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.NET Core 3 for Windows Desktop

November 5, 2019 Nov 5, 2019 11/5/19
Olia Gavrysh
Intro In September, we released .NET Core support for building Windows desktop applications, including WPF and Windows Forms. Since then, we have been delighted to see so many developers share their stories of migrating desktop applications (and controls libraries) to .NET Core. We constantly hear stories of .NET Windows desktop developers ...

Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2

November 4, 2019 Nov 4, 2019 11/4/19
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we're announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2. .NET Core 3.1 will be 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 with an expected final ship date of December 2019. You can download .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2 on Windows...

The history of the GC configs

November 2, 2019 Nov 2, 2019 11/2/19
maoni
Recently, Nick from Stack Overflow tweeted about his experience of using the .NET Core GC configs – he seemed quite happy with them (minus the fact they are not documented well which is something I’m talking to our doc folks about). I thought it’d be fun to tell you about the history of the GC configs ‘cause it’s almost the weekend ...

Continuously deploy and monitor your UWP, WPF, and Windows Forms app with App Center

October 31, 2019 Oct 31, 2019 10/31/19
Winnie Li (MSFT)
App Center is an integrated developer solution with the mission of helping developers build better apps. Last week, we announced General Availability support of distribute, analytics and diagnostics service for WPF and Windows Forms desktop applications. We also expanded our existing UWP offerings to include crash and error reporting for ...

Introducing Orleans 3.0

October 30, 2019 Oct 30, 2019 10/30/19
Reuben Bond
This is a guest post from the Orleans team. Orleans is a cross-platform framework for building distributed applications with .NET. For more information, see https://github.com/dotnet/orleans. We are excited to announce the Orleans 3.0 release. A great number of improvements and fixes went in, as well as several new features, since Orleans 2.0...

Upcoming SameSite Cookie Changes in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core

October 18, 2019 Oct 18, 2019 10/18/19
Barry Dorrans
SameSite is a 2016 extension to HTTP cookies intended to mitigate cross site request forgery (CSRF). The original design was an opt-in feature which could be used by adding a new SameSite property to cookies. It had two values, Lax and Strict. Setting the value to Lax indicated the cookie should be sent on navigation within the same site, or ...

Fall .NET Core Survey

October 17, 2019 Oct 17, 2019 10/17/19
Sam Spencer
It’s been a busy time for .NET Core – we just shipped 3.0, and are currently working on a few updates for v3.1 (due in November.) As we turn our attention to .NET Core 5.0, we want to take a step back and see what you are doing with .NET Core and how we can make it even better. We have put together a quick survey that will help us ...