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.NET Core March 2020 Updates – 2.1.17 and 3.1.3

March 24, 2020 Mar 24, 2020 03/24/20
Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core March 2020 Update. These updates only contain non-security fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a Visual Studio user, there are MSBuild version requirements so use only the .NET Core SDK supported for each Visual Studio version. Information needed to ...

Catch up on the latest .NET Productivity features

March 24, 2020 Mar 24, 2020 03/24/20
Mika Dumont
The Roslyn team continuously works to provide tooling that deeply understands the code you are writing in-order to help you be more productive. In this post, I'll cover some of the latest .NET Productivity features available in Visual Studio 2019. Tooling improvements The feature that I'm most excited about is the new Go To Base command. Go...

Announcing F# 5 preview 1

March 18, 2020 Mar 18, 2020 03/18/20
Phillip Carter
We're excited to announce that F# 5 preview 1 is now available! Here's how to get it: If you're using Visual Studio on Windows, you'll need both the .NET 5 preview SDK and Visual Studio Preview installed. Using F# 5 preview You can use F# 5 preview via the .NET 5 preview SDK, or through the .NET and Jupyter Notebooks support. If you'...

Updates on .NET Core Windows Forms designer

March 17, 2020 Mar 17, 2020 03/17/20
Olia Gavrysh
We released a preview version of Visual Studio 16.6 - Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 1 and with it a new version of .NET Core Windows Forms designer. (image) This release contains Coming next In the future releases we will be working on and third-party controls support, integration with popular controls vendors...

Async ValueTask Pooling in .NET 5

March 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020 03/16/20
Stephen Toub - MSFT
The async/await feature in C# has revolutionized how developers targeting .NET write asynchronous code. Sprinkle some and around, change some return types to be tasks, and badda bing badda boom, you've got an asynchronous implementation. In theory. In practice, obviously I've exaggerated the ease with which a codebase can be made fully ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 1

March 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020 03/16/20
Arthur Vickers
Today we are excited to announce the first preview release of EF Core 5.0. Prerequisites The previews of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1. This means: How to get EF Core 5.0 previews EF Core is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can use the ...

Announcing .NET 5 Preview 1

March 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020 03/16/20
Scott Hunter [MSFT]
At the end of last year, we shipped .NET Core 3.0 and 3.1. These versions added the desktop app models Windows Forms (WinForms) and WPF, ASP.NET Blazor for building single page applications and gRPC for cross-platform, contract-based messaging. We also added templates for building services, rich generation of client code for talking to gRPC, ...