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.NET Framework December 5, 2018 Preview of Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019

December 5, 2018 Dec 5, 2018 12/5/18
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the December 5, 2018 Preview of .NET Framework Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019.For more information about the new Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019 please refer to this recent announcement.Quality and ReliabilityThis ...

Cross-platform Time Zones with .NET Core

November 13, 2018 Nov 13, 2018 11/13/18
christopher roberts msft
Developing applications that span multiple operating systems in .NET Core while working with Time Zone information can lead to unexpected results for developers not familiar with the differences in how operating systems manage Time Zones. In this post, we will explore those differences and the challenges they present.Reproducing the issue...

Understanding the Whys, Whats, and Whens of ValueTask

November 7, 2018 Nov 7, 2018 11/7/18
Stephen Toub - MSFT
The .NET Framework 4 saw the introduction of the System.Threading.Tasks namespace, and with it the Task class. This type and the derived Task<TResult> have long since become a staple of .NET programming, key aspects of the asynchronous programming model introduced with C# 5 and its async / await keywords. In this post, I'll ...

Using .NET Hardware Intrinsics API to accelerate machine learning scenarios

October 10, 2018 Oct 10, 2018 10/10/18
Dan Moseley
This week's blog post is by Brian Lui, one of our summer interns on the .NET team, who's been hard at work. Over to Brian:Hello everyone! This summer I interned in the .NET team, working on ML.NET, an open-source machine learning platform which enables .NET developers to build and use machine learning models in their .NET applications. ...

Update to SIMD Support

May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 05/13/14
Immo Landwerth
A month ago we announced support for SIMD. Today, we're announcing an update to "RyuJIT" and our NuGet package that exposes the SIMD programming model.Updates to the Microsoft.Bcl.Simd NuGet packageMore types for Vector<T>We've expanded the support of the Vector<T> types:Support for mutable vector typesWe've also changed ...
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Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.2

May 5, 2014 May 5, 2014 05/5/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases.Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework.We are happy to announce the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.2. It is a highly compatible, in-place update to the .NET Framework 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1. ...
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Get your libraries ready for Windows Phone 8.1

April 30, 2014 Apr 30, 2014 04/30/14
Immo Landwerth
Two weeks ago, we released the Windows Phone preview for developers. In this post, I’ll cover what this means for library and app developers.What this means for library developersAs a .NET developer you can target Windows Phone 8.1 via two platforms:Apps that target Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 can consume existing libraries and...
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Sharing code across platforms

April 21, 2014 Apr 21, 2014 04/21/14
Immo Landwerth
At Build we announced two great ways to re-use your code: the new Universal Windows apps, and the improved portable class libraries. They both help you reuse code across platforms.In this post, I’ll describe both options and how you can choose between them.OverviewWhy two options? The short answer is that shared projects are about ...
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