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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot!
May 19, 2025
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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot!

Jeffrey T. Fritz
Jeffrey T. Fritz

.NET Aspire 9.3 is the biggest release of .NET Aspire yet, with the introduction of GitHub Copilot directly into the .NET Aspire Dashboard, updates for integrat...

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Introducing DevOps-friendly EF Core Migration Bundles
Aug 16, 2021
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Introducing DevOps-friendly EF Core Migration Bundles

Jeremy Likness
Jeremy Likness

EF Core's new migration bundles generate binary artifacts that you can use to deploy schema and data changes as part of your continuous delivery process.

Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 7
Aug 10, 2021
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Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 7

David Ortinau
David Ortinau

.NET MAUI Preview 7 is now available with new layouts, improved accessibility, font scaling, and more.

Preview Features in .NET 6 – Generic Math
Aug 10, 2021
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Preview Features in .NET 6 – Generic Math

Tanner Gooding [MSFT]
Tanner Gooding [MSFT]

If you’ve ever wanted to use operators with generic types or thought that interfaces could be improved by supporting the ability to define static methods as part of their contract, then this blog post is for you. With .NET 6 we will be shipping a preview of the new generic math and static abstracts in interfaces features.

String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6
Aug 10, 2021
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String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

Text processing is at the heart of huge numbers of apps and services, and in .NET, that means lots and lots of . creation is so fundamental that a myriad of ways of creating them have existed since .NET Framework 1.0 was released, and more have joined the fray since. Whether via 's constructors, or , or overrides, or helper methods on like or or or , APIs to create strings are ubiquitous. One of the most powerful APIs for creating strings in .NET, however, is . The method has a multitude of overloads, all of which share in common the ability to supply a "composite format string" and associated arguments...

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 7
Aug 10, 2021
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ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 7

Daniel Roth
Daniel Roth

.NET 6 Preview 7 is now available! Check out all the improvements in ASP.NET Core in this update.

Announcing .NET 6 Preview 7
Aug 10, 2021
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Announcing .NET 6 Preview 7

Richard Lander
Richard Lander

.NET 6 Preview 7 is now available.

.NET August 2021 Updates – 5.0.9, 3.1.18, 2.1.30
Aug 10, 2021
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.NET August 2021 Updates – 5.0.9, 3.1.18, 2.1.30

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)
Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Today, we are releasing the .NET August 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and other improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.9 , 3.1.18, 2.1.30 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Update: The .NET Core 2.1.29 August update did not include the correct fix for CVE-2021-34532. To resolve this, we are re-releasing the August security update for .NET Core 2.1 as 2.1.30. If you have installed .NET Core 2.1.29 previously you need to install the .NET Core 2.1.30 update in...

.NET Framework August 2021 Security and Quality Rollup
Aug 10, 2021
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.NET Framework August 2021 Security and Quality Rollup

Tara Overfield
Tara Overfield

Today, we are releasing the August 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security This release does not contain any new security fixes. See February 2021 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 Windows Forms 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) Getting the Update The Security and Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Catalog You can get the update via the ...

.NET Framework July 2021 Cumulative Update Preview
Jul 29, 2021
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.NET Framework July 2021 Cumulative Update Preview

Tara Overfield
Tara Overfield

Today, we are releasing the July 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework. Security The July Cumulative Update Preview does not contain any new security fixes. See February 2021 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 Windows Forms 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) Getting the Update The Cumulative Update Preview is available via Windows Update and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Catalog You can get the update via the Microsoft Update Catalog....