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.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.

Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3

November 14, 2019 Nov 14, 2019 11/14/19
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we're announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3. .NET Core 3.1 is a small and short release focused on key improvements in Blazor and Windows desktop, the two big additions in .NET Core 3.0.. It will be a long term support (LTS) release. We are coming near the end of the 3.1 release and expect to release it in early December. You can download...

.NET Framework November 13, 2019, Update for .NET Framework 4.8

November 13, 2019 Nov 13, 2019 11/13/19
Brett Lopez
Today, we released an update for .NET Framework 4.8 to Microsoft Update Catalog. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following reliability improvement. CLR1 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) Known Issues in this update There are no known issues with this update, however, this update resolves a previous known issue. These...

ML.NET Model Builder Updates

November 12, 2019 Nov 12, 2019 11/12/19
Bri Achtman
ML.NET is a cross-platform, machine learning framework for .NET developers, and Model Builder is the UI tooling in Visual Studio that uses Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) to easily allow you to train and consume custom ML.NET models.

.NET Framework Repair Tool

November 11, 2019 Nov 11, 2019 11/11/19
Namrata Karnam
Today, we are announcing an update to .NET Framework Repair tool. In case you are not familiar with previous releases of this tool, here is a bit of background. Occasionally, some customers will run into issues when deploying a .NET Framework release or its updates and the issue may not be fixed from within the setup itself. In such cases, ...

Building Modern Cloud Applications using Pulumi and .NET Core

November 11, 2019 Nov 11, 2019 11/11/19
.NET Team
This is a guest post from the Pulumi team. Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code tool that helps developers and infrastructure teams work better together to create, deploy, and manage cloud applications using their favorite languages. For more information, see https://pulumi.com/dotnet. We are excited to announce .NET Core support ...