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Announcing the EventSource NuGet Package – Write to the Windows Event Log

August 9, 2013 Aug 9, 2013 08/9/13

.NET Team

We are announcing the EventSource NuGet package, which enables fast app tracing to the Windows Event Log, including in production. This post was written by Cosmin Radu, a software developer on the .NET Runtime team We know that you want to build high-quality software. That can be a challenging task if your desktop or web app interacts ...

HttpClient 2.2 is now stable

July 17, 2013 Jul 17, 2013 07/17/13

Immo Landwerth

As promised, we’ve just pushed the RTM version of HttpClient 2.2 to NuGet. This version adds support for automatic decompression. As announced here, this doesn’t require a dependency on Microsoft.Bcl.Compression. This allowed us to support automatic decompression on more platforms and without forcing your projects to change the CPU...

HttpClient 2.2 is now RC

July 10, 2013 Jul 10, 2013 07/10/13

Immo Landwerth

Today we are happy to announce the next step in providing a portable HttpClient with automatic decompression: we just pushed the RC version to NuGet. From Beta to RTM We haven’t changed much since the beta we shipped three weeks ago – simply because we didn’t have to. In general we follow these steps when shipping ...

Get the latest .NET Bits

June 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013 06/27/13

.NET Team

We maintain a set of pages that make it easier for you to find all the .NET Framework versions, SDKs, and targeting packs that you can take advantage of in your .NET apps, as we mentioned last year on the .NET blog. We recently redesigned the pages and added more SDKs for you to download. You may even find some SDKs to try that you didn’t ...

Please welcome ImmutableArray

June 24, 2013 Jun 24, 2013 06/24/13

Immo Landwerth

We’ve just released an update to our immutable collection package which adds a new member to the family of immutable collection types: ImmutableArray<T>. In this post, I’ll talk about why we added another collection and how it relates to the existing types. I’ll also cover some minor updates we did to our package. ...

Update to HttpClient and Automatic Decompression

June 19, 2013 Jun 19, 2013 06/19/13

Immo Landwerth

Two weeks ago, we published a beta of HttpClient that provides support for automatic decompression. Since then, we’ve received a fair amount of feedback, especially around the fact that it relies on a native implementation of compression that isn’t available on the same platforms as HttpClient. Today, we’ve published another...

NuGet Package Restore Issues

June 12, 2013 Jun 12, 2013 06/12/13

Immo Landwerth

We’ve received several reports that our NuGet packages broke the NuGet package restore feature. In this post, I’ll explain what the issue is, how you can work around it, and finally how we plan on fixing this issue in the long term. The problem and solution Microsoft.Bcl.Build and Microsoft.Bcl.Compression require custom target ...

Portable Compression and HttpClient Working Together

June 6, 2013 Jun 6, 2013 06/6/13

Immo Landwerth

Today we’re happy to announce that we released two NuGet packages: Before we go into the details, let’s first take a look at why compression is particularly interesting for HttpClient. Compression and HttpClient We live in a world where we are permanently surrounded by devices, particularly smart phones. Apps that run on these ...