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GC Perf Infrastructure – Part 1

December 9, 2019 Dec 9, 2019 12/9/19
maoni
We open sourced our new GC Perf Infrastructure! It’s now part of the dotnet performance repo. I’ve been meaning to write about it ‘cause some curious minds had been asking when they could use it after I blogged about it last time but didn’t get around to it till now. First of all, let me point out that the target audience of this ...

.NET Core 2.2 will reach End of Life on December 23, 2019

December 5, 2019 Dec 5, 2019 12/5/19
Lee Coward
.NET Core 2.2 was released on December 4, 2018. As a non-LTS ("Current") release, it is supported for three months after the next release. .NET Core 3.0 was released on September 23, 2019. As a result, .NET Core 2.2 is supported until December 23, 2019. After that time, .NET Core patch updates will no longer include updated packages of ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4

December 3, 2019 Dec 3, 2019 12/3/19
Arthur Vickers
Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4 We are excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.1 and EF 6.4 on nuget.org. The final versions of .NET Core 3.1 and ASP.NET Core 3.1 are also available now. How to get EF Core 3.1 EF Core 3.1 is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to ...

Announcing .NET Core 3.1

December 3, 2019 Dec 3, 2019 12/3/19
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Announcing .NET Core 3.1 We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.1. It's really just a small set of fixes and refinements over .NET Core 3.0, which we released just over two months ago. The most important feature is that .NET Core 3.1 is an long-term supported (LTS) release and will be supported for three years. As we've done ...

Embracing nullable reference types

November 27, 2019 Nov 27, 2019 11/27/19
Mads Torgersen
Probably the most impactful feature of C# 8.0 is Nullable Reference Types (NRTs). It lets you make the flow of nulls explicit in your code, and warns you when you don't act according to intent. The NRT feature holds you to a higher standard on how you deal with nulls, and as such it issues new warnings on existing code. So that those ...

.NET Framework November 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup

November 19, 2019 Nov 19, 2019 11/19/19
Brett Lopez
Today, we are releasing the November 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements for .NET Framework for Windows 8.1, Server 2012 R2, Server 2012, Windows 7 SP1, Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Server 2008 SP2. Following this recent announcement, there are no optional ...

.NET Core November 2019 Updates – 2.1.14, 2.2.8, and 3.0.1

November 19, 2019 Nov 19, 2019 11/19/19
Jamshed Damkewala
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core November 2019 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...

gRPC vs HTTP APIs

November 18, 2019 Nov 18, 2019 11/18/19
James Newton-King
ASP.NET Core 3.0 adds support for gRPC, an opinionated contract-first remote procedure call framework. This blog post compares gRPC to JSON HTTP APIs, discusses gRPC's strengths and weaknesses, and when you could use gRPC to build your apps.