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Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4

December 3, 2019 Dec 3, 2019 12/3/19
Arthur Vickers
Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4 We are excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.1 and EF 6.4 on nuget.org. The final versions of .NET Core 3.1 and ASP.NET Core 3.1 are also available now. How to get EF Core 3.1 EF Core 3.1 is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to ...

Building Modern Cloud Applications using Pulumi and .NET Core

November 11, 2019 Nov 11, 2019 11/11/19
.NET Team
This is a guest post from the Pulumi team. Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code tool that helps developers and infrastructure teams work better together to create, deploy, and manage cloud applications using their favorite languages. For more information, see https://pulumi.com/dotnet. We are excited to announce .NET Core support ...

An update to C# versions and C# tooling

February 27, 2019 Feb 27, 2019 02/27/19
Phillip Carter
Starting with Visual Studio 2019 Preview 4, we'll be adjusting how C# versions are treated in .NET tooling. Firstly, we're adding two new Language Version (LangVersion) values: LatestMajor and Preview. Rad the post to see how they stack up with the currently supported list of values.

How to port desktop applications to .NET Core 3.0

February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19
Olia Gavrysh
In this post, I will describe how to port a desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core. I picked a WinForms application as an example. Steps for WPF application are similar and I'll describe what needs to be done different for WPF as we go. I will also show how you can keep using the WinForms designer in Visual Studio even though it ...

Help us help you! What desktop apps are you bringing to .NET Core 3.0?

January 17, 2019 Jan 17, 2019 01/17/19
Olia Gavrysh
Windows Desktop applications are coming to .NET Core. The recently released .NET Core 3.0 Preview 1 version includes WinForms and WPF support. To make .NET Core 3.0 viable for as many of you as possible, we have created a survey to understand the types of desktop applications you want to build with .NET Core. Based on the information you ...

Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3694

November 28, 2018 Nov 28, 2018 11/28/18
namrata karnam
We are happy to let you know that .NET Framework 4.8 is now feature complete and we have an early access build to share with you all! We will continue to stabilize this release and take more fixes over the coming months, and we would greatly appreciate it if you could help us ensure this is a high-quality release by trying it out and providing...

Announcing .NET Standard 2.1

November 5, 2018 Nov 5, 2018 11/5/18
Immo Landwerth
Since we shipped .NET Standard 2.0 about a year ago, we've shipped two updates to .NET Core 2.1 and are about to release .NET Core 2.2. It's time to update the standard to include some of the new concepts as well as a number of small improvements that make your life easier across the various implementations of .NET. Keep reading to learn ...

.NET Core Source Code Analysis with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier

October 23, 2018 Oct 23, 2018 10/23/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
This post was written by Varun Venkatesan, Li Tian, Denis Pravdin, who are engineers at Intel. They are excited to share .NET Core-specific enhancements that Intel has made to VTune Amplifier 2019. You can use this tool to use to make .NET Core applications faster on Intel processors. Update (2019.01.14): VTune™ Amplifier 2019 Update 2 ...

Announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3

October 17, 2018 Oct 17, 2018 10/17/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3 as well as ASP.NET Core 2.2 Preview 3, and Entity Framework 2.2 Preview 3 release. .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3 can be used with Visual Studio 15.9 Preview 3 (or later), Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio Code. Download and test it out! We’re looking for feedback on the release with the intent of shipping the final version later this year.