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.NET Core January 2020 Updates – 2.1.15, 3.0.2, and 3.1.1

January 14, 2020 Jan 14, 2020 01/14/20

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core January 2020 Update. These updates also 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. ...

.NET Framework January Security and Quality Rollup

January 14, 2020 Jan 14, 2020 01/14/20

Tara Overfield

Today, we are releasing the January 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security CVE-2020-0605, CVE-2020-0606, CVE-2020-0646 – .NET Framework Remote Code Execution A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Microsoft .NET Framework fails to validate input properly. An attacker who successfully exploited...

Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings

January 14, 2020 Jan 14, 2020 01/14/20

Eilon Lipton

Download the Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings framework. Build native mobile apps using Blazor!

Collecting and analyzing memory dumps

January 13, 2020 Jan 13, 2020 01/13/20

Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]

Introducing a new tool, dotnet-gcdump, for collecting portable memory dumps of .NET Core processes

An Introduction to DataFrame

December 16, 2019 Dec 16, 2019 12/16/19

Prashanth Govindarajan

Last month, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks, and showed how to use them to work with .NET for Apache Spark and ML.NET. Today, we're announcing the preview of a DataFrame type for .NET to make data exploration easy. If you've used Python to manipulate data in notebooks, you'll already be familiar with the concept of a DataFrame...

ConfigureAwait FAQ

December 11, 2019 Dec 11, 2019 12/11/19

Stephen Toub - MSFT

.NET added / to the languages and libraries over seven years ago. In that time, it's caught on like wildfire, not only across the .NET ecosystem, but also being replicated in a myriad of other languages and frameworks. It's also seen a ton of improvements in .NET, in terms of additional language constructs that utilize asynchrony, APIs ...

An Introduction to System.Threading.Channels

December 11, 2019 Dec 11, 2019 12/11/19

Stephen Toub - MSFT

"Producer/consumer" problems are everywhere, in all facets of our lives. A line cook at a fast food restaurant, slicing tomatoes that are handed off to another cook to assemble a burger, which is handed off to a register worker to fulfill your order, which you happily gobble down. Postal drivers delivering mail all along their routes, and you ...

.NET Framework December 2019 Security and Quality Rollup

December 10, 2019 Dec 10, 2019 12/10/19

Tara Overfield

Today, we are releasing the December 2019 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security No new security fixes. See September 2019 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET CLR1 WPF2...

We made Windows Server Core container images >40% smaller

December 9, 2019 Dec 9, 2019 12/9/19

Rich Lander [MSFT]

Over the past year, we've been working with the Windows Server team to make Windows Server Core container images a lot smaller. They are now >40% smaller! The Windows Server team has already published the new images in the Server Core Insider Docker repo, and will eventually publish them to their stable repo with their 20H1 release. You can ...

GC Perf Infrastructure – Part 1

December 9, 2019 Dec 9, 2019 12/9/19

maoni

We open sourced our new GC Perf Infrastructure! It’s now part of the dotnet performance repo. I’ve been meaning to write about it ‘cause some curious minds had been asking when they could use it after I blogged about it last time but didn’t get around to it till now. First of all, let me point out that the target audience of this ...