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The .NET team released a security bulletin and a security advisory today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-026 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2958732) This update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework ...
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. You c...
Eight months ago we asked you to provide feedbackon the features you want us to ship. And you didn’t disappoint! Since then, we’ve seen hundreds of Tweets, blog posts and user voice votes. It’s great to be part of such a thriving community. We are fully committed to improving the .NET ecosystem by being more open. To quote Habib from his Build t...
Processor speed no longer follows Moore’s law. So in order to optimize the performance of your applications, it’s increasingly important to embrace parallelization. Or, as Herb Sutter phrased it, the free lunch is over. You may think that task-based programming or offloading work to threads is already the answer. While multi-threading ...
At Build 2014 this week, we announced the next generation of .NET. The next generation will focus and deliver on two main themes: Core Innovation and cross-device apps. These themes are a direct result of your feedback, asking for new features in .NET and to make it easier to use .NET for all your apps. At Build 2014, we are releasing: ...
This post was written by Alok Shriram, Program Manager on the .NET Framework team. He will show you a significantly improved experience around .NET Reference Source. Today I'm very excited to announce that we have an awesome new experience to use the .NET Framework reference source. Browsing .NET Reference Source First of all, most people just w...
As part of our continued effort to bring greater transparency for our customers we are going to start posting here whenever we ship any security fixes for the .NET Framework, this is the first such post.The .NET team released a security bulletin earlier this week as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.Microsoft Security Bulletin M...
The February 2014 edition of MSDN magazine includes a great overview of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, written by Gaye Oncul Kok, a Program Manager on the .NET team. The article is a great way to learn about how Visual Studio 2013 and .NET Framework 4.5.1 make apps easier to write, and faster to run. Take a look at the article.
We are announcing the RTM of the EventSource NuGet package, which enables fast app tracing to the Windows Event Log, including in production. This post was written by Cosmin Radu, a software developer on the .NET Runtime team. Over the past several weeks we’ve been working on addressing some feedback we’ve received from our users and ad...
This post describes .NET NuGet library servicing support in the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Alok Shriram, a Program Manager on the .NET Core Framework Team. In the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we extended our .NET Framework security update capability to our NuGet libraries, enabling us to deliver security updates for those libraries on Mi...