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Default implementations in interfaces

Mads TorgersenMay 14, 2019May 14, 201905/14/19

Default implementations in interfaces With last week's posts Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 and Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 3, the last major feature of C# 8.0 is now available in preview. A big impediment to software evolution has been the fact that you couldn't add new members to a public interface. You would break ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 4

Diego VegaApril 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19

Today, we are making the fourth preview of Entity Framework Core 3.0 available on NuGet, alongside .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 4. We encourage you to install this preview to test the new functionality and assess the impact of the included breaking changes. What’s new in EF Core 3.0 Preview 4? This preview includes...

Visual Studio 2019 .NET productivity

KendraHavensApril 2, 2019Apr 2, 201904/2/19

Your friendly neighborhood .NET productivity team (aka. Roslyn) focuses a lot on improving the .NET coding experience. Sometimes it’s the little refactorings and code fixes that really improve your workflow. You may have seen many improvements in the previews, but for all of you who were eagerly awaiting the GA release here’s a few ...

Handling a new era in the Japanese calendar in .NET

Ron Petrusha (MSFT)April 2, 2019Apr 2, 201904/2/19

Typically, calendar eras represent long time periods. In the Gregorian calendar, for example, the current era spans (as of this year) 2,019 years. In the Japanese calendar, however, a new era begins with the reign of a new emperor. On April 30, 2019, Emperor Akihito is expected to abdicate, which will bring to an end the Heisei era. On the ...

Announcing F# 4.6

Phillip CarterMarch 29, 2019Mar 29, 201903/29/19

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) ...

Help us make the .NET Architecture guides better for you!

Nish AnilFebruary 13, 2019Feb 13, 201902/13/19

Over the last couple of years, we worked with experts to create some incredible architecture guides & reference samples for .NET developers. We focused on Microservices Architecture, Modernizing existing .NET apps, DevOps best practices, ASP.NET web apps, Azure cloud apps, Mobile apps with Xamarin and more. We're running a survey ...

Submit to the Applied F# Challenge!

Phillip CarterFebruary 5, 2019Feb 5, 201902/5/19

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 ...

Debugging .NET Apps with Time Travel Debugging (TTD)

Felipe Fujiy PessotoJanuary 25, 2019Jan 25, 201901/25/19

When you are debugging an application, there are many tools and techniques you can use, like logs, memory dumps and Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). In this post, we will talk about Time Travel Debugging, a tool used by Microsoft Support and product teams and more advanced users, but I encourage everyone to try this approach when diagnosing ...

Announcing F# 4.6 Preview

Phillip CarterJanuary 24, 2019Jan 24, 201901/24/19

F# 4.6 is now fully released. See the announcement blog post for more. We're excited to announce that Visual Studio 2019 will ship a new version of F# when it releases: F# 4.6! F# 4.6 is a smaller update to the F# language, making it a "true" point-release. As with previous versions of F#, F# 4.6 was developed entirely via an open RFC (...

Help us help you! What desktop apps are you bringing to .NET Core 3.0?

Olia GavryshJanuary 17, 2019Jan 17, 201901/17/19

Windows Desktop applications are coming to .NET Core. The recently released .NET Core 3.0 Preview 1 version includes WinForms and WPF support. To make .NET Core 3.0 viable for as many of you as possible, we have created a survey to understand the types of desktop applications you want to build with .NET Core. Based on the information you ...

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