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September 2020 - .NET Blog

Repo experience survey results

September 29, 2020 Sep 29, 2020 09/29/20
Sam Spencer
A couple of months ago we ran a survey of our github community to understand our users satisfaction and experience with the mechanics of how the projects are open-sourced with the community. This post shares the results.

ML.NET September Updates

September 25, 2020 Sep 25, 2020 09/25/20
Bri Achtman
This release of ML.NET (1.5.2) brings numerous bug fixes and enhancements, while tooling updates include the ability to train object detection models using Azure ML via Model Builder and to locally train image classification models with the ML.NET CLI.

NET Core Releases and Support

September 23, 2020 Sep 23, 2020 09/23/20
Jamshed Damkewala
7/15/2021: this post was revised to update the support period for "Current" releases from 15 months to 18 months, or 6 months after the next release ships.   While we've covered .NET Core releases, cadence and support policies in previous blog posts, the information has been distributed across a couple of individual posts. With the...

The future of .NET Standard

September 15, 2020 Sep 15, 2020 09/15/20
Immo Landwerth
Since .NET 5 was announced, many of you have asked what this means for .NET Standard and whether it will still be relevant. In this post, I'm going to explain how .NET 5 improves code sharing and replaces .NET Standard. I'll also cover the cases where you still need .NET Standard.