The release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.2, ASP.NET Web API 2.2 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.2 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.2, ASP.NET Web API 2.2 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.2 using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: Prereq...

This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the fifth post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. Please see the first posts in this series, Dynamic Features in Static Code, Help! I Hit a MissingMetadataException!, Help! I Didn't Hit a MissingMetadataException!, and Making Your Libra...

This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the fourth post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. Please read the first post in this series, Dynamic Functionality in Static Code, before reading this post. As a .NET library author, you don’t necessarily have to do anything to h...

This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the third post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. Please see the two posts in this series, Dynamic Features in Static Code and Help! I Hit a MissingMetadataException!, before reading this post. Sometimes the only thing worse than havin...

Helge Mahrt has published an interesting blog post on his experience using .NET Native on his Windows Store app, 499+1px. The post includes a first-level performance analysis. Check out Helge's post!

This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the second post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. Please see the first post in this series, Dynamic Features in Static Code, before reading this post. So you've started out with .NET Native and you're seeing great performance gains, b...

This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the first post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. If you've read our previous blog posts on .NET Native, you might be wondering how all of this works. We've discussed the performance benefits of .NET Native and dug into the tool-chain b...

This week we published a new getting-started tutorial with sample project for Azure Cloud Services on the azure.microsoft.com site. This is a multi-tier application that uses Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage queues and blobs.  It’s designed to be as simple as possible for a multi-tier application with web and worker roles, so you can...

A month ago we announced support for SIMD. Today, we're announcing an update to "RyuJIT" and our NuGet package that exposes the SIMD programming model. Updates to the Microsoft.Bcl.Simd NuGet package More types for We've expanded the support of the types: Support for mutable vector types We've also changed our stance on immutability. In the p...

The .NET team released a security bulletin and a security advisory today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-026 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2958732) This update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework ...