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.NET Framework February 2020 Preview of Quality Rollup

February 25, 2020 Feb 25, 2020 02/25/20
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the February 2020 Preview of Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 WCF2 Workflow Winforms 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Getting the Update ...

.NET Core February 2020 Updates – 2.1.16, 3.0.3, and 3.1.2

February 18, 2020 Feb 18, 2020 02/18/20
Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core February 2020 Update. These updates only contain non-security 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 needed to...

.NET Framework February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup

February 11, 2020 Feb 11, 2020 02/11/20
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security The February Security and Quality Rollup Update does not contain any new security fixes. See January 2020 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality...

Using .NET for Apache® Spark™ to Analyze Log Data

February 10, 2020 Feb 10, 2020 02/10/20
Brigit Murtaugh
.NET for Apache Spark makes Apache® Spark™, and thus the exciting world of big data analytics, accessible to .NET developers. .NET for Spark can be used for processing batches of data, real-time streams, machine learning, and ad-hoc query. In this post, we explore how to use .NET for Spark to perform log analysis.

Garbage Collection at Food Courts

February 8, 2020 Feb 8, 2020 02/8/20
maoni
When I first started working on the GC, my predecessor was explaining the GC tuning to me. I told him that I thought it sounded like how I saw janitors work at food courts (I frequented food courts at the time 😀). And he concurred. What I said was if you observe at a food court, in order to be productive, the janitor tries to collect a ...

GC Handles

February 6, 2020 Feb 6, 2020 02/6/20
maoni
A customer asked me about analyzing perf related to GC handles. I feel like aside from pinned handles in general handles are not talked about much so this topic warrants some explanation, especially since this is a user facing feature. For some background info, GC handles are indeed generational so when we are doing ephemeral GCs we only need...