.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 ArticleVisual Studio 2015 Preview, Visual Studio Community 2013, Visual Studio 2013...
This is a big day with a lot of releases going out and so this post is longer than normal. I’ll briefly touch on some of today’s releases and point you to other locations with more details. We’ll post...
View ArticleAnnouncing a preview of F# 4.0 and the Visual F# Tools in VS 2015
Today, we are happy to announce a pre-release of F# 4.0 and the latest Visual F# Tools, for Visual Studio 2015 Preview. F# development tools are included in the box with the VS 2015 Preview download,...
View ArticleEF6.1.2 Beta 2 Available
Today we are making Beta 2 of the EF6.1.2 release available. This patch release contains bug fixes and some contributions from our community. When will EF6.1.2 RTM?We were originally planning to go...
View ArticleAll about C++ Refactoring in Visual Studio 2015 Preview
Hello C++ World! With Wednesday's release of Visual Studio 2015 Preview, we are pleased to present you with new and improved coding productivity features, not the least of which is (finally)...
View ArticleVisual C++ Compiler on Rise4Fun
As you know, through CTPs and Preview releases, we have been trying to make the Visual C++ compiler bits available more frequently. In the same line, we have now decided to provide a view into the live...
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...
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 ArticleiOS / Linux Cross-Platform C++ Survey
We want you to take another survey . Many of you continue to participate in our surveys and opt-in for one-on-one conversations about your development habits. Your feedback helps us better understand...
View ArticleGoingNative 32: C++17 Sneak Preview
From Sneak Preview of C++17 Channel9: Join us with ISO Committee member (and Microsoft as well, of course =P) Gabriel Dos Reis, who graciously took the time to give us the inside scoop of some things...
View ArticleIntroducing .NET Core
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...
View ArticleChannel 9 interview on open sourcing .NET
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...
View ArticleIntroducing the Visual Studio 2015 Preview for C# and VB
Download Visual Studio 2015 Preview and review the release notes.Over the past several years, our team has been hard at work re-implementing the full language stacks for C# and Visual Basic. While this...
View ArticleBing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio
Today we are releasing the RTM version of Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio! To get started, download Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio 2013 or Bing Developer Assistant for Visual...
View ArticleAPI review process for .NET Core
Happy new year! Three weeks ago we published a proposal for an API review process on GitHub and asked for your feedback. The process is now in-place and documented in our developer wiki.Review...
View ArticleMaking It Better: Updates for ASP.NET 5 in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5
It's been about two months since we released the first beta of ASP.NET 5, and today we happy to announce that ASP.NET 5 Beta2 is available. For developers using Visual Studio, you'll find great new...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available
Today, we released Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 with new features in debugging, diagnostics, the XAML language service, and ASP.NET 5 that we added after the November Preview release. While not a major...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2 Released
Today we released Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2, adding support for graphics debugging of Unity-based applications on Windows Phone, and making fixes in the IDE, Team Foundation Server, and Git...
View Article.NET Core Open Source Update
Wow. Just wow. I don’t know of a better way to describe my feelings right now. Open source is probably one of the most energizing projects our team has been working on. It’s been a blast so far and the...
View ArticleCoreCLR is now Open Source
We’re excited to announce that CoreCLR is now open source on GitHub. CoreCLR is the .NET execution engine in .NET Core, performing functions such as garbage collection and compilation to machine code....
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