December 2018 | .NET Blog

Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access Build 3707

namrata karnamDecember 14, 2018Dec 14, 201812/14/18

We have another early access build to share today! This release includes several accessibility, performance, reliability and stability fixes across the major framework libraries. We will continue to stabilize this release and take more fixes over the coming months and we would greatly appreciate it if you could help us ensure Build 3707 is a high-quality release by trying it out and providing feedback on the new features via the .NET Framework Early Access GitHub repository.

Visual Studio 2019 Preview .NET Productivity

KendraHavensDecember 13, 2018Dec 13, 201812/13/18

As you hopefully heard, the first preview of Visual Studio 2019 is now available. In this post I’ll cover some of the productivity improvements for .NET developers we’re most excited about. For a complete list, check out the release notes.
Regex Language Support
Any regular expressions in your C# or Visual Basic files now have syntax highlighting,

.NET Framework December 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

Tara OverfieldDecember 11, 2018Dec 11, 201812/11/18

Today, we are releasing the December 2018 Security and Quality Rollup.
Security
CVE-2018-8540 – Windows Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow remote code execution when Microsoft .NET Framework doesn’t validate input correctly.

Open Sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF

karan nandwani msftDecember 10, 2018Dec 10, 201812/10/18

Today, we are excited to announce that we are open sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF.
In the past, we open sourced XAML Behaviors for UWP which has been a great success and the Behaviors NuGet package has been downloaded over 500k times.

Take C# 8.0 for a spin

Mads Torgersen - MSFTDecember 5, 2018Dec 5, 201812/5/18

Take C# 8.0 for a spin
Yesterday we announced the first preview of both Visual Studio 2019 (Making every developer more productive with Visual Studio 2019) and .NET Core 3.0 (Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks).

.NET Framework December 5, 2018 Preview of Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019

Tara OverfieldDecember 5, 2018Dec 5, 201812/5/18

Today, we are releasing the December 5, 2018 Preview of .NET Framework Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019.
For more information about the new Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019 please refer to this recent announcement.

Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks

Rich Lander [MSFT]December 4, 2018Dec 4, 201812/4/18

Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1. It is the first public release of .NET Core 3. We have some exciting new features to share and would love your feedback. You can develop .NET Core 3 applications with Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1,

Announcing .NET Core 2.2

Rich Lander [MSFT]December 4, 2018Dec 4, 201812/4/18

We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.2. It includes diagnostic improvements to the runtime, support for ARM32 for Windows and Azure Active Directory for SQL Client. The biggest improvements in this release are in ASP.NET Core.
ASP.NET Core 2.2 and Entity Framework Core 2.2 are also releasing today.

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.2

Diego VegaDecember 4, 2018Dec 4, 201812/4/18

Today we’re making the final version of EF Core 2.2 available, alongside ASP.NET Core 2.2 and .NET Core 2.2. This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform object-database mapping technology.
EF Core 2.2 RTM includes more than a hundred bug fixes and a few new features:
Spatial data support
Spatial data can be used to represent the physical location and shape of objects.

Announcing ML.NET 0.8 – Machine Learning for .NET

Cesar De la TorreDecember 4, 2018Dec 4, 201812/4/18

ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform framework (Windows, Linux, macOS) which makes machine learning accessible for .NET developers.
ML.NET allows you to create and use machine learning models targeting scenarios to achieve common tasks such as sentiment analysis, issue classification, forecasting,

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