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I have to put a disclaimer here since this is not the usual type of blog posts I write. I’m by no means a master at communication. This is just what I thought that seemed to work well. YMMV of course.
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In Server GC, each GC thread will work on its heap in parallel (that's a simplistic view and is not necessarily true for all phases but on the high level it's exact the idea of a parallel GC). So that alone means work is already split between GC threads.
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Today, we are releasing the .NET Core March 2020 Update. These updates only contain non-security fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages.
NOTE: If you are a Visual Studio user, there are MSBuild version requirements so use only the .NET Core SDK supported for each Visual Studio version.
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The Roslyn team continuously works to provide tooling that deeply understands the code you are writing in-order to help you be more productive. In this post, I’ll cover some of the latest .NET Productivity features available in Visual Studio 2019.
Tooling improvements
The feature that I’m most excited about is the new Go To Base command.
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We’re excited to announce that F# 5 preview 1 is now available! Here’s how to get it:
Install .NET 5 preview SDK
Install Jupyter Notebooks for .NET
If you’re using Visual Studio on Windows, you’ll need both the .NET 5 preview SDK and Visual Studio Preview installed.
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Today, we are releasing an update for .NET Framework 4.8 on Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update) and Windows Server 2016.
Security
This update does not contain any new security fixes. See January 2020 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates.
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We released a preview version of Visual Studio 16.6 – Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 1 and with it a new version of .NET Core Windows Forms designer.
This release contains
Support for the following controls:
FlowLayoutPanel,
GroupBox,
ImageList,
MenuStrip (via the PropertyBrowser and context menu),
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The async/await feature in C# has revolutionized how developers targeting .NET write asynchronous code. Sprinkle some async and await around, change some return types to be tasks, and badda bing badda boom, you’ve got an asynchronous implementation. In theory.
In practice,
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Today we are excited to announce the first preview release of EF Core 5.0.
Prerequisites
The previews of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1. This means:
EF Core 5.0 runs on .NET Core 3.1; it does not require .NET 5.
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At the end of last year, we shipped .NET Core 3.0 and 3.1. These versions added the desktop app models Windows Forms (WinForms) and WPF, ASP.NET Blazor for building single page applications and gRPC for cross-platform, contract-based messaging. We also added templates for building services,
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