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Announcing .NET Core Tools MSBuild “alpha”

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Rich Lander [MSFT]
We are excited to announce the first "alpha" release of the new MSBuild-based .NET Core Tools. You can try out the new .NET Core Tools in Visual Studio 2017 RC, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code and at the commandline. The new Tools release can be used with both the .NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.1 runtimes. When we started building...

Put a .NET Core App in a Container with the new Docker Tools for Visual Studio

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Jeffrey Fritz
By now hopefully you’ve heard the good news that we’ve added first class support for building and running .NET applications inside of Docker containers in Visual Studio 2017 RC.  Visual Studio 2017 and Docker support building and running .NET applications using Windows containers (on Windows 10/Server 2016 only), and .NET Core ...

Announcing the Fastest ASP.NET Yet, ASP.NET Core 1.1 RTM

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Jeffrey Fritz
We are happy to announce that ASP.NET Core 1.1 is now available as a stable release on nuget.org! This release includes a bunch of great new features along with many bug fixes and general enhancements. We invite you to try out the new features and to provide feedback. To update an existing project to ASP.NET Core 1.1 you will need to do the...

Announcing .NET Core 1.1

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.1 RTM, the first "Current" release. You can start creating .NET Core 1.1 apps, today, in Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017 RC, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio for the Mac. We used the 1.1 release to ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 1.1

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Rowan Miller
Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core 1.1 available. EF Core follows the same release cycle as .NET Core. Continuous improvements every 2 months and new features released every 6 months. This is the first feature release since 1.0...

The week in .NET – Mitch Muenster – Stateless

November 15, 2016 Nov 15, 2016 11/15/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – On .NET on CoreRT and .NET Native – Enums.NET – Ylands – Markdown Monster. On .NET Last week, we hosted the MVP Summit, and instead of having a big one-hour show, we did several mini-interviews with MVPs. The first one was published on Monday. Mitch Muenster spent 25 minutes with us ...

.NET Core Data Access

November 9, 2016 Nov 9, 2016 11/9/16
Bertrand Le Roy
.NET Core was released a few months ago, and data access libraries for most databases, both relational and NoSQL are now available. In this post, I'll detail what client libraries are available, as well as show code samples for each of them. ORM EF Core Entity Framework is Microsoft's Object-Relational Mapper for .NET, and as such is one of...

The week in .NET – On .NET on CoreRT and .NET Native – Enums.NET – Ylands – Markdown Monster

November 8, 2016 Nov 8, 2016 11/8/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – .NET Foundation – Serilog – Super Dungeon Bros. On .NET Last week, Mei-Chin Tsai and Jan Kotas were on the show: This week, we won't be streaming live, but we'll be taking advantage of the presence of many MVPs on campus for the MVP Summit to speak with as many of them as possible in ...

Visual Studio Tools for Azure Functions

November 1, 2016 Nov 1, 2016 11/1/16
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Update 5-10-2017: The first release of Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions is now available to try. As discussed in the Visual Studio 2017 Toolspost and these 2015 tools were preview tools that provided us great feedback and learning. However, as outlined in our roadmap post, the pivot to precompiled functions with a focus on .NET ...

The week in .NET – .NET Foundation – Serilog – Super Dungeon Bros

November 1, 2016 Nov 1, 2016 11/1/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – .NET, ASP.NET, EF Core 1.1 Preview 1 – On .NET on EF Core 1.1 – Changelog – FluentValidation – Reverse: Time Collapse. On .NET: Martin Woodward on the .NET Foundation Last week, Martin Woodward was on the show to talk about the .NET Foundation: This week, we'll speak with Mei-Chin...