Today is the day some of us have been waiting for. Lots of cool stuff happening!

If you were waiting to kick of your new project with .Net Core, it is time now.

.Net Core 2.0

.NET Core 2.0 is available today as a final release. You can start developing with it at the command line, in your favorite text editor, in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac. It is ready for production workloads, on your own hardware or your favorite cloud, like Microsoft Azure.

You can find all the details around this release here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/08/14/announcing-net-core-2-0/

.Net Standard 2.0

You can find all the details around this release here:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/08/14/announcing-net-standard-2-0/

Entity Framework Core 2.0

Entity Framework (EF) Core is the lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework, the popular Object/Relational Mapping (O/RM) framework for .NET.

You can find all the details around this release here:

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3

For Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, the focus has been on improving accessibility, particularly using Visual Studio with the most popular screen readers. there has been over 1,700 improvements and still have some work to do, but if you are using Visual Studio 2017 in a low-vision or no-vision mode, a lot has improved.

You can find all the details around this release here:

Cheers!