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Announcing Entity Framework 6.3 Preview with .NET Core Support

May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019 05/21/19

Shikha Kaul

The first preview of the EF 6.3 runtime is now available in NuGet. Note that the package is versioned as 6.3.0-preview5. We plan to continue releasing previews of EF 6.3 every month in alignment with the .NET Core 3.0 previews, until we ship the final version...

.NET Core May 2019 Updates – 1.0.16, 1.1.14, 2.1.11 and 2.2.5

May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019 05/21/19

Shikha Kaul

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core May 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages...

Azure Pipelines Now Supports Additional Hosted macOS Versions

May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019 05/21/19

Shikha Kaul

Azure Pipelines, our hosted CI/CD solution, has been offering developers the ability to build and test applications using Microsoft-hosted macOS and Xcode agents, including apps for iOS and watchOS...

Xamarin API Docs: Open Sourced and Available Now

May 16, 2019 May 16, 2019 05/16/19

Shikha Kaul

Today, we are happy to announce the release of all Xamarin API Documentation as Open Source! API documentation drives the IntelliSense experience while being one of the best ways to help developers achieve their goals...

Introducing diagnostics improvements in .NET Core 3.0

May 16, 2019 May 16, 2019 05/16/19

Shikha Kaul

In .NET Core 3.0, we are introducing a suite of tools that utilize new features in the .NET runtime that make it easier to diagnose and solve performance problems...

Signing into Azure DevOps using your GitHub credentials

May 16, 2019 May 16, 2019 05/16/19

Shikha Kaul

Across all of Microsoft, we are focusing on empowering developers to build better apps, faster. One way we are accomplishing that is by providing a range of products and services covering all stages of the software development lifecycle. This includes IDEs and DevOps tools, application and data platforms on the cloud, operating systems, ...

The Next Evolution of Xamarin Training: Microsoft Learn

May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019 05/14/19

Shikha Kaul

We’re excited to announce two new learning paths on Building Xamarin Apps in Microsoft Learn: A free and interactive learning portal...

What’s new with Azure Pipelines

May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019 05/14/19

Shikha Kaul

Azure Pipelines, part of the Azure DevOps suite, is our Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI and CD) platform, used every day by large enterprises, individual developers, and open source projects. Today, we’re thrilled to announce new features for Azure Pipelines, including some much-requested ones...

Announcing ML.NET 1.0

May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019 05/14/19

Shikha Kaul

We are excited to announce the release of ML.NET 1.0 today.  ML.NET is a free, cross-platform and open source machine learning framework designed to bring the power of machine learning (ML) into .NET applications...

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5

May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019 05/14/19

Shikha Kaul

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 is now available. This iteration was brief for the team and primarily includes bug fixes and improvements to the more significant updates in Preview 4. This post summarizes the important points in this release...