Today, we are releasing the January 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Please avoid installing this update on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. See .NET Framework January 2018 Rollup Known Issue KB4074906 – “TypeInitializationException” or “FileFormatException” error in WPF applications for more information. Three workarounds are provided. More information will be provided here when a… Read more
Today, we are releasing the .NET for UWP January 2018 Update. This post includes the fix included and instructions on how to update your applications. Security CVE-2018-0786 – Security Feature Bypass in X509 Certificate Validation Microsoft is aware of a security vulnerability in the public versions of .NET Core where an attacker could present a… Read more
Today, we are happy to announce the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 is available on Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Microsoft Update (MU) Catalog. This includes reliability fixes based on your early feedback on the release. .NET Framework 4.7.1 is available for the following client and server platforms: Client platforms: Windows 7 SP1,… Read more
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core January 2018 Update. This includes .NET Core 1.0.9, 1.1.6 and 2.0.5. Please leave feedback on the release in the comments below or at dotnet/core #1199. Security CVE-2018-0786 – Security Feature Bypass in X509 Certificate Validation Microsoft is aware of a security vulnerability in the public versions of .NET… Read more
Hi everyone! The .NET team is conducting a survey to learn more about your approach for moving existing .NET applications to the cloud. The survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete. Take the Survey now! The survey will also allow you to provide your contact details which will allow a .NET team member to… Read more
Porting existing code to .NET Core used to be quite hard because the available API set was very small. In .NET Core 2.0, we already made this much easier, thanks to .NET Standard 2.0. Today, we’re happy to announce that we made it even easier with the Windows Compatibility Pack, which provides access to an additional 20,000… Read more
Nov. 15th 2017 update Earlier this year, we published this eBook/guide and sample application offering guidance for architecting microservices and Docker containers based applications. We have recently published updates to the eBook (2nd edition) and sample application to bring them in line with the latest releases of .NET Core 2.0 and many other updates coming… Read more
Nov. 15th 2017 update Earlier this year, we published an eBook/Guide and sample application offering guidance named Architecting Modern Web Applications with ASP.NET Core and Microsoft Azure. We have recently published updates to the eBook (2nd edition) and sample application to bring them in line with the latest releases of ASP.NET Core 2.0 and Entity Framework… Read more
Overview Tensor is an exchange type for homogenous multi-dimensional data for 1 to N dimensions. The motivation behind introducing Tensor<T> is to make it easy for Machine Learning library vendors like CNTK, Tensorflow, Caffe, Scikit-Learn to port their libraries over to .NET with minimal dependencies in place. Tensor<T> is designed to provide the following characteristics…. Read more
Today we released a prototype of a C# feature called “nullable reference types“, which is intended to help you find and fix most of your null-related bugs before they blow up at runtime. We would love for you to install the prototype and try it out on your code! (Or maybe a copy of it!… Read more