November 12, 2014

Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 4 Release to Manufacturing (RTM).
This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2013.

More information:
http://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs2013-update4-rtm-vs

Download full ISO:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=512594

SHA-1 Values:
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2013-iso-sha1-vs

They also released the new Visual Studio Community 2013:
http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs

 

• Update build tools to match .NET 6 Preview 3 SDK. (PR: omnisharp-roslyn#2134) 

.NET 5 Preview 7 is now available and is ready for evaluation. Here’s what’s new in this release:

• Blazor WebAssembly apps now target .NET 5
• Updated debugging requirements for Blazor WebAssembly
• Blazor accessibility improvements
• Blazor performance improvements
• Certificate authentication performance improvements
• Sending HTTP/2 PING frames
• Support for additional endpoints types in the Kestrel sockets transport
• Custom header decoding in Kestrel
• Other minor improvements 

Microsoft has announced that the .NET Core 2.0 will be considered "end of life" and thus no longer supported as of October 1, 2018.  .NET Core 2.0 is considered a non-LTS release, and as such Microsoft only commits its support for three months after a successor has been released.  In this case, with .NET Core 2.1 having been released May 31, .NET Core 2.0’s end has come. 

PostSharp 5.1 will focus on providing support for .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET Core 2.0. Our objective is to port the PostSharp compiler itself to .NET Standard 2.0 so that we can compile .NET Standard and .NET Core applications natively, without cross-compilation. PostSharp 5.1 will still only support Windows as the only build platform. 

This post shows how to import and export .xls or .xlsx (Excel files) in ASP.NET Core. And when thinking about dealing with excel with .NET, we always look for third-party libraries or component. And one of the most popular .net library that reads and writes Excel 2007/2010 files using the Open Office Xml format (xlsx) is EPPlus. However, at the time of writing this post, this library is not updated to support .NET Core. But there exists an unofficial version of this library EPPlus.Core which can do the job of import and export xlsx in ASP.NET Core. This works on Windows, Linux and Mac. 

.NET Core 5 is open source on GitHub
Microsoft will support .NET Core 5 on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Microsoft has contributed .NET Core 5 to the .NET Foundation
.NET Framework 4.6 reference source now uses the MIT license
Renewed collaboration with the Mono Project