Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases.
Updated (1/2016): This post was updated to add information about reference source for .NET Framework 4.6.1.
Today we are announcing the availability of .NET Framework 4.6.1. You can download this release now.
Here is a summary of key improvements ...
Hold on to your hats, cowboys and cowgirls! A lot of exciting things are coming out of the .NET Managed Languages team for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. Read on to learn more about new IDE features, interactive C#, new code analysis management, Visual F# improvements, and the new F5 experience for Roslyn open source development.
You can now ...
Holidays are almost upon us. Last year around Christmas time I wrote a set of GC ETW blog entries to help with diagnosing GC heap related issues. This year I want to discuss taking that a (big) step further and making an SDK that does the analysis for you using these ETW events - so before I leave for vacation I’d like to share with you ...
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is not supported.
Today, we are announcing .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 Release Candidate, supported on Windows, OS X and Linux. This release is "Go Live", meaning you can deploy apps into production and call Microsoft Support if you need help. Please check out ...
Rowan Miller
November 18, 2015
Nov 18, 2015
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Today we are making Entity Framework 7 RC1 available. EF7 will be the next major release of Entity Framework and is currently in pre-release.
When to use EF7
As discussed in our EF7 – v1 or v7 post, EF7 introduces some significant changes and improvements over EF6.x. Because EF7 is based on a new core, the features from EF6.x do ...