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We're back for a new year of .NET! For this first week of 2016, we're off to a great start with two packages and lots of interesting posts.To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 12/29/2015.On.NETThis week on our On.NET live YouTube show, we'll speak with Mads Torgersen, probably mostly about C#. Please feel free to send me questions in ad...

We have a short post this week, as many people are on vacation, including me. Unsurprisingly, no .NET user group has events for this week, so we'll skip the section this time. As always, this weekly post couldn't exist without community contributions, and I'd like to thank all those who sent links and tips. You can participate too. Did you write...

Last week, we had a great time with Miguel de Icaza on the first episode of our new live YouTube show On.NET. On future episodes of the show, we want to have guests who represent every facet of the .NET community. If there's somebody you'd like to see on the show, please let us know! We won't have a show this week or next week because of the hol...

We have some great content and news for you this week. I can't emphasize enough that this weekly post couldn't exist without community contributions, and I'd like to thank all those who sent links and tips. Keep them coming! In a way, this is an open source blog post series ;) The first piece of news I want to share is that the posts are being t...

Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. As previously announced, starting January 12, 2016 Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, technical support or hotfixes for .NET 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1 frameworks. All other framework versions, including 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1, will be supported for the duration...

Welcome to the second "The Week in .NET" post. It was great to see how well the first post was received. Thanks to all who sent messages of encouragement and contributions to this week's post. If you would like to participate too, if you wrote a great blog post, or just read one, if you want to show an amazing new contribution, if you've written a ...

The model to leverage updated versions of C# or VB in web apps has changed over the past few years. In the past to leverage a new version of C# or VB you would get the runtime and build tools by installing the .NET Framework. With Visual Studio 2015 and the latest version of MSBuild this is no longer needed. You can decide which applications levera...

This is a guest post by Krzysztof Cieślak, an F# community developer and contributor to the Ionide project including its Visual Studio Code extension. To learn more about F# and engage with the community, head to fsharp.org. To learn more about the Ionide project, head to ionide.io.Ionide is a suite of packages for the Atom editor that aims to...

This is our first "The Week in .NET" post. Our objective in writing this is to provide more regular updates about what the team and core contributors have been working on, and to give a community heartbeat, in the form of a list of interesting links. Of course, if you wrote a great blog post, or just read one, if you want to show a great new contri...

Hold on to your hats, cowboys and cowgirls! A lot of exciting things are coming out of the .NET Managed Languages team for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. Read on to learn more about new IDE features, interactive C#, new code analysis management, Visual F# improvements, and the new F5 experience for Roslyn open source development. You can now right-...