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Updates on .NET Core Windows Forms designer

We released a preview version of Visual Studio 16.6 - Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 1 and with it a new version of .NET Core Windows Forms designer. (image) This release contains Coming next In the future releases we will be working on and third-party controls support, integration with popular controls vendors...

Async ValueTask Pooling in .NET 5

The async/await feature in C# has revolutionized how developers targeting .NET write asynchronous code. Sprinkle some and around, change some return types to be tasks, and badda bing badda boom, you've got an asynchronous implementation. In theory. In practice, obviously I've exaggerated the ease with which a codebase can be made fully ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 1

Today we are excited to announce the first preview release of EF Core 5.0. Prerequisites The previews of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1. This means: How to get EF Core 5.0 previews EF Core is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can use the ...

Announcing .NET 5 Preview 1

At the end of last year, we shipped .NET Core 3.0 and 3.1. These versions added the desktop app models Windows Forms (WinForms) and WPF, ASP.NET Blazor for building single page applications and gRPC for cross-platform, contract-based messaging. We also added templates for building services, rich generation of client code for talking to gRPC, ...

What do you want to see next in ML.NET?

ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework made for .NET developers. Using ML.NET, you can stay in .NET to easily build and consume custom machine learning models for scenarios like sentiment analysis, price prediction, sales forecasting, recommendation, image classification, and more. Over the past six months, ...

Announcing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool 1.0!

Today we are releasing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool for Windows and Mac! Starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3, Visual Studio manages the versions of the SDK and runtime it installs. In previous versions, SDKs and runtimes were left on upgrade in case those versions were targeted or pinned with . We realized this was not ideal and might...