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Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14...
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.NET Core August 2020 Updates – 2.1.21 and 3.1.7
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core August 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Security CVE-2020-1597: ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in ASP.NET Core. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. A denial of service vulnerability exists when ASP.NET Core improperly handles web requests. An attacker who successfully exploite...
Advanced search on NuGet.org
We are excited to announce that NuGet.org now supports one of our top customer asks - advanced search! You can now use a multitude of sorting and filtering criteria to help find the best NuGet packages for your needs!
.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10, version 2004
Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 on Windows 10, version 2004. 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...
Learn about the latest .NET Productivity features
The .NET Productivity team (a.k.a. Roslyn) is constantly thinking of new ways to make .NET developers more productive. We’ve been working hard to take the feedback you’ve sent us and turn it into tools that you want! In this post, I’ll cover some of the latest .NET productivity features available in Visual Studio 2019. Tooling improvements The feature that I’m most excited about is the IntelliSense completion in DateTime and TimeSpan string literals. This feature is extremely helpful because we all know remembering DateTime and TimeSpan formats is hard enough. Place your caret inside the DateTime or TimeSpan ...
Hybrid Blazor apps in the Mobile Blazor Bindings July update
Hybrid Blazor apps now supported in Mobile Blazor Bindings Preview 4.
.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview
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
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.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
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
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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...