We recently released the January 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup.
Quality and Reliability
This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.
ASP.NET
Identity
SQL
WCF
Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS bug number provided with each improvement is a unique ID ...
Azure Storage is a quick and effortless way to store data for applications that has high availability, is secure, scales and is redundant. This blog post walks through a simple application that creates a short code for a long URL to easily reference it. It uses Table Storage to map codes to URLs and a Queue to process redirect counts. ...
Updated: January 25, 2018
Today, we are releasing the January 2018 Security and Quality Rollup.
An issue with the January 2018 Monthly Rollup was found on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 if .NET Framework 4.7.1 was already installed. It has been resolved. The download links for these Windows versions have been updated in the table ...
Today, we are releasing the .NET for UWP January 2018 Update.
This post includes the fix included and instructions on how to update your applications.
Security
CVE-2018-0786 – Security Feature Bypass in X509 Certificate Validation
Microsoft is aware of a security vulnerability in the public versions of .NET Core where an attacker could ...
When creating an Azure App Service .NET Core is already pre-installed. However, only the 32 bit .NET runtime is installed. In this post we will look at a few ways that you can get a 64 bit runtime on Azure App Service
During the 2.1 timeframe we are hoping to have both 32 and 64 bit runtimes installed as well as enabling the portal ...
Today, we are happy to announce the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 is available on Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Microsoft Update (MU) Catalog. This includes reliability fixes based on your early feedback on the release. .NET Framework 4.7.1 is available for the following client and server platforms:
These ...
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core January 2018 Update. This includes .NET Core  1.0.9, 1.1.6 and 2.0.5.
Please leave feedback on the release in the comments below or at dotnet/core #1199.
Security
CVE-2018-0786 - Security Feature Bypass in X509 Certificate Validation
Microsoft is aware of a security vulnerability in the public versions ...
Today we are releasing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4 on NuGet. This release contains some minor bug fixes and a couple of new features specifically targeted at enabling .NET Standard support for the ASP.NET Web API Client.
You can find the full list of features and bug fixes for this release in the release...