.NET Blog

Introducing ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 2

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17

Jeffrey Fritz

At Build 2017, we released an initial preview version of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  Over the last two months we have incorporated your feedback and added a number of new features.  We now have a Preview 2 version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework and Visual Studio tools for you to try.  In this post, we will review some of the new features in this ...

.NET Framework June 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10

June 27, 2017 Jun 27, 2017 06/27/17

Rich Lander [MSFT]

Today, we are releasing a new Cumulative Quality Update for the .NET Framework. It is specific to Windows 10 Creators Update (1703). Previously released security and quality updates are included in this release, including the NET Framework May 2017 Security and Quality Rollup and the May 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10. There ...

The week in .NET – .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit

June 27, 2017 Jun 27, 2017 06/27/17

Bertrand Le Roy

Previous posts: .NET Conf, September 19-21. Call for Content is Open! .NET Conf is a free, 3 day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. Over the course of the three days developers have a wide selection of live sessions that feature speakers from the community and .NET product teams. These are ...

.NET AI/ML themed blogs: Building recommendation engine for .NET applications using Azure Machine Learning

June 26, 2017 Jun 26, 2017 06/26/17

.NET Team

⏱ Updated on June 28, 2017 🙌 Welcome to the first of  .NET's new AI and Machine Learning themed blog entries! We have set up this space as a place to share and discuss the work we will be doing with AI and Machine Learning. Through a series of blog posts, we would like to show you different ways on how .NET developers can ...

The week in .NET – .NET Architecture: Microservices & Containers, On .NET with Omer Raviv on OzCode, Sprache

June 20, 2017 Jun 20, 2017 06/20/17

Bertrand Le Roy

Previous posts: .NET Architecture – Microservices & Containers We recently added an Architecture Guidance page on the .NET Website. This new page pulls together architecture related resources for building different types of applications with .NET. We’ll be adding and updating content as it becomes available. The ...

The week in .NET – On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf

June 14, 2017 Jun 14, 2017 06/14/17

Bertrand Le Roy

Previous posts: On .NET: Mattias Karlsson - Cake During the Microsoft Build conference, we recorded interviews with some of the attendees. Mattias Karlsson is a core contributor on Cake, the cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL. Package of the week: Topshelf Topshelf is a framework for hosting ...

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 is available on Windows Update, WSUS, and MU Catalog

June 13, 2017 Jun 13, 2017 06/13/17

Jamshed Damkewala

Last Updated: 9/14/2017 We are happy to announce the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 is now available on Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and the Microsoft Update (MU) Catalog for the following operating systems: Client platforms: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Version 1607) Server platforms: ...

.NET Core 2 and Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) Preview 2

June 12, 2017 Jun 12, 2017 06/12/17

Lee Coward

Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) Preview 2 was recently released which includes .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1, our latest production releases of .NET Core. You will need to install the .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 SDK to develop .NET Core 2.0 applications using Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) Preview 2 . We are working on .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 which will be ...

.NET Fringe: A Great Role Model for Community Oriented Conferences

June 12, 2017 Jun 12, 2017 06/12/17

Immo Landwerth

A few of us just went to a smaller .NET conference in Portland, called .NET Fringe. For me, it was the third time I attended .NET Fringe. I've realized that this conference has gained a special place in my heart, so thought it would be worthwhile writing up why that is. My goal isn't to convince you to attend .NET Fringe per se, but to ...

Performance Improvements in .NET Core

June 7, 2017 Jun 7, 2017 06/7/17

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Update (2017/06/12): Added BenchmarkDotNet blog post link. There are many exciting aspects to .NET Core (open source, cross platform, x-copy deployable, etc.) that have been covered in posts on this blog before. To me, though, one of the most exciting aspects of .NET Core is performance. There's been a lot of discussion about the ...