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Migration of Bing’s Workflow Engine to .NET 5
Bing runs one of the world’s largest, most complex, highly performant, and reliable .NET applications. This posts discusses the journey and the work required to upgrade to .NET 5. This migration has been an unqualified success for our team. The overall picture is clear that .NET 5 is phenomenally superior.
Conversation about diagnostics
Conversation with .NET engineers about diagnostics, profiling and observability. They share their perspective on performance, observability in production, the architecture of new features, and recent enhancements that they expect will get the most attention.
Show dotnet: Running my .NET nanoFramework for 8 years on a battery
.NET nanoFramework works directly on microprocessors like ESP32, STM32. It can deep sleep and have a very low battery consumption. I'll show you how to make it real.
ML.NET Survey: Model Explainability
Take the ML.NET Model Explainability survey to let us know what you want to see in ML.NET for explainability and fairness.
.NET Framework June 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates
Today, we are releasing the June 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security The June Security and Quality Rollup Update 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 NCL2 WPF3 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Network Class Library (NCL) 3 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Security and Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update, Wi...
.NET June 2021 Updates – 5.0.7 and 3.1.16
Today, we are releasing the .NET June 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.7 , 3.1.16 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Security CVE-2021-31957: ASP.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET 5.0 and .NET Core 3.1. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove th...
Conversation about containers
Conversation with .NET engineers who make .NET work great with containers. They share their perspective on OOMKill, performance, secure publishing, orchestrators, and why containers have become so popular.
Date, Time, and Time Zone Enhancements in .NET 6
.NET 6 Preview 4 introduces DateOnly and TimeOnly structs and improves time zone support.
Conversation about the .NET type system
Conversation with .NET engineers about the .NET type system. They share their perspective on value types vs structs, the murky boundary between C# and the CLR, upcoming type system enhancements, and also compare .NET and Java type systems.