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Previous posts: Open-source project of the week: Let's Encrypt Azure Web App Renewer There's a growing consensus that all web sites should transition now to be encrypted with HTTPS. This comes at a cost, and with the friction associated with acquiring and renewing certificates. The problem of cost is now addressed by Let's Encrypt, but the fri...

Today, we released the first Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4. This includes an update to the UWP tooling that supports .NET Standard 2.0. In this post, I'll outline what this means for UWP development with .NET. Prerequisites In order to use .NET Standard 2.0 in UWP, you need to target Fall Creators Update (FCU) as the minimum version ...

Previous posts: Visual Studio extension of the week: Project File Tools The Project File Tools Visual Studio extension provides package name and version IntelliSense, tooltips for packages, and more, when editing a file in Visual Studio. The extension just got updated. Get it from the Visual Studio Marketplace. Interview of the wee...

Previous posts: .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, and Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 launched! This is a week to celebrate for the .NET community, as .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, and Entity Framework 2.0 shipped! We're also getting an update to Visual Studio 2017 with lots of improvements for .NET Core developers. Read th...

Now that .NET Core 2.0 has been released, we wanted to take some time to talk about F# and .NET Core. F# and .NET Core 1.0 F# has been supported on .NET Core and .NET Standard since their 1.0 releases. In the months leading up to the release of .NET Core 1.0, Enrico Sada from the F# community worked with us and other teams at Microsoft to add supp...

Previous posts: Tool of the week: Rezoom.SQL Rezoom.SQL is an F# ORM for SQL databases. It integrates with the F# compiler via a generative type provider to statically typecheck its own dialect of SQL. It knows how to translate this SQL dialect to various backends. Currently it supports SQLite, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. The type provider mak...

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 Frame...

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 not hav...

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-properties...

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 Parser...