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Announcing the Release of EF Core 5.0

Jeremy LiknessNovember 10, 2020Nov 10, 202011/10/20

Announcing the release of EF Core 5.0, a full featured cross-platform version of Entity Framework that delivers the most requested features like Many-to-Many and Table-Per-Type.

Announcing Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 5 RC2

Jeremy LiknessOctober 13, 2020Oct 13, 202010/13/20

Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 gets closer to a final release. RC2 is now available with bug fixes and a go-live license.

Using GitHub Codespaces with .NET Core

Tim HeuerSeptember 22, 2020Sep 22, 202009/22/20

We've updated our support for developing .NET Core applications in GitHub Codespaces using Visual Studio. Read about the added support we have for editors, testing, debugging, and Azure. Sign up to be invited to the preview for GitHub Codespaces and Visual Studio support!

Debug Your .NET Core Apps in WSL 2 with Visual Studio

Nathan CarlsonSeptember 17, 2020Sep 17, 202009/17/20

The .NET Core Debugging with WSL 2 – Preview extension lets run and debug your .NET Core apps in WSL 2 from Visual Studio.

The future of .NET Standard

Immo LandwerthSeptember 15, 2020Sep 15, 202009/15/20

Since .NET 5 was announced, many of you have asked what this means for .NET Standard and whether it will still be relevant. In this post, I'm going to explain how .NET 5 improves code sharing and replaces .NET Standard. I'll also cover the cases where you still need .NET Standard.

Announcing Entity Framework Core (EFCore) 5.0 RC1

Jeremy LiknessSeptember 14, 2020Sep 14, 202009/14/20

Announcing Entity Framework EFCore 5.0 RC1, a "go-live" supported release. This release includes new features like many-to-many, property bags, event counters, required 1:1 dependents and the ability to intercept SaveChanges and listen to save events. It also includes improvements to model-building, migrations, and more.

.NET CLI Templates in Visual Studio

Tim HeuerSeptember 2, 2020Sep 2, 202009/2/20

If you are a template author for .NET Core templates and have been wanting to show up for Visual Studio users as well with little effort we have enabled a new preview feature for you! Visual Studio now has an option in preview to enable CLI-installed .NET Core templates to display as options in the New Project Dialog experience.

ARM64 Performance in .NET 5

Kunal PathakSeptember 2, 2020Sep 2, 202009/2/20

ARM64 performance work in .NET 5

Introducing the Half type!

Prashanth GovindarajanAugust 31, 2020Aug 31, 202008/31/20

The IEEE 754 specification defines many floating point types, including: binary16, binary32, binary64 and binary128. Most developers are familiar with binary32 (equivalent to float in C#) and binary64 (equivalent to double in C#). They provide a standard format to represent a wide range of values with a precision acceptable for many ...

Big Plans for Big Data and .NET for Spark

Jeremy LiknessAugust 31, 2020Aug 31, 202008/31/20

The .NET for Spark team is seeking your feedback to improve the experience of working with big data in .NET.

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