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An Introduction to DataFrame

Prashanth GovindarajanDecember 16, 2019Dec 16, 201912/16/19

Last month, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks, and showed how to use them to work with .NET for Apache Spark and ML.NET. Today, we're announcing the preview of a DataFrame type for .NET to make data exploration easy. If you've used Python to manipulate data in notebooks, you'll already be familiar with the concept of a DataFrame.

Update on .NET Standard adoption

Immo Landwerth [MSFT]August 7, 2019Aug 7, 201908/7/19

It's about two years ago that I announced .NET Standard 2.0. Since then we've been working hard to increase the set of .NET Standard-based libraries for .NET. This includes many of the BCL components, such as the Windows Compatibility Pack, but also other popular libraries, such as the JSON.NET, the Azure SDK, or the AWS SDK. In this blog post

How to port desktop applications to .NET Core 3.0

Olia GavryshFebruary 26, 2019Feb 26, 201902/26/19

In this post, I will describe how to port a desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core. I picked a WinForms application as an example. Steps for WPF application are similar and I'll describe what needs to be done different for WPF as we go. I will also show how you can keep using the WinForms designer in Visual Studio even though it

Open Sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF

karan nandwani msftDecember 10, 2018Dec 10, 201812/10/18

Today, we are excited to announce that we are open sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF. In the past, we open sourced XAML Behaviors for UWP which has been a great success and the Behaviors NuGet package has been downloaded over 500k times. One of the top community asks has been to support WPF in the same way. XAML Behaviors for WPF now ships as

Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks

Rich Lander [MSFT]December 4, 2018Dec 4, 201812/4/18

Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1. It is the first public release of .NET Core 3. We have some exciting new features to share and would love your feedback. You can develop .NET Core 3 applications with Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1, and Visual Studio Code. It will be supported in a later version of Visual Studio for Mac. Downloa

Announcing .NET Standard 2.1

Immo Landwerth [MSFT]November 5, 2018Nov 5, 201811/5/18

Since we shipped .NET Standard 2.0 about a year ago, we've shipped two updates to .NET Core 2.1 and are about to release .NET Core 2.2. It's time to update the standard to include some of the new concepts as well as a number of small improvements that make your life easier across the various implementations of .NET. Keep reading to learn m

Announcing the Windows Compatibility Pack for .NET Core

Immo Landwerth [MSFT]November 16, 2017Nov 16, 201711/16/17

Porting existing code to .NET Core used to be quite hard because the available API set was very small. In .NET Core 2.0, we already made this much easier, thanks to .NET Standard 2.0. Today, we're happy to announce that we made it even easier with the Windows Compatibility Pack, which provides access to an additional 20,000 APIs via a single

Introducing API Analyzer

Immo Landwerth [MSFT]October 31, 2017Oct 31, 201710/31/17

This post was written by Olia Gavrysh. Have you ever wondered which APIs are deprecated and which should you use instead? Or have you ever used an API and then found out it didn't work on Mac or Linux? Have that ever happened to you too late when a major part of your code is already implemented and refactoring is way too hard? Both of thes

Introducing Support for Brotli Compression

Immo Landwerth [MSFT]July 27, 2017Jul 27, 201707/27/17

This post was written by our software developer intern Denys Tsomenko, who worked on a Brotli compression library during his internship. Modern web-pages are getting larger and larger with huge CSS, HTML and JavaScript files. But the Internet connection isn't always good and pages can load slowly. Web pages also often contain other materia

.NET Fringe: A Great Role Model for Community Oriented Conferences

Immo Landwerth [MSFT]June 12, 2017Jun 12, 201706/12/17

A few of us just went to a smaller .NET conference in Portland, called .NET Fringe. For me, it was the third time I attended .NET Fringe. I've realized that this conference has gained a special place in my heart, so thought it would be worthwhile writing up why that is. My goal isn't to convince you to attend .NET Fringe per se, but to outl

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