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.NET Core 2.2 will reach End of Life on December 23, 2019

December 5, 2019 Dec 5, 2019 12/5/19
Lee Coward
.NET Core 2.2 was released on December 4, 2018. As a non-LTS ("Current") release, it is supported for three months after the next release. .NET Core 3.0 was released on September 23, 2019. As a result, .NET Core 2.2 is supported until December 23, 2019. After that time, .NET Core patch updates will no longer include updated packages of ...

.NET Core November 2019 Updates – 2.1.14, 2.2.8, and 3.0.1

November 19, 2019 Nov 19, 2019 11/19/19
Jamshed Damkewala
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core November 2019 Update. These updates only contain non-security fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a Visual Studio user, there are MSBuild version requirements so use only the .NET Core SDK supported for each Visual Studio version. Information needed to...

Building Modern Cloud Applications using Pulumi and .NET Core

November 11, 2019 Nov 11, 2019 11/11/19
.NET Team
This is a guest post from the Pulumi team. Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code tool that helps developers and infrastructure teams work better together to create, deploy, and manage cloud applications using their favorite languages. For more information, see https://pulumi.com/dotnet. We are excited to announce .NET Core support ...

Continuously deploy and monitor your UWP, WPF, and Windows Forms app with App Center

October 31, 2019 Oct 31, 2019 10/31/19
Winnie Li (MSFT)
App Center is an integrated developer solution with the mission of helping developers build better apps. Last week, we announced General Availability support of distribute, analytics and diagnostics service for WPF and Windows Forms desktop applications. We also expanded our existing UWP offerings to include crash and error reporting for ...

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19
Daniel Roth
ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Today we are thrilled to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0! .NET Core 3.0 is ready for production use, and is loaded with lots of great new features for building amazing web apps with ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Some of the big new features in this release of ASP.NET Core include...

Hardware Intrinsics in .NET Core

September 3, 2019 Sep 3, 2019 09/3/19
Tanner Gooding [MSFT]
Several years ago, we decided that it was time to support SIMD code in .NET. We introduced the System.Numerics namespace with , , , , and related types. These types expose a general-purpose API for creating, accessing, and operating on them using hardware vector instructions (when available). They also provide a software fallback for when...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 8

August 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019 08/13/19
Diego Vega
The Preview 8 versions of the EF Core 3.0 package and the EF 6.3 package are now available for download from nuget.org. New previews of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available today. Please install these previews to validate that all the functionality required by your applications is available and works correctly...

Update on .NET Standard adoption

August 7, 2019 Aug 7, 2019 08/7/19
Immo Landwerth
It's about two years ago that I announced .NET Standard 2.0. Since then we've been working hard to increase the set of .NET Standard-based libraries for .NET. This includes many of the BCL components, such as the Windows Compatibility Pack, but also other popular libraries, such as the JSON.NET, the Azure SDK, or the AWS SDK. In this blog post...

Improving .NET Core installation in Visual Studio and on Windows

August 5, 2019 Aug 5, 2019 08/5/19
Lee Coward
Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 and .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 improve the installation experience of .NET Core on Windows. The goal is to reduce the number of .NET Core versions that might be on a machine. The improvements are based on customer feedback and our own experiences as well as laying the groundwork for future improvements. .NET Core ...