.NET Blog

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.

Conversation about PGO

Richard Lander May 18, 2021 May 18, 2021 05/18/21

Conversation with .NET engineers about profile guided optimization (PGO). They share their perspectives on how PGO works, how it improves even sophisticated compilers, other platforms that have good PGO systems, and what .NET is doing to provide better performance with PGO.

.NET Framework May 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

Tara Overfield May 12, 2021 May 12, 2021 05/12/21

Yesterday, we released the May 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 Windows Forms WPF2 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)   ...

.NET May 2021 Updates – 5.0.6, 3.1.15, 2.1.28

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT) May 11, 2021 May 11, 2021 05/11/21

Today, we are releasing the .NET May 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.6 , 3.1.15, 2.1.28 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Security CVE-...