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Microsoft .NET 7 zeroes in on containers and cloud
Now available in the first preview, .NET 7 promises significant improvement to .NET development with containers.
Visual Studio 2022 update improves search, Git integration
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.1 is now generally available for production use, while Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 is available in a preview.
Run PHP on .NET with PeachPie
.NET is much more than Microsoft’s own tools and languages. The open source PeachPie brings PHP to the table.
Microsoft .NET 7 Preview 1 coming this week
Microsoft is marking the 20th birthday of .NET with the first preview of the next version of the platform.
How to work with IAsyncDisposable in .NET 6
Take advantage of the IAsyncDisposable interface to dispose of objects in a non-blocking way and make your .NET applications more efficient.
Microsoft .NET Community Toolkit backs .NET 6
Preview 1 of .NET Community Toolkit 8.0.0 adds .NET 6 support and brings a number of enhancements to the MVVM toolkit.
Microsoft .NET MAUI Preview 11 updates Windows UI styling
Latest preview of the successor to Xamarin.Forms introduces support for Windows 11 UI styles and multi-window applications on MacOS, iPadOS, and Windows.
Visual Studio 2022 update offers Git improvements
C++ reference searches, code cleanup, autosaves, and stack traces also get attention in planned upgrade.
Demystifying the Program and Startup classes in ASP.NET Core
Program and Startup are the main classes for configuring .NET applications. Learn how to use them in ASP.NET Core 6.
Take advantage of .NET 6 on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has updated Azure’s main PaaS services with the latest release of .NET. Here’s the skinny on .NET 6 support in Azure Functions, Azure App Service, and Azure Static Web Apps.
Microsoft reveals plans for Entity Framework 7.0
Themes for the next version of the object-relational mapper for .NET include support for JSON columns and raw SQL queries for unmapped types.
How to use the minimal hosting model in ASP.NET Core 6
The minimal hosting model in ASP.NET Core 6 means having to write less boilerplate code to get your application up and running.
Using WiX to build Windows installers
With a little bit of XML you can automate creating Windows installers for your code, right from your CI/CD pipeline.
Windows Forms advances in .NET 6 but still needs work
Supporting display DPI awareness and sharing display configuration information between the Windows Forms runtime and designer have been challenging, Microsoft said.
Microsoft’s F# 6 boosts performance, ease
Design goals for the new version were to make it simpler, more performant, easier to learn, and more uniform and interoperable with other .NET languages.
How to resolve dependencies in ASP.NET Core
Explore three different ways to resolve dependencies in ASP.NET Core 6, using constructor injection, action method injection, or IServiceProvider instances.
Microsoft’s C# 10 promises ‘prettier’ code
Major upgrade to the .NET programming language arrives with new capabilities designed to improve speed and expressiveness.
What’s new in Microsoft .NET 6
Next-gen software development platform that unites the .NET Framework and .NET Core is now available in a production release.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 arrives
64-bit upgrade to Microsoft’s flagship IDE ushers in new features to support faster, easier coding and larger, more complex projects.
How to improve StringBuilder performance in C#
Take advantage of best practices for using StringBuilder to reduce memory allocations and improve the performance of your string operations.