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Announcing .NET 6 Preview 6
.NET 6 Preview 6 is now available.
Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 6
.NET MAUI Preview 6 is now available with workload installation, support for gesture recognizers, modals, alerts, and the latest release of Windows App SDK.
.NET July 2021 Updates – 5.0.8 and 3.1.17
Today, we are releasing the .NET July 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and other improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.8 , 3.1.17 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Improvements Windows Arm64 Windows Forms and WPF are now supported on Windows Arm64. We added support for Windows Arm64 with .NET 6 Preview 1 and have since backported it to .NET 5 (with 5.0.8). Windows Forms and WPF work the same on Arm64 a...
.NET Framework June 2021 Cumulative Update Preview
Earlier this week, we released the June 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework for Windows 10, version 2004, Windows Server 2004, Windows 10, version 20H2, Windows Server 20H2, and Windows 10, version 21H1. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ClickOnce CLR1 Windows Forms WPF2 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Cumulative Update Preview is available via Windows Update and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Catalog You ca...
What’s new in Windows Forms in .NET 6.0 Preview 5
Read about the new features that are in Windows Forms in .NET 6.0 Preview 5.
Package Validation
Get started with Package Validation.
ML.NET June Updates
Check out what's new in ML.NET and Model Builder.
Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 5
.NET MAUI Preview 5 is now available. We have enabled animations and view transformations, completed the porting of several UI components, and introduced improvements to the single project templates.
Announcing Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 5: Compiled Models
Learn about blazing fast compiled models and other enhancements to EF Core 6.0 preview 5.