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Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3694

namrata karnam November 28, 2018 Nov 28, 2018 11/28/18

We are happy to let you know that .NET Framework 4.8 is now feature complete and we have an early access build to share with you all! We will continue to stabilize this release and take more fixes over the coming months, and we would greatly appreciate it if you could help us ensure this is a high-quality release by trying it out and providing...

Welcome to C# 7.1

Mads Torgersen October 31, 2017 Oct 31, 2017 10/31/17

With C# we have always tended towards major releases: bundle a lot of features up, and release less frequently. We even went so far as routinely omitting the traditional ".0" when we talked about C# 6.0! In the C# 7.0 "wave" we are trying something new. Tools such as Visual Studio upgrade on a frequent cadence, and there's no longer a ...

Welcome to the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access!

Preeti Krishna - MSFT August 7, 2017 Aug 7, 2017 08/7/17

Last Updated: 9/28/2017 Today, we are happy to share the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access build with the Developer Pack. The .NET Framework 4.7.1 Developer Pack lets developers build applications that target the .NET Framework 4.7.1 by using Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015 or other IDEs. This is a single package that bundles the .NET...

.NET Announcements at Build 2015

Rich Lander [MSFT] April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15

Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the final version of the .NET Framework 4.6. At the Build conference today, Scott Guthrie announced the .NET Framework 4.6 RC and Visual Studio 2015 RC. He also announced important updates ...

.NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM => start coding

.NET Team October 17, 2013 Oct 17, 2013 10/17/13

Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework. Today, we’re announcing the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Visual Studio 2013 (Soma’s blog). You can ...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC

.NET Team September 9, 2013 Sep 9, 2013 09/9/13

Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Update: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM has been released and is available for download. The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC is now available. It comes with a go-live license, enabling you to deploy 4.5.1 apps in production. Here are the RC bits. ...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview

.NET Team June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13

Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework. Update: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM has been released and is available for download. The content below is still a great ...

.NET Memory Allocation Profiling with Visual Studio 2012

.NET Team April 4, 2013 Apr 4, 2013 04/4/13

This post was written by Stephen Toub, a frequent contributor to the Parallel Programming in .NET blog. He shows us how Visual Studio 2012 and an attention to detail can help you discover unnecessary allocations in your app that can prevent it from achieving higher performance. Visual Studio 2012 has a wealth of valuable functionality, ...

Asynchronous Programming for Windows Store Apps: .NET is up to the Task

Brandon Bray November 30, 2012 Nov 30, 2012 11/30/12

Programming with async and await is the driving force behind delivering “fast and fluid” user experiences. Compiler diagnostics for async APIs guide developers towards best practices – it’s a wonderful example of platform and tooling working together. Since the Windows Runtime uses a slightly different implementation for async ...

Scaling cloud apps with the .NET Framework 4.5

Brandon Bray November 13, 2012 Nov 13, 2012 11/13/12

The .NET Framework 4.5 is now available on Windows Azure. Thank you to everyone cheering for this moment. We’re just starting to see the possibilities that a rich developer framework like the .NET Framework and the cloud can have together. Richard Lander, a program manager for the Common Language Runtime, explains a few best practices ...

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