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Announcing Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 7

Jeremy LiknessJuly 21, 2020Jul 21, 202007/21/20

Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the seventh preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes a factory to create DbContext instances, the ability to reset DbContext state, Cosmos DB improvements including enhanced support for configuration options and partition keys, and much more. In this post To summarize...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 4

Jeremy LiknessMay 19, 2020May 19, 202005/19/20

Announcing the release of Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 4 with bug fixes and new features like setting database column precision and configuring SQL Server index fill factor.

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...

.NET Core 2.2 will reach End of Life on December 23, 2019

Lee CowardDecember 5, 2019Dec 5, 201912/5/19

.NET Core 2.2 was released on December 4, 2018. As a non-LTS ("Current") release, it is supported for three months after the next release. .NET Core 3.0 was released on September 23, 2019. As a result, .NET Core 2.2 is supported until December 23, 2019. After that time, .NET Core patch updates will no longer include updated packages of ...

Try the new System.Text.Json APIs

Immo LandwerthJune 13, 2019Jun 13, 201906/13/19

For .NET Core 3.0, we're shipping a brand new namespace called System.Text.Json with support for a reader/writer, a document object model (DOM), and a serializer. In this blog post, I'm telling you why we built it, how it works, and how you can try it. We also have a video: Getting the new JSON library The future of ...

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 ...

Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3694

namrata karnamNovember 28, 2018Nov 28, 201811/28/18

We are happy to let you know that .NET Framework 4.8 is now feature complete and we have an early access build to share with you all! We will continue to stabilize this release and take more fixes over the coming months, and we would greatly appreciate it if you could help us ensure this is a high-quality release by trying it out and providing...

.NET Core Source Code Analysis with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier

Rich Lander [MSFT]October 23, 2018Oct 23, 201810/23/18

This post was written by Varun Venkatesan, Li Tian, Denis Pravdin, who are engineers at Intel. They are excited to share .NET Core-specific enhancements that Intel has made to VTune Amplifier 2019. You can use this tool to use to make .NET Core applications faster on Intel processors. Update (2019.01.14): VTune™ Amplifier 2019 Update 2 ...

Announcing .NET Standard 2.0

Immo LandwerthAugust 14, 2017Aug 14, 201708/14/17

The .NET Standard 2.0 specification is now complete. It is supported in .NET Core 2.0, in the .NET Framework 4.6.1 and later versions, and in Visual Studio 15.3. You can start using .NET Standard 2.0 today. While this post demos .NET Standard in C#, it's also supported in Visual Basic and F#. For more details, take a look at the .NET ...

Welcome to the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access!

Preeti Krishna - MSFTAugust 7, 2017Aug 7, 201708/7/17

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...

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