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Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14...
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.NET Framework October 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update
Yesterday, we are releasing the October 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. SQL WPF1 1 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Cumulative Update Preview is available via Windows Update and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Catalog You can get the update via the Microsoft Update Catalog. For Windows 10, NET Framework 4.8 updates are available via Windows Update and Microsoft Update Catalog. Updates for other versions of .NET Framework ar...
Choose a .NET Game Engine
Learn what game engines are, and choose which .NET game engine is best for you.
Introducing .NET Live TV – Daily Developer Live Streams
Introducing .NET Live TV, your one stop shop for all .NET and Visual Studio developer live streams across Twitch and YouTube.
.NET Framework republishing of July 2020 Security Only Updates
Today, we are republishing the July 2020 Security Only Updates for .NET Framework to resolve a known issue that affected the original release. You should install this version (V2) of the update as part of your normal security routine. Security CVE-2020-1147– .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability A remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET Framework when the software fails to check the source markup of XML file input. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the process responsible for deserialization of the XML content. To exploi...
.NET Framework October 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates
Revised 6/8/2021: On June 8th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous update to address a “revocation server was offline” error that may occur during installation. If you've already installed a previous release of this update, no action is required. Revised 4/15/2021: On April 13th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous release of this some updates. See known issues section for more details. If you've already installed a previous release of an affected update, no action is required. Revised 1/15/2021: Added known issues details for ASP.Net applications may not deliver cookieless...
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Release Candidate 2
.NET 5 Release Candidate 2 is now available! Check out all the improvements in ASP.NET Core in this update.
.NET Core October 2020 Updates – 2.1.23 and 3.1.9
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core October 2020 Update. These updates contains reliability and other non-security fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Getting the Update See the .NET Core release notes for details on the release, including issues fixed and affected packages. The latest .NET Core updates are available on the .NET Core download page. Lifecycle Updates Ubuntu 20.10 and Fedora 33 have been added as a supported OS with this update of .NET Core. Docker Images .NET Docker images have been updated for today’s release. The ...
Announcing Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 5 RC2
Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 gets closer to a final release. RC2 is now available with bug fixes and a go-live license.
Announcing .NET 5.0 RC 2
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Today, we are shipping .NET 5.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2). It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the last of two RCs before the official release in November. RC2 is a "go live" release; you are supported using it in production. At this point, we're looking for reports of any remaining critical bugs that should be fixed before the final release. We also released new versions of ASP.NET Core and EF Core today. You can download .NET 5.0, for Windows, macOS, and Linux: You need the latest preview version of Visual Studio (including Visual Studio for Mac) to use .NET 5.0. .N...