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Dec 15, 2020
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Localize .NET applications with machine-translation

David Pine

A GitHub Action harnessing Azure Cognitive Services Translator to automatically create translation files.

Dec 14, 2020
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[Guest Post] Creating a game art asset pipeline in .NET

Sam Eddy

Check out how a game studio used .NET to create a game art asset pipeline.

Dec 10, 2020
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What’s new in Windows Forms runtime in .NET 5.0

Igor Velikorossov

Checkout all the exciting things happened in the Windows Forms land.

Dec 9, 2020
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Producing Packages with Source Link

Claire Novotny

Learn how to add Source Link to your packages, to make your users more productive while debugging.

Dec 8, 2020
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.NET December 2020 Updates – 5.0.1

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Today, we are releasing the .NET December 2020 Update. These updates contains reliability and other non-security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Also starting today, .NET Core updates will be delivered via Microsoft Update including Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and the Microsoft Update Catalog. See our previous post on about .NET Core updates coming to Microsoft Update for more information about this. You can download .NET 5.0.1, for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Improvements ...

Dec 8, 2020
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Infer#: Interprocedural Memory Safety Analysis For C#

Xin Shi

We are excited to announce the public release of Infer#, which brings the interprocedural static analysis capabilities of Infer to the .NET community.

Dec 7, 2020
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[Guest Post] Bring lights in Unity into the real-world using Philips Hue

Paul Marsh

Bring lights in Unity into the real world using Philips Hue.

Dec 3, 2020
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.NET Core 2.1, 3.1, and .NET 5.0 updates are coming to Microsoft Update

Jamshed Damkewala

12/09/2020: this post was updated to clarify that Client operating systems will get .NET Core updates via Automatic Updates, while Server operating systems will get .NET Core updates via WSUS and MU Catalog. 12/14/2021: this post was updated to reflect Hosting Bundle updates are also available on Microsoft Update now. Starting in December 2020, we will be delivering .NET Core updates on Windows via Microsoft Update. We have received many requests for this, particularly from organizations that acquire and manage all of their Microsoft-related updates via Microsoft (or Windows) Update. This change will enable...

Dec 2, 2020
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Custom V2 OData queries will be deprecated March 9, 2021

Jiachen Jiang

We announced the deprecation of custom V2 OData queries (#37) last year and conducted a dry run in early November to ensure that there are no surprises for users. Going forward, we plan to bring all new features and improvements only to the newer V3 APIs. As part of this strategy, we will begin blocking select endpoints used by 3rd party clients on March 9th, 2021. Based on server-side telemetry, less than 2% of OData traffic on nuget.org will be blocked by this deprecation effort. By inspecting user agent strings provided in requests to NuGet.org, our team identified and worked with affected 3rd party client im...