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Immutable collections are now RC

September 12, 2013 Sep 12, 2013 09/12/13
Immo Landwerth
Over the past several months, we’ve been working on a new set of collection types that offer an immutable design. Today we are happy to announce that we are one step closer to a stable version of this work: we’ve just shipped the release candidate (1.0.23 RC) of the Microsoft.Bcl.Immutable NuGet package. (image) Because we could...

Updated NuGet Support in Visual Studio 2012.4

September 3, 2013 Sep 3, 2013 09/3/13
Immo Landwerth
As Brian Harry recently announced, there will be a Visual Studio 2012 Update 4. With RC2, we’ve updated the NuGet support. In this blog post, I’ll summarize those improvements. Updated NuGet Client The RTM version of Visual Studio 2012 included a fairly old version of the NuGet client (2.0). Although the NuGet team regularly ...

NuGet Package Restore with Team Foundation Build

August 27, 2013 Aug 27, 2013 08/27/13
Immo Landwerth
Note: This post is now also part of the official NuGet documentation. In this post, I’ll provide a walkthrough on how to use package restore with Team Foundation Build with both, git as well TF version control. In our previous blog post on how we improved package restore, I showed that NuGet 2.7 and Microsoft.Bcl.Build made restoring ...

Portable Compression is now stable

August 22, 2013 Aug 22, 2013 08/22/13
Immo Landwerth
Today we are happy to announce that our portable compression library is now available as a stable NuGet package. Microsoft.Bcl.Compression Microsoft.Bcl.Compression provides the following APIs in a portable fashion: It’s supported on the following platforms: .NET 4.5 and .NET for Windows Store apps already ship ...

Improved Package Restore

August 22, 2013 Aug 22, 2013 08/22/13
Immo Landwerth
As we’ve previously explained we receive various reports on how our NuGet packages don’t play nicely with NuGet’s package restore feature. In this blog post I’ll talk about an update we shipped to our infrastructure package Microsoft.Bcl.Build that reduces the impact. The Issue To recap, some of our packages need to participate in ...

Documentation updates for .NET 4.5.1

August 7, 2013 Aug 7, 2013 08/7/13
.NET Team
This post describes the changes that we’ve made to .NET Framework documentation for the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Cheryl Simmons, who works on the .NET Framework documentation team. In the recent preview release of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we changed the way we update the documentation for the .NET Framework, refreshed ...

Documentation updates for .NET 4.5.1

August 7, 2013 Aug 7, 2013 08/7/13
.NET Team
This post describes the changes that we’ve made to .NET Framework documentation for the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Cheryl Simmons, who works on the .NET Framework documentation team. In the recent preview release of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we changed the way we update the documentation for the .NET Framework, refreshed ...

Documentation updates for .NET 4.5.1

August 7, 2013 Aug 7, 2013 08/7/13
.NET Team
This post describes the changes that we’ve made to .NET Framework documentation for the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Cheryl Simmons, who works on the .NET Framework documentation team. In the recent preview release of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we changed the way we update the documentation for the .NET Framework, refreshed ...

HttpClient 2.2 is now stable

July 17, 2013 Jul 17, 2013 07/17/13
Immo Landwerth
As promised, we’ve just pushed the RTM version of HttpClient 2.2 to NuGet. This version adds support for automatic decompression. As announced here, this doesn’t require a dependency on Microsoft.Bcl.Compression. This allowed us to support automatic decompression on more platforms and without forcing your projects to change the CPU...

HttpClient 2.2 is now RC

July 10, 2013 Jul 10, 2013 07/10/13
Immo Landwerth
Today we are happy to announce the next step in providing a portable HttpClient with automatic decompression: we just pushed the RC version to NuGet. From Beta to RTM We haven’t changed much since the beta we shipped three weeks ago – simply because we didn’t have to. In general we follow these steps when shipping ...