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Announcing Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 7

Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the seventh preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes a factory to create instances, the ability to reset state, Cosmos DB improvements including enhanced support for configuration options and partition keys, and much more. In this post To summarize: EF Core 5.0 runs ...

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 7

Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 7. It's the second to last of the preview releases (before moving to RC). Most features should be very close to done at this point. Single file and ARM64 intrinsics are two feature areas that are taking the longest time to complete, but are on track for Preview 8. See the .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post for a ...

.NET Core July 2020 Updates – 2.1.20 and 3.1.6

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core July 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Security CVE-2020-1147: .NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability...

Orchard Core Release Candidate 2 now available

We are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core RC2 is now available. What is Orchard Core? Orchard Core Framework is a community-based application framework for building modular, multi-tenant applications on ASP.NET Core. It has been created by more than 150 contributors and has over 4K stars on GitHub. Orchard Core also includes Orchard ...

F# 5 and F# tools update for June

We’re excited to announce more updates to F# 5 today! We shipped an initial set of features with F# 5 preview 1, and they have all been stabilizing since that release including a updates from last month. Today, we’re happy to announce some new language features, a sneak peek at using F# in VSCode notebooks, and some F# tooling updates that...

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 6

.NET 5 Preview 6 is now available and is ready for evaluation. Here's what's new in this release: Get started To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 5.0 Preview 6 install the .NET 5.0 SDK. You need to use Visual Studio 2019 16.7 or Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.6 to use .NET 5.0. Install the latest version of the C# extension, to ...