.NET 5.0.0 - November 10, 2020

The .NET 5.0.0 and .NET SDK 5.0.100 releases are available for download. The latest 5.0 release is always listed at .NET 5.0 Releases.

Downloads

Microsoft updates Windows 10 version 1511 with KB 3124262
 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.2:

• MFC EXE (binary) size is 5 times bigger in VS 15.8 (_MSC_VER = 1915).
• Key 'OPENSSH' is not supported.
• Windows magnifier can no longer track keyboad cursor.
• Analysis fails with immediately-invoked lamba in while loop.
• Xamarin iOS designer not working with 15.9 and Xamarin.iOS 12.2.1.10.
• We improved the reliability of incremental linking for large C++ projects.
• LNK2001 "unresolved external symbol" errors for certain vector deleting destructors will now be resolved.
• Compiler execution time has been improved for code that makes heavy use of chained, inline functions involving lambdas or local classes as parameter or return types. 

Windows 10 has something called Windows Subsystem for Linux and this something enables us to run Linux applications on Windows 10 using Linux without need for Hyper-V or other virtual machines. When building multi-platform applications like my open-source TemperatureStation solution then having Linux right there for testing comes very handy. This blog post shows how to get Linux running on Windows, how to install .NET Core and how to run web applications on Linux. 

Account

A bank account allows us to send and receive money and has its unique number. Anytime we tell about an account in a bank, an account is always a bank account. In the other hand, an account in an information system is used to authorize a user. We have the term "account" meaning something absolutely different in two different domains. Domain has an impact on what we imagine when someone says a concrete term. So we have to learn and specify domain terms first.

Price

Let's speak about e-shop domain. What is a price? For us, as customers, it is how much we pay. A manager can think about price as an amount that his company pays to the supplier. For an accountant, a price is just a number. And e-shop programmer is now confused.

Language is crucial because customers and experts are telling their stories in their language. But it is also natural language, inaccurate, ambiguous, context-aware. And as we can see, language can be tricky even within one domain. 

The new .NET framework is modern, lean, modular and open source. No longer is .NET a system-wide installation – it is merely a folder. Instead of a huge underlying framework, you only pick and choose the pieces of the .NET framework that you need in your apps. And more importantly, you can package the required components of the .NET framework right alongside your app. We’re entering an age of app-runtime silos and ultimate portability. 

Ivy, sweet Ivy

This is a long awaited release for the community, as Ivy is now the default compiler/renderer in Angular 🌈.