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Welcome to the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access!

August 7, 2017 Aug 7, 2017 08/7/17
Preeti Krishna - MSFT
Last Updated: 9/28/2017 Today, we are happy to share the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access build with the Developer Pack. The .NET Framework 4.7.1 Developer Pack lets developers build applications that target the .NET Framework 4.7.1 by using Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015 or other IDEs. This is a single package that bundles the .NET...

The week in .NET – Nuke, Warden.NET, .NET in Bangalore, and links!

August 1, 2017 Aug 1, 2017 08/1/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: Tool of the week: Nuke Nuke is a cross-platform build automation system with C# DSL, much like Cake. It features auto-completion, refactoring, and navigation in all IDEs. Nuke avoids complexity, and integrates as a normal project. Package of the week: Warden.NET The System.Diagnostics.Process class while useful does ...

The week in .NET – MIST, F# in NYC, and links

July 26, 2017 Jul 26, 2017 07/26/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: Package of the week: MIST The interface is essential to many applications such as Windows Forms or WPF data binding. Implementing it can however be fastidious, and involves quite a lot of boilerplate code. MIST simplifies this using IL weaving and a custom Visual Studio build task. With MIST, you can use simple auto-...

The week in .NET – Command Line Parser Library, .NET South East

July 18, 2017 Jul 18, 2017 07/18/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: Package of the week: Command Line Parser Library Command-line applications typically accept arguments and options, and expose a page describing them. Parsing those arguments and options is a repetitive task that .NET provides little help for out of the box, beyond the argument to . Giacomo Stelluti Scala's Command Line ...

The week in .NET – Links!

July 11, 2017 Jul 11, 2017 07/11/17
Bertrand Le Roy
This week's post will exceptionally be made of links only, as I'm on vacation...Previous posts:.NETASP.NETC#F#There is more content available this week in F# Weekly. If you want to see more F# awesomeness, please check it out!XamarinAzureUWPDataAnd this is it for this week!Contribute to the week in .NETAs always, this weekly post couldn't ...

The week in .NET – Links!

July 4, 2017 Jul 4, 2017 07/4/17
Bertrand Le Roy
This week's post will exceptionally be made of links only, as I'm on vacation...Previous posts:.NETASP.NETC#F#There is more content available this week in F# Weekly. If you want to see more F# awesomeness, please check it out!XamarinAzureUWPDataAnd this is it for this week!Contribute to the week in .NETAs always, this weekly post couldn't ...

The week in .NET – .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit

June 27, 2017 Jun 27, 2017 06/27/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: .NET Conf, September 19-21. Call for Content is Open! (image) .NET Conf is a free, 3 day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. Over the course of the three days developers have a wide selection of live sessions that feature speakers from the community and .NET product teams. ...

The week in .NET – .NET Architecture: Microservices & Containers, On .NET with Omer Raviv on OzCode, Sprache

June 20, 2017 Jun 20, 2017 06/20/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: .NET Architecture – Microservices & Containers We recently added an Architecture Guidance page on the .NET Website. This new page pulls together architecture related resources for building different types of applications with .NET. We’ll be adding and updating content as it becomes available. The ...

The week in .NET – On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf

June 14, 2017 Jun 14, 2017 06/14/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: On .NET: Mattias Karlsson - Cake During the Microsoft Build conference, we recorded interviews with some of the attendees. Mattias Karlsson is a core contributor on Cake, the cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL. Package of the week: Topshelf Topshelf is a framework for hosting ...

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 is available on Windows Update, WSUS, and MU Catalog

June 13, 2017 Jun 13, 2017 06/13/17
Jamshed Damkewala
Last Updated: 9/14/2017 We are happy to announce the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 is now available on Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and the Microsoft Update (MU) Catalog for the following operating systems: Client platforms: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Version 1607) Server platforms: ...