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May 2018 - .NET Blog

Announcing .NET Core 2.1

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
We're excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.1. It includes improvements to performance, to the runtime and tools. It also includes a new way to deploy tools as NuGet packages. We've added a new primitive type called that operates on data without allocations. There are many other new APIs, focused on cryptography, compression, and ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
Diego Vega
Today we are excited to announce the release of Entity Framework (EF) Core 2.1. This is the latest production-ready release of our open-source and cross-platform data access technology. We are releasing today alongside .NET Core 2.1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1. EF Core 2.1 targets .NET Standard 2.0 and so also runs on .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Framework...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0 now available

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
Daniel Roth
Today we're thrilled to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 2.1.0! This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform web framework for .NET and it's now ready for production use. Get started with ASP.NET Core 2.1 today! New features in this release include: Check out What's New ...

Troubleshooting ASP.NET Core Performance Problems

May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018 05/23/18
Jeffrey Fritz
This is a guest post by Mike Rousos I recently had an opportunity to help a developer with an ASP.NET Core app that was functionally correct but slow when under a heavy user load. We found a few different factors contributing to the app's slowdown while investigating, but the majority of the issues were some variation of blocking threads that...

A Penny Saved is a Ton of Serverless Compute Earned

May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018 05/21/18
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Scott Guthrie recently shared one of my favorite anecdotes on his Azure Red Shirt Tour. A Microsoft customer regularly invokes 1 billion (yes, that’s with a “B”) Azure Functions per day. The customer reached out to support after the first month thinking there was a bug in the billing system, only to find out that the $72 was in fact ...

.NET Framework May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup for Windows 10

May 17, 2018 May 17, 2018 05/17/18
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup for Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update) and Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update). Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Networking WPF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not ...

.NET Framework May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup

May 15, 2018 May 15, 2018 05/15/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are releasing the May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Networking WPF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS bug number provided with each improvement ...