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gRPC performance improvements in .NET 5

October 27, 2020 Oct 27, 2020 10/27/20

James Newton-King

gRPC and .NET are fast. Explore the many performance improvements in gRPC and .NET 5.

Help Us Plan EF Core 6.0

October 27, 2020 Oct 27, 2020 10/27/20

Jeremy Likness

Help shape the future of how .NET developers interact with data by sharing your feedback about Entity Framework.

Announcing Version 1.0 of .NET for Apache Spark

October 27, 2020 Oct 27, 2020 10/27/20

Jeremy Likness

Announcing the release of version 1.0 of .NET for Apache® Spark™, an open source package that brings .NET development to the Apache® Spark™ platform.

.NET Framework October 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update

October 21, 2020 Oct 21, 2020 10/21/20

Tara Overfield

Yesterday, we are releasing the October 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. SQL WPF1 1 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Cumulative Update Preview is available via ...

Choose a .NET Game Engine

October 19, 2020 Oct 19, 2020 10/19/20

Abdullah Hamed

Learn what game engines are, and choose which .NET game engine is best for you.

Introducing .NET Live TV – Daily Developer Live Streams

October 15, 2020 Oct 15, 2020 10/15/20

James Montemagno

Introducing .NET Live TV, your one stop shop for all .NET and Visual Studio developer live streams across Twitch and YouTube.

.NET Framework republishing of July 2020 Security Only Updates

October 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020 10/13/20

Tara Overfield

Today, we are republishing the July 2020 Security Only Updates for .NET Framework to resolve a known issue that affected the original release.  You should install this version (V2) of the update as part of your normal security routine. Security CVE-2020-1147– .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability A remote code execution ...

.NET Framework October 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

October 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020 10/13/20

Tara Overfield

Revised 6/8/2021: On June 8th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous update to address a “revocation server was offline” error that may occur during installation. If you've already installed a previous release of this update, no action is required. Revised 4/15/2021: On April 13th, 2021, this update was released to ...

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Release Candidate 2

October 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020 10/13/20

Daniel Roth

.NET 5 Release Candidate 2 is now available! Check out all the improvements in ASP.NET Core in this update.

.NET Core October 2020 Updates – 2.1.23 and 3.1.9

October 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020 10/13/20

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core October 2020 Update. These updates contains reliability and other non-security fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Getting the Update See the .NET Core release notes for details on the release, including issues fixed and affected packages...