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Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 RC 1

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Diego Vega
Today, we are excited to announce that the first release candidate of EF Core 2.1 is available, alongside .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 RC 1, for broad testing, and now also for production use! Go live support EF Core 2.1 RC1 is a "go live" release, which means once you test that your application works correctly with RC1, you can ...

Blazor 0.3.0 experimental release now available

May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 05/2/18
Daniel Roth
Blazor 0.3.0 is now available! This release includes important bug fixes and many new feature enhancements. New features in this release (details below): A full list of the changes in this release can be found in the Blazor 0.3.0 release notes. Get Blazor 0.3.0 To get setup with Blazor 0.3.0: To install the Blazor templates...

.NET Highlights in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 4

April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18
.NET Team
As you know we continue to incrementally improve Visual Studio 2017 (version 15), and our 7th significant update is currently well under way with the 4th preview shipping today. As we’re winding down the preview, we’d like to stop and take the time to tell you about all of the great updates that are coming in Visual Studio version 15.7 for...

Blazor 0.2.0 release now available

April 17, 2018 Apr 17, 2018 04/17/18
Daniel Roth
Just a few weeks ago we announced the first preview release of an experimental web UI framework called Blazor. Blazor enables full-stack web development using C# and WebAssembly. So far thousands of web developers have taken on the challenge to try out Blazor and done some pretty remarkable things: The feedback and support from the ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 Preview 2

April 11, 2018 Apr 11, 2018 04/11/18
Diego Vega
Today we’re releasing the second preview of EF Core 2.1, alongside .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 2. Thank you so much to everyone who has tried our early builds and has helped shape this release with their feedback and code contributions! The new preview bits are now available in NuGet as individual packages, ...

ASP.NET Core manageability and Application Insights improvements

March 22, 2018 Mar 22, 2018 03/22/18
Sergey Kanzhelev
There are many great investments on the ASP.NET Core 2.1 roadmap. These investments make ASP.NET Core applications easier to write, host, test, and make security and standards compliant. This blog post talks about areas of investments in manageability and monitoring space. It covers ASP.NET Core, .NET, and Application Insights SDK ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 Preview 1

February 27, 2018 Feb 27, 2018 02/27/18
Diego Vega
Today we are releasing the first preview of EF Core 2.1, alongside .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 1. The new bits are available in NuGet as part of the individual packages, and as part of the ASP.NET Core meta-packages (both Microsoft.AspNetCore.All and the new Microsoft.AspNetCore.App), and included in the .NET Core ...

Entity Framework Core 2.1 Roadmap

February 2, 2018 Feb 2, 2018 02/2/18
Diego Vega
As mentioned in the announcement of the .NET Core 2.1 roadmap earlier today, at this point we know the overall shape of our next release and we have decided on a general schedule for it. As we approach the release of our first preview later this month, we also wanted to expand on what we have planned for Entity Framework Core 2.1. New ...

64 bit ASP.NET Core on Azure App Service

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
When creating an Azure App Service .NET Core is already pre-installed. However, only the 32 bit .NET runtime is installed. In this post we will look at a  few ways that you can get a 64 bit runtime on Azure App Service During the 2.1 timeframe we are hoping to have both 32 and 64 bit runtimes installed as well as enabling the portal ...

Testing ASP.NET Core MVC web apps in-memory

December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17
Daniel Roth
This post was written and submitted by Javier Calvarro Nelson, a developer on the ASP.NET Core MVC team Testing is an important part of the development process of any application. In this blog post we are going to explore how we can test ASP.NET Core MVC applications using an in-memory server. This approach has several advantages: The...