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Blazor now in official preview!

April 18, 2019 Apr 18, 2019 04/18/19
Daniel Roth
With this newest Blazor release we're pleased to announce that Blazor is now in official preview! Blazor is no longer experimental and we are committing to ship it as a supported web UI framework including support for running client-side in the browser on WebAssembly. A little over a year ago we started the Blazor experimental project with ...

Announcing F# 4.6

March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019 03/29/19
Phillip Carter
We're excited to announce general availability of F# 4.6 and the F# tools for Visual Studio 2019! In this post, I'll show you how to get started, explain the F# 4.6 feature set, give you an update on the F# tools for Visual Studio, and talk about what we're doing next. F# 4.6 was developed entirely via an open RFC (requests for comments) ...

An update to C# versions and C# tooling

February 27, 2019 Feb 27, 2019 02/27/19
Phillip Carter
Starting with Visual Studio 2019 Preview 4, we'll be adjusting how C# versions are treated in .NET tooling. Firstly, we're adding two new Language Version (LangVersion) values: LatestMajor and Preview. Rad the post to see how they stack up with the currently supported list of values.

How to port desktop applications to .NET Core 3.0

February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19
Olia Gavrysh
In this post, I will describe how to port a desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core. I picked a WinForms application as an example. Steps for WPF application are similar and I'll describe what needs to be done different for WPF as we go. I will also show how you can keep using the WinForms designer in Visual Studio even though it ...

.NET Core February 2019 Updates – 1.0.14, 1.1.11, 2.1.8 and 2.2.2

February 12, 2019 Feb 12, 2019 02/12/19
Lee Coward
The latest .NET Core updates are available on the .NET Core download page. This update is also included in the Visual Studio 15.0.21 (.NET Core 1.0 and 1.1) and 15.9.7 (.NET Core 1.0, 1.1 and 2.1) updates, which is also releasing today. See the .NET Core release notes ( 1.0.14 | 1.1.11 | 2.1.8 | 2.2.2 ) for details on the release including a issues fixed and affected packages.

Submit to the Applied F# Challenge!

February 5, 2019 Feb 5, 2019 02/5/19
Phillip Carter
This post was written by Lena Hall, a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. F# Software Foundation has recently announced their new initiative — Applied F# Challenge! We encourage you to participate and send your submissions about F# on Azure through the participation form. Applied F# Challenge is a new initiative to ...