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Announcing F# support for .NET Core and .NET Standard projects in Visual Studio

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17
Phillip Carter
We're pleased to announce that Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 4 now supports F# projects targeting .NET Core, .NET Standard, and .NET Framework through the .NET Core SDK. Some of you have noticed various levels of this support in the first, second, and third previews. We still had a few work items left to complete when those were released, so...

Introducing API Analyzer

October 31, 2017 Oct 31, 2017 10/31/17
Immo Landwerth
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 ...

Welcome to C# 7.1

October 31, 2017 Oct 31, 2017 10/31/17
Mads Torgersen
With C# we have always tended towards major releases: bundle a lot of features up, and release less frequently. We even went so far as routinely omitting the traditional ".0" when we talked about C# 6.0!In the C# 7.0 "wave" we are trying something new. Tools such as Visual Studio upgrade on a frequent cadence, and there's no longer a ...
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Moving to real time test discovery in Test Explorer

October 30, 2017 Oct 30, 2017 10/30/17
KendraHavens
Real time test discovery is a new Visual Studio feature that uses a Roslyn analyzer to discover tests and populate the test explorer in real time without requiring you to build your project. This feature has been introduced in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 2 behind a feature flag. You can try it out by using the instructions in the next ...
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.NET Core 2 and Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) Preview 2

June 12, 2017 Jun 12, 2017 06/12/17
Lee Coward
Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) Preview 2 was recently released which includes .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1, our latest production releases of .NET Core. You will need to install the .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 SDK to develop .NET Core 2.0 applications using Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) Preview 2 .We are working on .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 which will be ...
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The week in .NET – .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1 – Docker – Xenko

November 22, 2016 Nov 22, 2016 11/22/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – Mitch Muenster – Stateless..NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1, VS for Mac Preview, VS 2017 RC, SQL Server on Linux, Tizen, Google joins .NET Foundation, and Microsoft becomes a Linux Foundation platinum memberThis week, at the Connect(); // 2016 event, we made a number of announcements...
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.NET Core Tooling in Visual Studio “15”

October 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016 10/19/16
.NET Team
This post was co-authored by David Carmona, a Principal Program Manager Lead in .NET Team and Joe Morris, a Senior Program Manager in .NET Team.Couple of weeks back, we dedicated a blog post introducing .NET Standard 2.0, which will significantly extend your ability to share code by unifying .NET APIs across all application types and ...
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Changes to Project.json

May 23, 2016 May 23, 2016 05/23/16
Bertrand Le Roy
This post was written by Scott Hunter.Last week we announced the schedule for RC2 / RTM of .NET Core and ASP.NET. Now that we have shipped RC2 I want to give more details on the .NET Core tooling moving from .xproj / project.json to .csproj / MSBuild.MSBuildWhen the ASP.NET team started building ASP.NET 5 (now ASP.NET Core) one of the key ...
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Building accessible websites just got a lot easier

May 2, 2016 May 2, 2016 05/2/16
Mads Kristensen
When building websites it is important that it is accessible for everyone that needs to use it. Implementing web accessibility features greatly helps to achieve that. Here’s what the W3C has to say about that:Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with ...