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August 2015 - .NET Blog

The future of Unity

August 21, 2015 Aug 21, 2015 08/21/15
Immo Landwerth
This post was written by Christopher Bennage (@bennage), a member of the Microsoft patterns & practices team.A few months ago, we announced that we were handing Prism over to new owners. We put a lot of time and effort into identifying owners that would invest in the project and support the community.Today, we are announcing a similar ...

ASP.NET Community Standup – August 18, 2015

August 20, 2015 Aug 20, 2015 08/20/15
Jeffrey Fritz
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup.  The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET 5 framework over the previous week.  Within 30 minutes...

Gen2 free list changes in CLR 4.6 GC

August 12, 2015 Aug 12, 2015 08/12/15
maoni
I wanted to mention this because I started seeing posts about it. In 4.6 we improved the way we use the gen2 free list to promote gen1 survivors into. Unfortunately there was a perf bug that I didn’t notice till it was fairly late so it wasn’t approved to be checked into 4.6 at the time. Now that I am seeing more people hitting it...

August 2015 .NET Security Updates

August 11, 2015 Aug 11, 2015 08/11/15
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released two security bulletins today as part of the monthly "Update Tuesday" cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-080 - Critical, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3078662) This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework. The most severe of the ...