.NET Blog

Free. Cross-platform. Open source. A developer platform for building all your apps.

.NET - .NET Blog

Announcing Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework for Windows 10 October 2018 Update

September 19, 2018 Sep 19, 2018 09/19/18
Brett Lopez [MSFT]
We deliver .NET Framework updates nearly every month, through Windows Update and other distribution channels. We are making changes to the way that we deliver those updates. We’ll soon start delivering a Cumulative Update for .NET Framework alongside the Windows 10 Cumulative Update, starting with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. This new...

Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3646

September 17, 2018 Sep 17, 2018 09/17/18
Jamshed Damkewala
Today, we are happy to share an Early Access build for the .NET Framework 4.8. This includes an updated .NET 4.8 runtime as well as the .NET 4.8 Developer Pack (a a single package that bundles the .NET Framework 4.8 runtime, the .NET 4.8 Targeting Pack, and the .NET Framework 4.8 SDK). Please help us ensure this is a high quality and ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.2 Preview 2 and the preview of the Cosmos DB provider and spatial extensions for EF Core

September 12, 2018 Sep 12, 2018 09/12/18
Diego Vega
Today we are making EF Core 2.2 Preview 2 available, together with a preview of our data provider for Cosmos DB and new spatial extensions for our SQL Server and in-memory providers. Obtaining the preview The preview bits are available on NuGet, and also as part of ASP.NET Core 2.2 Preview 2 and the .NET Core SDK 2.2 Preview 2, also ...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview2 now available

September 12, 2018 Sep 12, 2018 09/12/18
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
Today we’re very happy to announce that the second preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. We’ve been working hard on this release over the past months, along with many folks from the community, and it’s now ready for a wider audience to try it out and provide the feedback that...

Introduction to Azure Durable Functions

September 5, 2018 Sep 5, 2018 09/5/18
Maxime Rouiller
Azure Durable Functions is a new programming model based on Microsoft serverless' platform Azure Functions. It allows you to write a workflow as code and have the execution run with the scalability and the reliability of serverless with high throughput. Scenario Initially, I wanted to index data from GitHub repositories. I explained it all...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: Endpoint Routing

August 27, 2018 Aug 27, 2018 08/27/18
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
Endpoint Routing in 2.2 What is it? We're making a big investment in routing starting in 2.2 to make it interoperate more seamlessly with middleware. For 2.2 this will start with us making a few changes to the routing model, and adding some minor features. In 3.0 the plan is to introduce a model where routing and middleware operate together ...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: SignalR Java Client

August 23, 2018 Aug 23, 2018 08/23/18
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
This post was authored by Mikael Mengistu. In ASP.NET Core 2.2 we are introducing a Java Client for SignalR. The first preview of this new client is available now. This client supports connecting to an ASP.NET Core SignalR Server from Java code, including Android apps. The API for the Java client is very similar to that of the already ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
Diego Vega
Today we are excited to announce the release of Entity Framework (EF) Core 2.1. This is the latest production-ready release of our open-source and cross-platform data access technology. We are releasing today alongside .NET Core 2.1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1. EF Core 2.1 targets .NET Standard 2.0 and so also runs on .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Framework...

A Penny Saved is a Ton of Serverless Compute Earned

May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018 05/21/18
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Scott Guthrie recently shared one of my favorite anecdotes on his Azure Red Shirt Tour. A Microsoft customer regularly invokes 1 billion (yes, that’s with a “B”) Azure Functions per day. The customer reached out to support after the first month thinking there was a bug in the billing system, only to find out that the $72 was in fact ...