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The Next Generation of .NET – ASP.NET vNext

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14
.NET Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework. Today at TechEd North America, we announced the latest set of innovations that are part of the next generation of .NET. The biggest of those is ASP.NET ...

Get your libraries ready for Windows Phone 8.1

April 30, 2014 Apr 30, 2014 04/30/14
Immo Landwerth
Two weeks ago, we released the Windows Phone preview for developers. In this post, I’ll cover what this means for library and app developers. (image) What this means for library developers As a .NET developer you can target Windows Phone 8.1 via two platforms: Apps that target Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 can consume existing ...

The JIT finally proposed. JIT and SIMD are getting married.

April 7, 2014 Apr 7, 2014 04/7/14
Immo Landwerth
Processor speed no longer follows Moore’s law. So in order to optimize the performance of your applications, it’s increasingly important to embrace parallelization. Or, as Herb Sutter phrased it, the free lunch is over. You may think that task-based programming or offloading work to threads is already the answer. While multi-...

The Next Generation of .NET

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14
.NET Team
At Build 2014 this week, we announced the next generation of .NET. The next generation will focus and deliver on two main themes: Core Innovation and cross-device apps. These themes are a direct result of your feedback, asking for new features in .NET and to make it easier to use .NET for all your apps. At Build 2014, we are releasing...

Announcing .NET Native Preview

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
.NET Team
This post was written by Subramanian Ramaswamy and Andrew Pardoe, Senior Program Managers on the .NET Native team. We’re thrilled to announce the first release of .NET Native. Windows Store apps start up to 60% faster with .NET Native and have a much smaller memory footprint. Our first release is a Developer Preview that allows you to ...

Upcoming .NET NuGet Releases

March 4, 2014 Mar 4, 2014 03/4/14
.NET Team
This post was written by Richard Lander, a Program Manager on the .NET Core Framework team. We recently concluded a planning exercise for the next few months of work. From this exercise, we’d like to share the next set of NuGet releases that we plan to do. We chose this particular set based on your feedback and internal partner ...

Upcoming .NET NuGet Releases

March 4, 2014 Mar 4, 2014 03/4/14
.NET Team
This post was written by Richard Lander, a Program Manager on the .NET Core Framework team. We recently concluded a planning exercise for the next few months of work. From this exercise, we’d like to share the next set of NuGet releases that we plan to do. We chose this particular set based on your feedback and internal partner ...

RyuJIT CTP2: Getting Ready for Prime-time

February 27, 2014 Feb 27, 2014 02/27/14
.NET Team
This post announces an updated preview of the .NET team’s new 64-bit Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler. It was written by Mani Ramaswamy, Program Manager for the .NET Dynamic Code Execution Team. Note: RyuJIT CTP3 is available here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/04/03/the-next-generation-of-net.aspx. The developer preview of ...

A new look for .NET Reference Source

February 24, 2014 Feb 24, 2014 02/24/14
Immo Landwerth
This post was written by Alok Shriram, Program Manager on the .NET Framework team. He will show you a significantly improved experience around .NET Reference Source. Today I'm very excited to announce that we have an awesome new experience to use the .NET Framework reference source. Browsing .NET Reference Source First of all, most people ...

Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource is now stable

January 30, 2014 Jan 30, 2014 01/30/14
Immo Landwerth
We are announcing the RTM of 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. Over the past several weeks we’ve been working on addressing some feedback we’ve received from our users ...