktop applications with WebView2

Olia GavryshAugust 19, 2020Aug 19, 202008/19/20

Last year at Build, we introduced WebView2, a browser control that renders web content (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. It was originally limited in scope to C/C++ applications. Today, we are happy to announce the release of the WebView2 preview for .NET applications!

.NET Framework August 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

Tara OverfieldAugust 11, 2020Aug 11, 202008/11/20

Today, we are releasing the August 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security CVE-2020-1476– .NET Framework Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when ASP.NET or .NET Framework web applications running on IIS improperly allow access to cached files. An attacker who ...

.NET Core August 2020 Updates – 2.1.21 and 3.1.7

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)August 11, 2020Aug 11, 202008/11/20

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core August 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Security CVE-2020-1597: ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a ...

.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10, version 2004

Tara OverfieldJuly 31, 2020Jul 31, 202007/31/20

Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 on Windows 10, version 2004. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET - Use FIPS-compliant hashes in ASP.Net telemetry data. - Addresses an issue where "Unspecified" was not an ...

Learn about the latest .NET Productivity features

Mika DumontJuly 29, 2020Jul 29, 202007/29/20

The .NET Productivity team (a.k.a. Roslyn) is constantly thinking of new ways to make .NET developers more productive. We’ve been working hard to take the feedback you’ve sent us and turn it into tools that you want! In this post, I’ll cover some of the latest .NET productivity features available in Visual Studio 2019. Tooling ...

.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview

Tara OverfieldJuly 21, 2020Jul 21, 202007/21/20

Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET - Use FIPS-compliant hashes in ASP.Net telemetry data. - Addresses an issue where "Unspecified" was not an allowed value in config for the '...