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Announcing the .NET Framework 4.6.2 Preview

March 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016 03/30/16
Stacey Haffner [MSFT]
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is not supported. We are pleased to announce the .NET Framework Preview 4.6.2. You can download the release from one of the following links: We've added new features and APIs in the following areas of the product: You can see the...

Announcing v16.1 of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

March 14, 2016 Mar 14, 2016 03/14/16
Jeffrey Fritz
We are very happy to announce along with our partners at DevExpress, a new version of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is now available.  This version, labeled 16.1 delivers some documentation improvements, tutorials, and some long requested updates for existing controls. This is the one year anniversary of the stewardship of the AJAX ...

Announcing ASP.NET WebHooks Release Candidate 1

March 5, 2016 Mar 5, 2016 03/5/16
Henrik F Nielsen
We are very excited to announce the availability of ASP.NET WebHooks Release Candidate 1. Thank you for all the positive feedback, suggestions, pull requests, and comments to date – they are essential to the process so keep them coming! < p>WebHooks provide a simple mechanism for sending event notifications across web applications ...

ASP.NET 5 is dead – Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0

January 19, 2016 Jan 19, 2016 01/19/16
Jeffrey Fritz
This post originally appeared on Scott Hanselman's blog at: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNET5IsDeadIntroducingASPNETCore10AndNETCore10.aspx Naming is hard. There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton It's very easy to armchair quarterback and say that "they should have ...

Support Ending for the .NET Framework 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1

December 9, 2015 Dec 9, 2015 12/9/15
Stacey Haffner [MSFT]
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. As previously announced, starting January 12, 2016 Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, technical support or hotfixes for .NET 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1 frameworks. All other framework versions, including 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1, will be supported for the ...

.NET Framework 4.6.1 is now available!

November 30, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 11/30/15
The .NET Fundamentals Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (1/2016): This post was updated to add information about reference source for .NET Framework 4.6.1. Today we are announcing the availability of  .NET Framework 4.6.1. You can download this release now. Here is a summary of key improvements ...

.NET Core and ASP.NET Bug Bounty Update

November 24, 2015 Nov 24, 2015 11/24/15
Barry Dorrans
As we've now released RC1 of .NET Core and ASP.NET restrictions on areas for investigation are now lifted. The entire cross platform stack, including networking is now in scope and eligible for bounty submissions.The ASP.NET web site has instructions on how to install RC1 on Windows, Linux and OS X. Windows researchers can use Visual ...

Announcing .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 RC

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is not supported. Today, we are announcing .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 Release Candidate, supported on Windows, OS X and Linux. This release is "Go Live", meaning you can deploy apps into production and call Microsoft Support if you need help. Please check out ...