We recently talked to Adam and Jared at The Changelog about open sourcing .NET Core. Check out the show. #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET team Here's the introduction from The Changelog : This week, we have members...

Curious to where we are with open sourcing .NET Core? Do you want to know which libraries are next? Interested in a white boarding session with David Kean ? Then you should check out this video on Channel 9 : Questions or concerns? Leave a comment...

At connect() , we announced that .NET Core will be entirely released as open source software . I also promised to follow up with more details on .NET Core. In this post, I’ll provide an overview of .NET Core, how we’re going to release it...

This is a cross post from the .NET Foundation blog and written by Gianugo Rabellino. --Immo The increased openness of .NET has sparked widespread interest in the .NET Foundation. As a result, its Board of Directors has decided to extend the timeframe...

Last Wednesday, we announced the new .NET 2015 Preview and our plans to fully open source .NET Core . What an awesome week! Thank you! We knew that you guys would really dig open source but we didn’t expect such a positive response. Within...

Today is a huge day for .NET! We’re happy to announce that .NET Core will be open source, including the runtime as well as the framework libraries. This is a natural progression of our open source efforts, which already covers the managed compilers...

When we introduced WPF back in 2006 (.NET 3.0), the response was absolutely phenomenal. Enterprises, ISV’s, and Microsoft Partners have made the technology central to their business, building amazing vertical solutions and mission critical applications...

Today is a pivotal moment for .NET. With the release of .NET 2015 Preview, we are embarking on a new journey while maintaining our strong commitment to the 1+ billion customers that are using .NET today. As Scott Guthrie and S. ‘Soma’ Somesegar...

The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-072 - Important , Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege ( 3005210 ) This security...

We've just released a major update to the SIMD vector types we've blogged about earlier ( first announcement , second update ). We've now made the vector library a lot more more useful for typical graphics operations. We added matrix types, a plane...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-059 – Important: Vulnerability in ASP.NET MVC Could Allow Security Feature Bypass (2990942) This is the first release from Microsoft that uses Security Updates for .NET NuGet Libraries Support . This feature enables...

The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-057 - Critical , Vulnerabilities in the .NET Framework could allow remote code execution ( 3000414 ) This...

Today, we are announcing updates to the .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext and .NET Native. These are all available in Visual Studio “14” CTP4 . This .NET Framework release contains RyuJIT, the next generation X64 JIT. ASP.NET vNext contains major improvements...

Today the .NET Micro Framework team is releasing a beta update of the .NET Micro Framework SDK that adds support for Visual Studio 2013. The release also contains other improvements that will benefit developers and hardware partners, making the install...

Today, we're happy to announce that we've started to move some of our sample assets over to GitHub , using the MIT license . So I can directly answer Ben's question: @ben_a_adams The sample code is now on GitHub. Check out this blog post: http:...

The .NET team released a security bulletin and a security advisory today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-053 - Important , Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Denial of Service...

This post was authored by Ron Cain, a Software Development Engineer on the WCF team. In our previous post , we mentioned that some of the client components of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) had been made available for .NET Native Windows Store...

This summer we had six amazing interns that joined the team to work on .NET. Their projects ranged from internal tools, over shipping components to designing forward looking aspects: Shaun Arora (program manager intern): Designing .NET for NuGet...

Today, we are announcing updated versions of .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext , .NET Native and RyuJIT . You can try out these new releases by installing Visual Studio “14” CTP3 . Please tell us what you think. The .NET Framework vNext We are releasing...

The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-046 - Important , Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework could allow Security Feature Bypass ( 2984625 ). This...

A few months ago we announced the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.2 , a highly compatible, in-place update to the .NET 4.x family (.NET 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1). The .NET Framework 4.5.2 was released only a few short months after the release of .NET...

Today we are happy to announce the alpha release of the .NET Portability Analyzer extension for Visual Studio. Please try it out. This add-in was created by our software developer intern Charles Lowell . Over the last few years, consumers and enterprise...

We just shipped an update to our experimental implementation of a multi value dictionary. In this post, our software developer intern Ian Hays talks about the changes. -- Immo Goodbye MultiDictionary In my last post I went over MultiDictionary ...

We just wanted to say thank you for your time attending the dotnetConf in June 2014 where we shared innovation and news about the present and future of .NET, all in a single place focusing on .NET technologies.  You may have missed sessions during...

The free, virtual and community-driven dotnetConf is on. Point your web-browser to dotnetConf . No registration, manager approval or anything required! The virtual conference is two days long. Day 1: Core .NET and Client apps Day 2: ASP.NET and Server...