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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot!
.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 Core July 2020 Updates – 2.1.20 and 3.1.6
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
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
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: ...
F# 5 and F# tools update for June
We’re excited to announce more updates to F# 5 today! We shipped an initial set of features with F# 5 preview 1, and they have all been stabilizing since that release including a updates from last month. Today, we’re happy to announce some new language features, a sneak peek at using F# in VSCode notebooks, and some F# tooling updates that will align with Visual Studio 2019 Update 16.7. You can get the latest F# 5 in these ways If you’re using Visual Studio on Windows, you’ll need both the .NET 5 preview SDK and Visual Studio Preview installed. Using F# 5 preview You can use F# 5 preview via...
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 6
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.NET 5 Preview 6 is now available and is ready for evaluation. Here's what's new in this release: Get started To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 5.0 Preview 6 install the .NET 5.0 SDK. You need to use Visual Studio 2019 16.7 or Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.6 to use .NET 5.0. Install the latest version of the C# extension, to use .NET 5.0 with Visual Studio Code. Upgrade an existing project To upgrade an existing ASP.NET Core 5.0 Preview 5 app to ASP.NET Core 5.0 Preview 6: See the full list of breaking changes in ASP.NET Core 5.0. That’s it! You should now be all set to use .NET 5 Previe...
Announcing Entity Framework Core EFCore 5.0 Preview 6
Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the sixth preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes split queries for related collections, a new "index" attribute, improved exceptions related to query translations, IP address mapping, exposing transaction id for correlation, and much more. Prerequisites EF Core 5.0 will not run on .NET Standard 2.0 platforms, including .NET Framework. The previews of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1. This means that EF Core 5.0 will run on .NET Core 3.1 and does not require .NET 5. To summarize: EF Core 5.0 runs on platforms that support .NET Standard 2.1. ...
Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 6
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Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 6. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but some are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be feature-complete with Preview 8. You can download .NET 5.0 Preview 6, for Windows, macOS, and Linux: ASP.NET Core and EF Core are also being released today. Note: EF Core 5.0 will not support .NET Standard 2.0 or .NET Framework. Read the EF Core post to learn more. You need ...
Introducing dotnet-monitor, an experimental tool
is an experimental tool that makes it easier to get access to diagnostics information in a dotnet process. When running a dotnet application differences in diverse local and production environments can make collecting diagnostics artifacts (e.g., logs, traces, process dumps) challenging. aims to simplify the process by exposing a consistent REST API regardless of where your application is run. This blog post details how to get started with and covers the following: Tour of dotnet-monitor Setup will be made available via two different distribution mechanism: The setup ins...
gRPC-Web for .NET now available
gRPC-Web for .NET is now officially released. Use gRPC in the browser with gRPC-Web and .NET today.