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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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Announcing .NET 5 Preview 1
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At the end of last year, we shipped .NET Core 3.0 and 3.1. These versions added the desktop app models Windows Forms (WinForms) and WPF, ASP.NET Blazor for building single page applications and gRPC for cross-platform, contract-based messaging. We also added templates for building services, rich generation of client code for talking to gRPC, REST API services, and a lot more. We’re excited to see that .NET Core 3 has become the fastest adopted version of .NET ever and we’ve gained another million more users in just the last year. We also communicated with these releases that this would conclude the porting of th...
Continuous integration and deployment for desktop apps with GitHub Actions
From speaking to desktop developers, we’ve heard that you want to learn how to quickly set up continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows for your WPF and Windows Forms applications in order to take advantage of the many benefits CI/CD pipelines have to offer, such as: That's why we created a sample application in GitHub to showcase DevOps for your applications using the recently released GitHub Actions. With GitHub Actions, you can quickly and easily automate your software workflows with CI/CD. The sample application demonstrates how to author the YAML files that comprise...
What do you want to see next in ML.NET?
ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework made for .NET developers. Using ML.NET, you can stay in .NET to easily build and consume custom machine learning models for scenarios like sentiment analysis, price prediction, sales forecasting, recommendation, image classification, and more. Over the past six months, the team has been working hard on fixing bugs, improving documentation, and adding more features and capabilities based on user feedback. This includes: Now we'd like to see how you're using ML.NET and what features we can add and/or improve to make the framework and...
Announcing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool 1.0!
Today we are releasing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool for Windows and Mac! Starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3, Visual Studio manages the versions of the SDK and runtime it installs. In previous versions, SDKs and runtimes were left on upgrade in case those versions were targeted or pinned with . We realized this was not ideal and might have left many unused .NET Core SDKs and runtimes installed on your machine. Going forward, we've updated the Visual Studio behavior. The .NET Core standalone SDK installer also began removing previous patch versions (the last two digits, for example 3.1.1xx) in .NET Core ...
Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 2 release now available
Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 2 is now available! Check out all the updates and improvements in this release.
How to write a Roslyn Analyzer
Roslyn analyzers inspect your code for style, quality, maintainability, design and other issues. Because they are powered by the .NET Compiler Platform, they can produce warnings in your code as you type even before you’ve finished the line. In other words, you don’t have to build your code to find out that you made a mistake. Analyzers can also surface an automatic code fix through the Visual Studio light bulb prompt that allows you to clean up your code immediately. With live, project-based code analyzers in Visual Studio, API authors can ship domain-specific code analysis as part of their NuGet packages. You ...
February ML.NET Model Builder Updates
With the ML.NET Model Builder, create custom machine learning models for scenarios like sentiment analysis, price prediction, and more without any machine learning experience and without leaving the .NET ecosystem!
.NET Core 3.0 will reach End of Life on March 3, 2020
.NET Core 3.0 will reach end of life on March 3, 2020. It is a “Current” release and is superseded by .NET Core 3.1, which was released on December 3, 2019. After that time, .NET Core patch updates will no longer include updated packages .NET Core 3.0. .NET Core 3.1 is a long-term supported (LTS) release (supported for at least 3 years). We recommend that you move any .NET Core 3.0 applications and environments to .NET Core 3.1 now. It’ll be an easy upgrade in most cases. Upgrade to .NET Core 3.1 Microsoft Support Policy Microsoft has a published support policy for .NET Core. It includes policies for two...
.NET Framework February 2020 Preview of Quality Rollup for Windows 10 1909, Windows 10 1903, Windows Server, version 1909 and Windows Server, version 1903
Today, we are releasing the February 2020 Preview of Quality Rollup for Windows 10 1909, Windows 10 1903, Windows Server, version 1909 and Windows Server, version 1903. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 WCF2 Workflow2 Winforms 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Getting the Update The Preview of Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Catalog You can get the update via the Microsoft Update C...