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Announcing ASP.NET 4.6 and ASP.NET 5 beta 5 in Visual Studio 2015 Release

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
Jeffrey Fritz
Long time readers of this blog or followers of the ASP.NET Community Standup know that this day was coming, and we have a released version of ASP.NET 4.6 framework and tools with Visual Studio 2015.  Not only are we shipping ASP.NET 4.6, but we are also including with Visual Studio 2015 a bundle of ASP.NET 5 beta 5 runtime tools and libraries...

Allocating on the stack or the heap?

July 15, 2015 Jul 15, 2015 07/15/15
maoni
A recent discussion prompted me to write this blog entry. The question there was “when should I allocate something on the stack vs on the heap?”. I searched around and there are plenty of articles that talk about *what* gets allocated on the stack vs on the heap, but not how you should decide what to allocate on the stack vs heap. ...

New version of ASP.NET Merge Tool

July 15, 2015 Jul 15, 2015 07/15/15
Matt FJH
The ASP.NET Merge tool (Aspnet_merge.exe) enables you to combine and manage the assemblies that are created by the ASP.NET compilation tool (Aspnet_compiler.exe). It was built on top of a Microsoft Research project, ILMerge, through which Aspnet_merge.exe does IL code merge.   What problem does this new version fix? The first version ...

First .NET Port Award

July 14, 2015 Jul 14, 2015 07/14/15
Immo Landwerth
Recently, we shared quite a bit how we make progress on our open source journey (Roslyn's First Year of Open Source and .NET Core Open Source Update). We all feel highly privileged to be on the .NET team when all of this awesomeness happens! However, unless you're an active contributor on any of our OSS projects, you probably didn't have the ...

First .NET Port Award

July 14, 2015 Jul 14, 2015 07/14/15
Immo Landwerth
Recently, we shared quite a bit how we make progress on our open source journey (Roslyn's First Year of Open Source and .NET Core Open Source Update). We all feel highly privileged to be on the .NET team when all of this awesomeness happens! However, unless you're an active contributor on any of our OSS projects, you probably didn't have the ...

First .NET Port Award

July 14, 2015 Jul 14, 2015 07/14/15
Immo Landwerth
Recently, we shared quite a bit how we make progress on our open source journey (Roslyn's First Year of Open Source and .NET Core Open Source Update). We all feel highly privileged to be on the .NET team when all of this awesomeness happens! However, unless you're an active contributor on any of our OSS projects, you probably didn't have ...

ASP.NET Community Standup – July 14, 2015

July 14, 2015 Jul 14, 2015 07/14/15
Jeffrey Fritz
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup.  The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET 5 framework over the previous week.  Within 30 minutes...

A Glimpse into the future of Web Development Tools

July 14, 2015 Jul 14, 2015 07/14/15
Jeffrey Fritz
(image) There’s some exciting news for the ASP.NET community this week on the Visual Studio blog that we wanted to take a moment to point out. Nik Molnar and Anthony van der Hoorn, the creators of Glimpse, have joined Microsoft on the Visual Studio team! The ASP.NET team have been fans of Glimpse since we first saw it at the Mix 11 ...

ASP.NET Community Standup – July 7, 2015

July 7, 2015 Jul 7, 2015 07/7/15
Jeffrey Fritz
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup.  The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET 5 framework over the previous week.  Within 30 minutes...

Thank you for your contributions

July 2, 2015 Jul 2, 2015 07/2/15
.NET Team
(image) Since going open source, Roslyn has had 45 and Visual F# has had 29 unique code contributors external to Microsoft. To celebrate and appreciate our first contributors, we sent them each a small gift in the mail: a mug with the classic “cup of tea” language joke as well as the SHA1 of their first commit engraved on the back...