.NET Blog

Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 now available

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

Daniel Roth

Blazor WebAssembly is now officially released! This is a fully-featured and supported release of Blazor WebAssembly that is ready for production use. Full stack web development with .NET is now here!

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 4

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]

.NET 5 Preview 4 is now available and is ready for evaluation! .NET 5 will be a current release. Get started To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 5.0 Preview4 install the .NET 5.0 SDK. If you're on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing the latest preview of Visual Studio 2019 16.6. If you're on macOS, we recommend ...

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

Scott Hunter [MSFT]

You can build anything with .NET. It's one of the main reasons millions of developers choose .NET as the platform for their careers, and companies invest for their businesses. With .NET 5 we begin our journey of unifying the .NET platform, bringing .NET Core and Mono/Xamarin together in one base class library (BCL) and toolchain (SDK). As ...

Announcing .NET 5 Preview 4 and our journey to one .NET

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

Scott Hunter [MSFT]

.NET 5 is the next version and future of .NET. We are continuing the journey of unifying the .NET platform, with a single framework that extends from cloud to desktop to mobile and beyond. Looking back, we took the best of .NET Framework and put that into .NET Core 3, including support for WPF and Windows Forms. As we continue the journey, we ...

.NET Core May 2020 Updates – 2.1.18 and 3.1.4

May 12, 2020 May 12, 2020 05/12/20

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core May 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a Visual Studio user, there are MSBuild version requirements so use only the .NET Core SDK supported for each Visual Studio version. Information ...

.NET Framework May 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

May 12, 2020 May 12, 2020 05/12/20

Tara Overfield

Revised 6/8/2021: On June 8th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous update to address a “revocation server was offline” error that may occur during installation. If you've already installed a previous release of this update, no action is required. Revised 4/15/2021: On April 13th, 2021, this update was released to ...

Using ML.NET for deep learning on images in Azure

May 6, 2020 May 6, 2020 05/6/20

Luis Quintanilla

This post will show you how to train a custom image classification model in Azure to categorize flowers using ML.NET Model Builder. Then, you can leverage your existing .NET skills to consume the trained model inside a C# .NET Core console application. Best of all, little to no prior machine learning knowledge is required.

Configuring Azure Services and emulators using Visual Studio

May 6, 2020 May 6, 2020 05/6/20

Angelos Petropoulos

Starting with Visual Studio 16.6 Preview 2 the Connected Services tab offers a new experience called Service Dependencies. You can use it to connect your app to Azure services such as Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault and many others. Wherever possible local emulation options are also available and more are planned for the future. (image) ...

Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Release Candidate now available

April 30, 2020 Apr 30, 2020 04/30/20

Daniel Roth

The Blazor WebAssembly Release Candidate is here! This release contains all of the features and improvements that we expect to release for the upcoming Blazor WebAssembly release. There are no more breaking changes planned at this point. Please give the Blazor WebAssembly Release Candidate a try and let us know what you think!

Introducing C# Source Generators

April 29, 2020 Apr 29, 2020 04/29/20

Phillip Carter

We're pleased to introduce the first preview of Source Generators, a new C# compiler feature that lets C# developers inspect user code and generate new C# source files that can be added to a compilation. This is done via a new kind of component that we're calling a Source Generator. To get started with Source Generators, you'll need to ...