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Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 8

August 25, 2020 Aug 25, 2020 08/25/20
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 8. The .NET 5.0 release is now "feature complete", meaning that very nearly all features are in their final form (with the exception of bug fixes still to come). Preview 8 is, appropriately, the last preview. We plan on releasing two go-live release candidates before the final .NET 5.0 release in ...

New C# Source Generator Samples

August 25, 2020 Aug 25, 2020 08/25/20
Luca Bolognese
This post describes two new generators that we added to the samples project in the Roslyn SDK github repo. The first generator gives you strongly typed access to CSV data. The second one creates string constants based on Mustache specifications.

August ML.NET API and Tooling Updates

August 20, 2020 Aug 20, 2020 08/20/20
Bri Achtman
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

August 20, 2020 Aug 20, 2020 08/20/20
Tara Overfield
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

August 19, 2020 Aug 19, 2020 08/19/20
Phillip Carter
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

August 19, 2020 Aug 19, 2020 08/19/20
Matt Mitchell
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...

.NET Core August 2020 Updates – 2.1.21 and 3.1.7

August 11, 2020 Aug 11, 2020 08/11/20
Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)
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

July 31, 2020 Jul 31, 2020 07/31/20
Tara Overfield
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 ...