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Immutable collections ready for prime time

September 25, 2013 Sep 25, 2013 09/25/13
Immo Landwerth
Today I’m very happy to announce that we released the stable version of the Microsoft.Bcl.Immutable NuGet package. We also published the MSDN documentation on immutable collections. Thank you! Nine months ago, we shipped the first preview of immutable collections. This was one of the first BCL features that we decided to ship early and ...

Immutable collections are now RC

September 12, 2013 Sep 12, 2013 09/12/13
Immo Landwerth
Over the past several months, we’ve been working on a new set of collection types that offer an immutable design. Today we are happy to announce that we are one step closer to a stable version of this work: we’ve just shipped the release candidate (1.0.23 RC) of the Microsoft.Bcl.Immutable NuGet package. (image) Because we could...

Updated NuGet Support in Visual Studio 2012.4

September 3, 2013 Sep 3, 2013 09/3/13
Immo Landwerth
As Brian Harry recently announced, there will be a Visual Studio 2012 Update 4. With RC2, we’ve updated the NuGet support. In this blog post, I’ll summarize those improvements. Updated NuGet Client The RTM version of Visual Studio 2012 included a fairly old version of the NuGet client (2.0). Although the NuGet team regularly ...

NuGet 2.7 Package Restore Tips

August 30, 2013 Aug 30, 2013 08/30/13
Jeff Handley [MSFT]
Since the release of NuGet 2.7 with Automatic Package Restore and implicit consent, many developers have adopted the new approach and provided some great feedback on their experiences. Based on that feedback, we have collected a set of tips to help you start using the new restore features. Using Automatic Package Restore Even though package ...

Introducing NuGet Concierge

August 28, 2013 Aug 28, 2013 08/28/13
Mads Kristensen
Twelve weeks ago, the Azure Applications Platform & Tools team welcomed us, three college sophomores, Jaspreet Bagga, Jeremiah Jekich, and Melissa McNeill, to Microsoft. As Explorer Interns, we were given the opportunity to experience the three primary disciplines here at Microsoft: Program Manager, Software Development Engineer, and ...

NuGet Package Restore with Team Foundation Build

August 27, 2013 Aug 27, 2013 08/27/13
Immo Landwerth
Note: This post is now also part of the official NuGet documentation. In this post, I’ll provide a walkthrough on how to use package restore with Team Foundation Build with both, git as well TF version control. In our previous blog post on how we improved package restore, I showed that NuGet 2.7 and Microsoft.Bcl.Build made restoring ...

NuGet 2.7 Released

August 27, 2013 Aug 27, 2013 08/27/13
DeepakVerma
The NuGet team is excited to announce NuGet 2.7 release, for details please see the release notes published on docs.nuget.org.NuGet 2.7 Features Note that with NuGet 2.7, we have removed support for Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone due to technical limitations related to the new automatic package restore. A separate ...

Portable Compression is now stable

August 22, 2013 Aug 22, 2013 08/22/13
Immo Landwerth
Today we are happy to announce that our portable compression library is now available as a stable NuGet package. Microsoft.Bcl.Compression Microsoft.Bcl.Compression provides the following APIs in a portable fashion: It’s supported on the following platforms: .NET 4.5 and .NET for Windows Store apps already ship ...

Improved Package Restore

August 22, 2013 Aug 22, 2013 08/22/13
Immo Landwerth
As we’ve previously explained we receive various reports on how our NuGet packages don’t play nicely with NuGet’s package restore feature. In this blog post I’ll talk about an update we shipped to our infrastructure package Microsoft.Bcl.Build that reduces the impact. The Issue To recap, some of our packages need to participate in ...

Announcing TraceEvent – Monitoring and Diagnostics for the Cloud

August 15, 2013 Aug 15, 2013 08/15/13
Immo Landwerth
In this post, Vance Morrison, software developer on the .NET Runtime team, will talk about the TraceEvent NuGet library we just shipped. -- Immo I am happy to report that we have just released the TraceEvent library on (prelease) NuGet. This library is an important part of the .NET, end-to-end, cloud scale diagnostics and monitoring story. It...