The Roadmap for WPF
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...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the final version of the .NET Framework 4.6. Today is a...
View Article.NET Core is Open Source
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...
View ArticleOne Week of Open Source
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...
View ArticleAdvisory Council Proposal — Call for Community Feedback Extended to December 5th
This is a cross post from the .NET Foundation blog and written by Gianugo Rabellino. –ImmoThe increased openness of .NET has sparked widespread interest in the .NET Foundation. As a result, its Board...
View ArticleDialog box may be displayed to users when opening projects in Microsoft...
After the installation of the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6, users may experience the following dialog box displayed in Microsoft Visual Studio when either creating new Web Site or Windows Azure project...
View ArticleAnnouncing ASP.NET features in Visual Studio 2015 Preview and VS2013 Update 4
Today we released both Visual Studio 2015 Preview and VS2013 Update 4. The ASP.NET team provided many new features and updates to both the runtime and tooling in Visual Studio 2015 Preview, including:...
View ArticleNew Developer and Debugging Features for Azure WebJobs in Visual Studio
With Visual Studio Update 3, the Web Tools Extensions team added a number of great features to make it easier for ASP.NET developers publishing web applications to Azure Websites to enable background...
View ArticleKatana, ASP.NET 5, and bridging the gap
This post is for developers that have been using the Microsoft Owin components (e.g. the Katana project) and want to know how it relates to ASP.NET 5. As discussed in Katana’s roadmap, the next major...
View ArticleContent negotiation in MVC 6 (or how can I just write JSON)
[Update] – We decided to make two significant changes starting with Beta3, we are to not include the XML formatter by default, as well as special treat browsers. The content below is still relevant up...
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