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Tune in for .NET Conf: Focus on Windows, February 25th

February 24, 2021 Feb 24, 2021 02/24/21

Sachin Thakur

The .NET Conf team is bringing you another “.NET Conf: Focus” event Thursday, February 25 all about building Windows desktop apps. We have finalized the agenda, speakers, and hosts that will make the day educational and fun. We have .NET and Windows team members along with community speakers and MVPs to show you some amazing things you ...

Generating HTTP API clients using Visual Studio Connected Services

February 23, 2021 Feb 23, 2021 02/23/21

Sachin Thakur

We’re continuing our series on building HTTP APIs with .NET 5. In the first post in this series we talked about building well-described APIs using OpenAPI, and then followed that up taking a deeper dive into some of the open-source tools and packages you can use to make your HTTP API development easier. In this post, the third in the series...

Announcing .NET 6 Preview 1

February 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021 02/17/21

Sachin Thakur

Today, we are happy to deliver the first preview of .NET 6 and share what you can expect from the new release. We have been defining the overall shape of the release for the last few months, including a large set of new experiences and capabilities. The heart of .NET 6 is delivering the final parts of the .NET unification plan that started ...

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 1

February 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021 02/17/21

Sachin Thakur

.NET 6 Preview 1 is now available and ready for evaluation. This is the first preview of .NET 6, the next major update to the .NET platform. .NET 6 is expected to ship in November of this year, and will be a Long Term Support (LTS) release...

Announcing TypeScript 4.2 RC

February 12, 2021 Feb 12, 2021 02/12/21

Sachin Thakur

Today we’re excited to announce our Release Candidate of TypeScript 4.2! Between now and the stable release of TypeScript 4.2, we expect no further changes apart from critical bug fixes...

Open-source HTTP API packages and tools

February 12, 2021 Feb 12, 2021 02/12/21

Sachin Thakur

We’re continuing our series on building HTTP APIs with .NET 5. In the previous post, we covered Creating Discoverable HTTP APIs with ASP.NET Core 5 Web API. In this post, we’ll go further with a look at using open-source HTTP API packages and tools...

Analyzing Code with Infer#

February 12, 2021 Feb 12, 2021 02/12/21

Sachin Thakur

Want to detect reliability and security bugs before they ship? Matthew Jin and Xiaoyu Liu show Infer#, a static analysis tool you can use to validate the correctness of source code without needing to execute it...