You can use the Themes of .NET Tool (themesof.net) to identify roadmaps and progress on various .NET releases. 

Have a repository on GitHub? Planning on making a repository on GitHub? This checklist is intended to introduce you to various features that may help you make the most of your GitHub repository with specific recommendations for C# repsoitories. 

.NET Conf: Focus on Microservices is a free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and .NET teams that are working on designing and building microservice-based applications, tools and frameworks. Learn from the experts their best practices, practical advice, as well as patterns, tools, tips and tricks for successfully designing, building, deploying and running cloud native applications at scale with .NET. 

As promised , we announced the open sourcing of MSTest Test Framework “MSTest V2”. The community now has a fully supported, open source, cross-platform implementation of the MSTest V2 portfolio with which to write tests targeting .NET Framework, .NET Core and ASP.NET Core on Windows, Linux, and Mac. 

Learning to Master Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Xamarin 

                                                 پس از نصب، این نسخه را می‌توانید در کنار نسخه‌ی اصلی، همزمان بر روی سیستم داشته باشید. 

• برای نصب کلی بر روی سیستم،  اینجا کلیک کنید و نسخه‌ی SDK Installer مناسب دستگاه خود را دانلود کنید (64 یا 32 بیتی).

• برای استفاده‌ی از EF Core آن در پروژه جاری می‌توانید آن‌‌را از اینجا  دانلود و یا بوسیله‌ی دستور زیر نصب کنید:
  

Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore -Version 2.2.0-preview3-35497

3- پس از نصب، ویژوال استودیوی preview را از همان مسیر visual studio، اجرا کنید. یک پروژه‌ی جدید از نوع وب را ایجاد کنید و فریمورک را بر روی بالاترین مقدار آن قرار دهید؛ مثل تصویر زیر:

بعد از ایجاد پروژه، می‌توانید در solution Explorer، ارجاعات جدید را مشاهده کنید:

Before we dive into the technical details, let’s start with a quick history lesson, courtesy of Don Syme who worked on adding generics to .NET and then went on to design and implement F#, which is a pretty impressive set of achievements!!

Background and History

• 1999 Initial research, design and planning
  • .NET/C# Generics History: Some Photos From Feb 1999
• 1999 First ‘white paper’ published
  • More C#/.NET Generics Research Project History – The MSR white paper
  • MSR White Paper: Proposed Extensions to COM+ VOS (Draft) (pdf)
• 2001 C# Language Design Specification created
  • Some History: 2001 “GC#” (Generic C#) research project draft
  • MSR - .NET Generics Research Project - Generic C# Specification (pdf)
• 2001 Research paper published
  • Design and Implementation of Generics for the .NET CLR (pdf)
• 2004 Work completed and all bugs fixed
  • Some more .NET/C# Generics Research Project History 

We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications.

This release includes the .NET Core runtime, libraries and tools and the ASP.NET Core libraries. We are also releasing Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code extensions that enable you to create .NET Core projects. You can get started at https://dot.net/core. Read the release notes for detailed release information.