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Announcing UWP Support for .NET Standard 2.0

October 10, 2017 Oct 10, 2017 10/10/17
Immo Landwerth
This post was mostly written by Rich Lander with contributions from Immo Landwerth. Today, we are releasing huge updates to UWP for .NET developers. The really big improvement is adding support for .NET Standard 2.0. UWP developers now have access to ~ 20k more APIs. This release brings UWP to partity with the other .NET implementations that...

UWP & .NET Standard 2.0: A preview is now available!

August 25, 2017 Aug 25, 2017 08/25/17
Immo Landwerth
Today, we released the first Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4. This includes an update to the UWP tooling that supports .NET Standard 2.0. In this post, I'll outline what this means for UWP development with .NET. Prerequisites In order to use .NET Standard 2.0 in UWP, you need to target Fall Creators Update (FCU) as the minimum ...

Announcing .NET Standard 2.0

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Immo Landwerth
The .NET Standard 2.0 specification is now complete. It is supported in .NET Core 2.0, in the .NET Framework 4.6.1 and later versions, and in Visual Studio 15.3. You can start using .NET Standard 2.0 today. While this post demos .NET Standard in C#, it's also supported in Visual Basic and F#. For more details, take a look at the .NET ...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Jeffrey Fritz
The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm.  For a full list of updates, you can read the release notes and you can check the list of changed ...

Introducing ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 2

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Jeffrey Fritz
At Build 2017, we released an initial preview version of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  Over the last two months we have incorporated your feedback and added a number of new features.  We now have a Preview 2 version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework and Visual Studio tools for you to try.  In this post, we will review some of the new features in this ...

.NET Core 2 and Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) Preview 2

June 12, 2017 Jun 12, 2017 06/12/17
Lee Coward
Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) Preview 2 was recently released which includes .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1, our latest production releases of .NET Core. You will need to install the .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 SDK to develop .NET Core 2.0 applications using Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) Preview 2 . We are working on .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 which will be ...

.NET Framework May 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10

May 26, 2017 May 26, 2017 05/26/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
We just released a new Cumulative Quality Update for the .NET Framework. This update is specific to Windows 10 Creators Update. Previously released security and quality updates are included in this release. These quality updates will be made available to other .NET Framework and Windows version combinations in Q3 2017. You can read the .NET...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0.0-Preview1 and Updates for .NET Web Developers

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Jeffrey Fritz
The ASP.NET team is pleased to share the first preview version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework.  In this post, we’ll look at the new features and changes to the web framework that were announced at the Build 2017 keynote and sessions.  We will also look at some other updates that were published for ASP.NET 4.7 and WCF. ASP.NET Core 2.0....

Announcing New ASP.NET Core and Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2017

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Jeffrey Fritz
We are pleased to announce updates to our ASP.NET tools, ASP.NET Core tools, Container tools, and frameworks that are shipping as part of the Visual Studio 2017 release today.  We have made significant updates to the web development tools to make them easier for you to use and help make you more productive in your daily web development tasks...

December 2016 Update for .NET Core 1.0

December 13, 2016 Dec 13, 2016 12/13/16
KendraHavens
Today, we are releasing a new set of reliability and quality updates for .NET Core 1.0. This month's update is our second Long Term Support (LTS) update and includes updated versions of multiple packages in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core. We recommend everyone on the 1.0.* LTS track move to this update immediately. How to ...