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Introducing Support for Brotli Compression

July 27, 2017 Jul 27, 2017 07/27/17
Immo Landwerth
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 ...

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

June 12, 2017 Jun 12, 2017 06/12/17
Immo Landwerth
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 ...

.NET Core Image Processing

January 19, 2017 Jan 19, 2017 01/19/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Image processing, and in particular image resizing, is a common requirement for web applications. As such, I wanted to paint a panorama of the options that exist for .NET Core to process images. For each option, I'll give a code sample for image resizing, and I'll outline interesting features. I'll conclude with a comparison of the performance...

December 2016 Update for .NET Core 1.0

December 13, 2016 Dec 13, 2016 12/13/16
KendraHavens
Today, we are releasing a new set of reliability and quality updates for .NET Core 1.0. This month's update is our second Long Term Support (LTS) update and includes updated versions of multiple packages in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core. We recommend everyone on the 1.0.* LTS track move to this update immediately. How to ...

Introducing .NET Standard

September 26, 2016 Sep 26, 2016 09/26/16
Immo Landwerth
Questions? Check out the .NET Standard FAQ. You can find the latest version of the compatibility matrix here. In my last post, I talked about how we want to make porting to .NET Core easier. In this post, I'll focus on how we're making this plan a reality with .NET Standard. We'll cover which APIs we plan to include, how cross-framework ...

What’s New in C# 7.0

August 24, 2016 Aug 24, 2016 08/24/16
Mads Torgersen
Update (4/2017): See New Features in C# 7.0, the update to this post. What follows is a description of all the planned language features in C# 7.0. With the release of Visual Studio "15" Preview 4, most of these features are coming alive. Now is a great time to take them for a spin and tell us your thoughts! C# 7.0 adds a number...

PowerShell is now open-source, and cross-platform

August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16
Bertrand Le Roy
The PowerShell team made a few announcements today: it's going open-source, and it's now available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. This is excellent news in itself, but the .NET team wanted to take the time to analyze what this means for .NET developers. First, the availability of PowerShell on Linux and macOS, while it doesn't aim at replacing ...

Making it easier to port to .NET Core

May 27, 2016 May 27, 2016 05/27/16
Immo Landwerth
In my last post, I talked about porting to .NET Core and requested feedback from our community on what their experience was and what we could improve. This sparked many great conversations with our users. Based on these conversations as well as our experience working with first- and third-party partners, we've decided to drastically simplify...

Releasing F# Language Documentation as Open-Source

May 17, 2016 May 17, 2016 05/17/16
Den Delimarsky [MSFT]
Guest post by Den Delimarsky, Program Manager, Butt & Enterprise Continuing our efforts to make our documentation more flexible and open, we are releasing the F# language documentation as open-source. This means that starting today you can both easily download the most up-to-date documents for offline consumption, as well as contribute to...

Porting to .NET Core

February 10, 2016 Feb 10, 2016 02/10/16
Immo Landwerth
.NET Core is getting closer and closer to an RTM release. Only two months ago, we announced the RC release of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. As part of our validation, we're working with internal as well as external customers to port their code to .NET Core. We received many requests from you asking us how you should go about migrating existing ...