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.NET Framework December 5, 2018 Preview of Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019

December 5, 2018 Dec 5, 2018 12/5/18
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the December 5, 2018 Preview of .NET Framework Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019. For more information about the new Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019 please refer to this recent announcement. Quality and Reliability This ...

Announcing .NET Core 2.2

December 4, 2018 Dec 4, 2018 12/4/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.2. It includes diagnostic improvements to the runtime, support for ARM32 for Windows and Azure Active Directory for SQL Client. The biggest improvements in this release are in ASP.NET Core. ASP.NET Core 2.2 and Entity Framework Core 2.2 are also releasing today. You can download and ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.2

December 4, 2018 Dec 4, 2018 12/4/18
Diego Vega
Today we're making the final version of EF Core 2.2 available, alongside ASP.NET Core 2.2 and .NET Core 2.2. This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform object-database mapping technology. EF Core 2.2 RTM includes more than a hundred bug fixes and a few new features: Spatial data support Spatial data can be used to ...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.2, available today!

December 4, 2018 Dec 4, 2018 12/4/18
Damian Edwards
The main theme for this ASP.NET Core release was to improve developer productivity and platform functionality with regard to building Web/HTTP APIs. As usual, we made some performance improvements as well and posted about these features as part of the preview releases which you can read about by following the link below.

Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3694

November 28, 2018 Nov 28, 2018 11/28/18
namrata karnam
We are happy to let you know that .NET Framework 4.8 is now feature complete and we have an early access build to share with you all! We will continue to stabilize this release and take more fixes over the coming months, and we would greatly appreciate it if you could help us ensure this is a high-quality release by trying it out and providing...

.NET Framework November 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup

November 27, 2018 Nov 27, 2018 11/27/18
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the November 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR SQL WCF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS bug number provided with each improvement is a unique ID ...

Razor support in Visual Studio Code now in Preview

November 16, 2018 Nov 16, 2018 11/16/18
Daniel Roth
Earlier this week we released a preview of support for working with Razor files (.cshtml) in the C# extension for Visual Studio Code (1.17.1). This initial release introduces C# completions, directive completions, and basic diagnostics (red squiggles for errors) for ASP.NET Core projects. Prerequisites To use this preview of Razor support in...

Running with Server GC in a Small Container Scenario Part 0

November 16, 2018 Nov 16, 2018 11/16/18
maoni
This week I was able to get some time to work on the container stuff with low memory limits. As many of you have expressed your dissatisfaction on how Server GC behaves with low memory limit specified on containers on github, I have to apologize that I am just doing this now. Really sorry that some of you guys have to suffer through this thus ...