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The week in .NET – 06/07/2016

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 5/31/2016. DotNetConf 7-9 June Are you ready to rediscover .NET? Well, dotnetConf is back! (image) Immerse yourself in the world of .NET and join our live stream for 3 days of free online content June 7 - 9 featuring speakers from the .NET Community and Microsoft product teams. Watch ...

The week in .NET – 5/31/2016

May 31, 2016 May 31, 2016 05/31/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 5/24/2016. DotNetConf 7-9 June Are you ready to rediscover .NET? Well, dotnetConf is back! (image) Immerse yourself in the world of .NET and join our live stream for 3 days of free online content June 7 - 9 featuring speakers from the .NET Community and Microsoft product teams. Watch ...

Changes to Project.json

May 23, 2016 May 23, 2016 05/23/16
Bertrand Le Roy
This post was written by Scott Hunter. Last week we announced the schedule for RC2 / RTM of .NET Core and ASP.NET. Now that we have shipped RC2 I want to give more details on the .NET Core tooling moving from .xproj / project.json to .csproj / MSBuild. MSBuild When the ASP.NET team started building ASP.NET 5 (now ASP.NET Core) one of the key ...

The week in .NET – 5/16/2016

May 17, 2016 May 17, 2016 05/17/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 5/10/2016. We shipped! Yesterday, we released ASP.NET Core RC2, .NET Core RC2, and the preview 1 of the associated SDK. We also released Entity Framework Core RC2. We also have a new .NET web site that you can reach using the simple dot.net URL. On.NET Last week on the...

Announcing Entity Framework Core RC2

May 16, 2016 May 16, 2016 05/16/16
Rowan Miller
Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core RC2 available. This coincides with the release of .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2. EF Core, formerly known as EF7 Between RC1 and RC2, we changed from Entity Framework 7 to Entity Framework Core ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core RC2

May 16, 2016 May 16, 2016 05/16/16
Rowan Miller
Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core RC2 available. This coincides with the release of .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2. EF Core, formerly known as EF7 Between RC1 and RC2, we changed from Entity Framework 7 to Entity Framework Core ...

The week in .NET – 5/10/2016

May 10, 2016 May 10, 2016 05/10/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 5/3/2016. On.NET Last week in On .NET, we had the pleasure to speak with Andy De George about SadConsole, his text-based gaming engine. This week's guest is still TBD. Post of the week: Stack Overflow - How we do deployment This week, I want to do something exceptional for an exceptional post...

Tooling to Facilitate Framework Migrations

May 5, 2016 May 5, 2016 05/5/16
Bertrand Le Roy
This post was written by Mike Rousos, a software engineer on the .NET team. Introduction In this recent post, Taylor introduced the .NET Framework Compatibility Diagnostics, a set of Roslyn-based code analyzers for detecting when an app is likely to encounter compatibility issues between two versions of the .NET Framework. This article gives a...

The week in .NET – 5/3/2016

May 3, 2016 May 3, 2016 05/3/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/27/2016. Evolve conference Xamarin Evolve, the largest cross-platform mobile event in the world, happened last week. The .NET team was there to celebrate all things Xamarin with our good friends, and now colleagues. All the sessions can be watched on YouTube, with an incredible cast of ...

The week in .NET – 5/3/2016

May 3, 2016 May 3, 2016 05/3/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 4/27/2016. Evolve conference Xamarin Evolve, the largest cross-platform mobile event in the world, happened last week. The .NET team was there to celebrate all things Xamarin with our good friends, and now colleagues. All the sessions can be watched on YouTube, with an incredible cast of ...