This post was written by our software developer intern Denys Tsomenko, who worked on a Brotli compression library during his internship.
Modern web-pages are getting larger and larger with huge CSS, HTML and JavaScript files. But the Internet connection isn't always good and pages can load slowly. Web pages also often contain other ...
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The .NET Team has been producing guidance for building microservices and container based applications, web applications and Xamarin.Forms mobile apps. You can use this guidance to help build your applications according to accepted industry patterns with .NET and C#. We have heard many requests for this guidance over the last year...
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Package of the week: MIST
The interface is essential to many applications such as Windows Forms or WPF data binding. Implementing it can however be fastidious, and involves quite a lot of boilerplate code. MIST simplifies this using IL weaving and a custom Visual Studio build task. With MIST, you can use simple auto-...
You can now install the July 2017 Quality Update for WPF. It applies to multiple Windows versions.
This update resolves known issue 4033488. It is recommended on machines that have installed the July 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup or the May 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup.
Quality and Reliability
This release contains the following ...
You can now install the Preview of Quality Rollup for the .NET Framework, released July 18th, 2017.
Preview of Quality Rollup releases are recommended for businesses that want to use and/or preview quality improvements as soon as they become available. These same quality improvements will typically be included in the following Security and ...
Get Started with F# as a C# developer
One of our previous posts, Why You Should Use F#, listed a few reasons why F# is worth trying out today. In this post, we'll cover some of the basics you need to know to be successful. This post is intended for people who are coming from a C#, Java, or other object-oriented background. The concepts ...
Updated (2017/7/27)
We are releasing .NET Core SDK usage data that has been collected by the .NET Core CLI. We have been using this data to determine the most common CLI scenarios, the distribution of operating systems and to answer other questions we've had, as described below.
As an open source application platform that collects usage data...
This post was co-written by Daniel Podder and Bertrand Le Roy.
.NET Core 2.0 introduces many new optimizations that will make your code even faster. A lot of work has been done in the base class library to improve performance, but in this post, we'd like to talk about a specific category of optimization: profile-guided optimization (or PGO...
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Package of the week: Command Line Parser Library
Command-line applications typically accept arguments and options, and expose a page describing them. Parsing those arguments and options is a repetitive task that .NET provides little help for out of the box, beyond the argument to . Giacomo Stelluti Scala's Command Line ...
With a recent update to Visual Studio 2017, we have added support for debugging ASP.NET Core applications against IIS. This blog post will walk you through enabling this feature and setting up your project to use this feature.
Getting Started
To get started:
Enable IIS
Before you can enable Development time IIS support in ...