.NET Core 1.1.1 was released today. Both releases include reliability updates to improve the quality of .NET Core. You can download the .NET Core Runtime releases via our .NET Core Runtimes download page. If you are looking for the .NET Core SDK, to get the latest tools, try the .NET Core SDK download page. Have a look at the .NET announcement blog post for details and great context around the release. Visual Studio 2017 is also releasing today and you can read about it in their announcement.

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform ORM framework. This tutorial will help you get started with EF Core.

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In this second video, learn how to create a .NET Core app on Mac OS with Visual Studio for Mac and how to perform Roslyn code generation invoking the C# compiler. Download the code: https://github.com

It's taken awhile but it seems Microsoft is finally nailing the message for .NET going forward and .NET Standard with its common API specification is a huge part in making sure that the same base library of .NET is available on all .NET platforms. In this post I look at what .NET Standard is, how it works and what some of the surrounding issues and impacts are for the .NET Eco system.

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Note: Also be sure to read the follow-up to this post that covers a subsequent improvement in that you no longer have to specify the absolute path to Windows executables if they exist on your path! Content below updated to reflect this change! Windows 10 Insider build #14951 has just landed and includes a very exciting new...

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Why should you care about this post? You have or want to build an ASP.NET Web API app you want to run in a Windows Container You want to automate the building of an image to run that Windows-based ASP.NET Web API Click image for full size Figure 1: How this post can help you...