Pretty much every app is network-connected and depends on fast and reliable networking to provide its intended experience. This includes both client- and server-side networking, and even both within the same app. There is also a lot of new development and diversity of requirements across networking protocols and systems.
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Today, we are releasing the June 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework for Windows 10, version 1809, Windows Server 2019, and Windows 10, version 1909.

Quality and Reliability

This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.

ClickOnce
Addresses a regression introduced in previous updates.
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Bing runs one of the world’s largest, most complex, highly performant, and reliable .NET applications. This post discusses the journey and the work required to upgrade to .NET 5, including the significant performance gains we achieved.

This application sits in the middle of the Bing architecture stack and is responsible for much of the coordination among thousands of other components that provide results for all queries.
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Diagnostics has always been a fundamental part of the .NET development experience. It enables developers to understand the runtime behavior of their programs, at both a high- and low-level. It’s also the set of tools that developers reach for to root-cause a failure and resolve it.
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Today, I’d like to show dotnet how to run your own .NET application on a Micro Controller Unit (MCU) on a simple battery for multiple years. I’ll build an application that will read the temperature and pressure on a BMP280 sensor connected to an ESP32.
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Model Explainability ensures you can debug or audit your machine learning models. By understanding how and why your model reacts in certain situations, you can ensure reliability and robustness, while avoiding bias.

Tell us about how you want to interpret your models and assess bias in ML.NET by taking this ~10 minute survey.
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The C++ static analysis team is committed to making your C++ coding experience as safe as possible. We are adding richer code safety checks and addressing high impact customer feedback bugs posted on the  C++ Developer Community page. Thank you for engaging with us and giving us great feedback on the past releases and early previews leading to this point.
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C++20 adds a new text formatting facility to the standard library, designed primarily to replace snprintf and friends with a fast and type safe interface. The standardized library is based on the existing {fmt} library, so users of that library will feel at home.
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Today, we are releasing the June 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework.

Security

The June Security and Quality Rollup Update does not contain any new security fixes. See February 2021 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates.
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Today, we are releasing the .NET June 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages.

You can download 5.0.7 , 3.1.16 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64,
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Containers have becomes the most popular way to deploy cloud-based apps. It’s also one of the most common topics that web developers ask us about. We’ve been spending more and more effort on improving .NET for containers with each release. It’s now just assumed as the primary deployment model for new features and scenarios.
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I’m excited to share with you some of the improvements that have been made to .NET that are coming in .NET 6 in the area of dates, times, and time zones. You can try out all of the following, starting with .NET 6 Preview 4.
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The .NET or Common Language Runtime (CLR) type system is the foundation of the .NET programming model. We often talk about System.Object being the base of the type system, but it’s really the base of all (reference) types. The type system is (at least) one step lower than that.
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We are excited to announce the availability of our Visual Studio Code Tye extension, which makes it easier to view, run, and debug applications that are using Tye from within Visual Studio Code.

This is a continuation of the Tye experiment,
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While the <chrono> header has been available as part of the STL since C++11, among the changes included in C++20 there were several extensions to chrono including support for calendrical types, time zones, leap seconds, and integration with format. A great deal of innovation and work was required in order to complete these additional features;
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Interop is the subsystem in the runtime that enables interoperability with other systems, like native C libraries or Objective-C. In some cases, it includes a full interop implementation like via P/Invoke or COM interop. In other cases, like for WinRT, it provides the building block APIs such that another (external) component can provide an end-to-end implementation.
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Hi there! My name is Hassan Habib, I’m a Sr. Engineering Manager @ Microsoft. This is my very first blog post on the ASP.NET team blog. You may know me from my OData posts. Few weeks ago I reached out to Daniel Roth wondering if it would be a good idea to share how Microsoft engineers use Microsoft products to build our own systems.
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We are happy to announce that CMake Presets preview support is available in the Visual Studio 16.10 release as well as CMake Tools version 1.7 for Visual Studio Code.

Erika introduced CMake Presets and why you should use them, this post will focus on how they can be used for Azure Sphere development across Visual Studio,
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We are proud to announce completion of our implementation of C++20 Ranges in the Standard Library in the VS2019 v16.10 release under/std:c++latest. We announced the first useful user-visible parts of Ranges in VS 2019 v16.6 in mid 2020, the trickle accelerated into a gushing stream,
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We’re excited to announce updates to the F# tools for Visual Studio 16.10. For this release, we’re continuing our trend of improving the F# experience in Visual Studio to build upon what was released in the VS 16.9 update last February.
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Today, we are releasing the May 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework.

Quality and Reliability

This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.

CLR1
Addresses a performance issue caused by incorrect configuration in the GC.

Addresses an issue where a background GC could pause the runtime for a long period of time if a large managed heap is filled with long lived objects with a deep chain of references.
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Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the fourth preview release of EF Core 6.0. The main theme of this release is performance – and we’ll concentrate on that below – details on getting EF Core 6.0 preview 4 are at the end of this blog post.
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.NET 6 Preview 4 is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core.

Here’s what’s new in this preview release:
Introducing minimal APIs

Async streaming

HTTP logging middleware

Use Kestrel for the default launch profile in new projects

IConnectionSocketFeature

Improved single-page app (SPA) templates

.NET Hot Reload updates

Generic type constraints in Razor components

Blazor error boundaries

Blazor WebAssembly ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation

.NET MAUI Blazor apps

Other performance improvements
Get started

To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 6 Preview 4,
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Today, we are excited to introduce you to the availability of the .NET Hot Reload experience in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (Preview 1) and through the dotnet watch command-line tooling in .NET 6 (Preview 4). In the rest of this blog post,
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Today we are pleased to announce the availability of .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) Preview 4. Each preview introduces more controls and features to this multi-platform toolkit on our way to general availability this November at .NET Conf. .NET MAUI now has enough building blocks to build functional applications for all supported platforms,
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We are delighted to release .NET 6 Preview 4. We’re now about half-way through the .NET 6 release. It’s a good moment to look again at the full scope of .NET 6, much like the first preview post. Many features are in close-to-final form and others will come soon now that the foundational building blocks are in place for the release.
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