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This post was written by Vicky Harp, Program Manager on SqlClient and SQL Server Tools. Those of you who have been following .NET development closely have very likely seen Scott Hunter's latest blog post, .NET Core is the Future of .NET. The change in focus of .NET Framework towards stability and new feature development moving to .NET Core means SQ...

We introduced .NET Core 1.0 on November 2014. The goal with .NET Core was to take the learning from our experience building, shipping and servicing .NET Framework over the previous 12 years and build a better product. Some examples of these improvements are side-by-side installations (you can install a new version and not worry about breaking exist...

Upcoming Updates for .NET Framework 4.8 The .NET Framework 4.8 product release is now available. The .NET Framework 4.8 product will receive updates on the same cadence and the usual channels (Windows Update, WSUS, Catalog) as all .NET Framework and Windows cumulative updates. For Windows 10, .NET Framework 4.8 updates will now be delivered as ...

We are thrilled to announce the release of the .NET Framework 4.8 today. It’s included in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update. .NET Framework 4.8 is also available on Windows 7+ and Windows Server 2008 R2+. You can install .NET 4.8 from our .NET Download site. For building applications targeting .NET Framework 4.8, you can download the NET 4.8 Develo...

Today, we released the March 2019 Update for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Getting the Update The Update is available via Windows Server Update Services and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Cat...

I recently worked with a couple customers migrating applications to .NET Core that had to make code changes to workaround and methods on delegates not being supported on .NET Core. In this post, we'll look at why these APIs aren't implemented for .NET Core, why their usage isn't caught by the .NET API Portability Analyzer, and how to fix code usi...

Today, we released the March 2019 Update. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Getting the Update The Update is available via Windows Server Update Services and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Catalog You can get the update via the Microsoft Update Ca...

Today, March 1, we released the February 2019 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019. This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.

In this post, I will describe how to port a desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core. I picked a WinForms application as an example. Steps for WPF application are similar and I'll describe what needs to be done different for WPF as we go. I will also show how you can keep using the WinForms designer in Visual Studio even though it is un...

As we get closer to the final version, our efforts are focused on stabilizing the release over the coming weeks. Please keep up the support by trying out our latest preview 3745 and provide any feedback you may have for the build or for .NET 4.8 overall, via the .NET Framework Early Access GitHub repository. Supported Windows Client versions: Wi...