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Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview) unifies agent creation, orchestration, tooling, hosting, and observability so any .NET developer can ship production AI agen...
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ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 5
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.NET 5 Preview 5 is now available and is ready for evaluation! .NET 5 will be a current release. Get started To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 5.0 Preview5 install the .NET 5.0 SDK. If you're on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing Visual Studio 2019 16.6. If you're on macOS, we recommend installing the latest preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.7. Upgrade an existing project To upgrade an existing ASP.NET Core 5.0 preview4 app to ASP.NET Core 5.0 preview5: 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 Preview ...
Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5
Announcing the release of Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5 featuring database collations, flowing arguments to IDesignTimeDbContextFactory, no tracking queries with identity resolution, stored (persisted) columns and SQLite computed columns.
Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 5
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Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 5. 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 many are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be very close to feature-complete by Preview 7. You can download .NET 5.0 Preview 5, for Windows, macOS, and Linux: ASP.NET Core and EF Core are also being released today. You need to use Visual Studio 2019 16.7 to use .NET 5.0. Install the latest version of the C# extension, t...
.NET Core June 2020 Updates – 2.1.19 and 3.1.5
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core June 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Security CVE-2020-1108: .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability To comprehensively address CVE-2020-1108, Microsoft has released updates for .NET Core 2.1 and .NET Core 3.1. Customers who use any of these versions of .NET Core should install the latest version of .NET Core. See the Release Notes for the latest version numbers and instructions for updating .NET Core. Microsoft is aware of a denial of service vulnerability whi...
Help us improve WPF and UWP XAML designer
We would like to make your experience developing WPF and UWP applications in Visual Studio better! Currently we are investigating ways of improving the XAML Designer and making you more productive while developing UI for your apps. You can already check out our preview version of the new feature called Suggested Actions that enables easy access to common properties when a control is selected. This feature is available in  Visual Studio 2019 Preview version 16.6 and later. To use it, first enable it through Options > Preview Features > XAML Suggested Actions. Once enabled, click on a supported control and...
Continuous integration workflow template for .NET Core desktop apps with GitHub Actions
Learn how to use a starter workflow in GitHub to help you quickly set up and showcase DevOps for your .NET Core desktop applications using GitHub Actions.
Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings May update
Update of Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings with CSS fixes, improved docs, and easier syntax!
NuGet.org will permanently remove support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on June 15th
Last November, we shared our two-stage plan for deprecating TLS 1.0/1.1 on NuGet.org in which we stated that the permanent removal of TLS 1.0/1.1 support would occur in April 2020. However, in April, to avoid disrupting customers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we announced that we would continue to support TLS 1.0/1.1 until further notice. Now that some time has passed, we feel it is important to resume our plans to help ensure our customer’s security. As such, NuGet.org will permanently remove support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on June 15th, 2020. Prior to that date, please ensure that your systems use TLS 1.2...
Introducing YARP Preview 1
YARP is an extensible open source reverse proxy using .NET. The Preview 1 library is now available on nuget.