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Announcing F# support for .NET Core and .NET Standard projects in Visual Studio

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17
Phillip Carter
We're pleased to announce that Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 4 now supports F# projects targeting .NET Core, .NET Standard, and .NET Framework through the .NET Core SDK. Some of you have noticed various levels of this support in the first, second, and third previews. We still had a few work items left to complete when those were released, so...

Introducing API Analyzer

October 31, 2017 Oct 31, 2017 10/31/17
Immo Landwerth
This post was written by Olia Gavrysh. Have you ever wondered which APIs are deprecated and which should you use instead? Or have you ever used an API and then found out it didn't work on Mac or Linux? Have that ever happened to you too late when a major part of your code is already implemented and refactoring is way too hard? Both of ...

Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0

September 26, 2017 Sep 26, 2017 09/26/17
Phillip Carter
Earlier this year, I wrote about an update to the roadmap for F# and .NET Core. I had mentioned that there were a number of things you could build with F# and .NET Core today, such as web services. In this post, I'll walk through building a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0 using the Giraffe library. It's also worth noting that Giraffe ...

F# and .NET Core Roadmap Update

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Phillip Carter
Now that .NET Core 2.0 has been released, we wanted to take some time to talk about F# and .NET Core. F# and .NET Core 1.0 F# has been supported on .NET Core and .NET Standard since their 1.0 releases. In the months leading up to the release of .NET Core 1.0, Enrico Sada from the F# community worked with us and other teams at Microsoft to add...

Announcing .NET Standard 2.0

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Immo Landwerth
The .NET Standard 2.0 specification is now complete. It is supported in .NET Core 2.0, in the .NET Framework 4.6.1 and later versions, and in Visual Studio 15.3. You can start using .NET Standard 2.0 today. While this post demos .NET Standard in C#, it's also supported in Visual Basic and F#. For more details, take a look at the .NET ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.0

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Diego Vega
Today we are releasing the final version of Entity Framework Core 2.0, alongside .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0. Entity Framework (EF) Core is the lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework, the popular Object/Relational Mapping (O/RM) framework for .NET. Getting the bits Prerequisites In order to develop...

Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance (Updated for .NET Core 2.0)

August 9, 2017 Aug 9, 2017 08/9/17
Cesar De la Torre
(image) Updated for ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Nov. 15th 2017) Earlier this year, we published this eBook/Guide and sample application offering guidance for Architecting Modern Web Applications with ASP.NET Core and Microsoft Azure. We have recently published updates to the eBook (2nd edition) and sample application to bring them in line with the ...

Microservices and Docker containers: Architecture, Patterns and Development guidance (Updated for .NET Core 2.0)

August 2, 2017 Aug 2, 2017 08/2/17
Cesar De la Torre
(image) Updated for .NET Core 2.0 "wave" of technologies (Nov. 15th 2017) Earlier this year, we published this eBook and sample application offering guidance for architecting microservices and Docker containers based applications. We have recently published updates to the eBook (2nd edition) and sample application to bring them in line ...

Introducing Support for Brotli Compression

July 27, 2017 Jul 27, 2017 07/27/17
Immo Landwerth
This post was written by our software developer intern Denys Tsomenko, who worked on a Brotli compression library during his internship. Modern web-pages are getting larger and larger with huge CSS, HTML and JavaScript files. But the Internet connection isn't always good and pages can load slowly. Web pages also often contain other ...

.NET Application Architecture Guidance

July 26, 2017 Jul 26, 2017 07/26/17
Cesar De la Torre
(image) The .NET Team has been producing guidance for building microservices and container based applications, web applications and Xamarin.Forms mobile apps. You can use this guidance to help build your applications according to accepted industry patterns with .NET and C#. We have heard many requests for this guidance over the last year...