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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot!
May 19, 2025
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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot!

Jeffrey T. Fritz
Jeffrey T. Fritz

.NET Aspire 9.3 is the biggest release of .NET Aspire yet, with the introduction of GitHub Copilot directly into the .NET Aspire Dashboard, updates for integrat...

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.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview
Jul 21, 2020
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.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview

Tara Overfield
Tara Overfield

Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET - Use FIPS-compliant hashes in ASP.Net telemetry data. - Addresses an issue where "Unspecified" was not an allowed value in config for the 'cookieSameSite' attribute of the forms authentication and session state configuration sections. CLR1 - A change in .NET Framework 4.8 regressed certain EnterpriseServices scenarios where an single-thread apartment object may be treated as an multi-thread apartment and lead...

ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 5 Preview 7
Jul 21, 2020
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ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 5 Preview 7

Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]

.NET 5 Preview 7 is now available! Check out all the improvements in ASP.NET Core in this preview update.

Announcing Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 7
Jul 21, 2020
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Announcing Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 7

Jeremy Likness
Jeremy Likness

Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the seventh preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes a factory to create instances, the ability to reset state, Cosmos DB improvements including enhanced support for configuration options and partition keys, and much more. In this post To summarize: EF Core 5.0 runs on platforms that support .NET Standard 2.1. The plan is to maintain .NET Standard 2.1 compatibility through the final release. How to get EF Core 5.0 previews EF Core is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider t...

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 7
Jul 21, 2020
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Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 7

Rich Lander [MSFT]
Rich Lander [MSFT]

Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 7. It's the second to last of the preview releases (before moving to RC). Most features should be very close to done at this point. Single file and ARM64 intrinsics are two feature areas that are taking the longest time to complete, but are on track for Preview 8. See the .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post for a broader view of the release. ASP.NET Core and EF Core are also being released today. You can download .NET 5.0 Preview 7, for Windows, macOS, and Linux: You need to use Visual Studio 2019 16.7 to use .NET 5.0. .NET 5.0 is now supported with V...

New experimental Razor editor for Visual Studio
Jul 15, 2020
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New experimental Razor editor for Visual Studio

Daniel Roth
Daniel Roth

With the release of Visual Studio 2019 16.7 Preview 4, you can now try out our new experimental Razor editor for local development with MVC, Razor Pages, and Blazor. We're excited for you to give it a try!

.NET Framework July 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates
Jul 14, 2020
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.NET Framework July 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

Tara Overfield
Tara Overfield

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.   Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Fram...

.NET Core July 2020 Updates – 2.1.20 and 3.1.6
Jul 14, 2020
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.NET Core July 2020 Updates – 2.1.20 and 3.1.6

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)
Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core July 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Security CVE-2020-1147: .NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET Core. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. Microsoft is aware of a remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET software when the software fails to check the source markup of...

Performance Improvements in .NET 5
Jul 13, 2020
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Performance Improvements in .NET 5

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

Explore many performance improvements, big and small, that have gone into the .NET 5 runtime and core libraries to make apps and services leaner and faster.

Orchard Core Release Candidate 2 now available
Jun 26, 2020
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Orchard Core Release Candidate 2 now available

Sebastien Ros
Sebastien Ros

We are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core RC2 is now available. What is Orchard Core? Orchard Core Framework is a community-based application framework for building modular, multi-tenant applications on ASP.NET Core. It has been created by more than 150 contributors and has over 4K stars on GitHub. Orchard Core also includes Orchard Core CMS, a Web Content Management System (CMS), that is built on top of the Orchard Core Framework. It allows you to build full websites, or headless websites using GraphQL. Getting Started Installing the templates You can install the recommended templates by running: ...