Tag: .NET 6

May 4, 2023

ASP.NET has many templates that help you get started with development on the .NET ecosystem. The templates offer Server Side Rendering (Razor Pages, MVC, Blazor Server) and Client Side Rendering (Blazor WebAssembly) solutions, as well as Single Page Applications (Angular, […]

March 24, 2023

Recent updates to the WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework are covered in-depth in a blog post published by Microsoft. The original blog post explains the advantages users can expect to experience by updating their applications to the most recent .NET […]

September 22, 2022

Microsoft announced last August that its multi-platform UI framework, MAUI, had been officially released and out of preview, with the launch of Visual Studio 2022 for Windows. The release marks the official launch of the new framework for .NET programmers […]

July 21, 2022

Microsoft .NET 6 arrived in November 2021 with all kinds of great new features for .NET developers. The biggest highlight of .NET 6, though, is ASP.NET Core 6, a major upgrade of Microsoft’s open source framework for building modern web […]

June 30, 2022

Microsoft .NET 6 is the culmination of the .NET unification that started with .NET 5. Cross-platform .NET 6 merges the .NET Core, .NET Framework, and Xamarin/Mono technologies into a single .NET Framework, unifying the SDK and runtime for desktop, mobile, […]

March 8, 2022

AWS Lambda recently added support for .NET 6, as both a managed runtime and a container base image. The new runtime introduces new .NET language features and performance optimizations, improves logging and simplifies function definition using top-level statements. The new […]

February 7, 2022

Last year, Microsoft released the latest version of the .NET framework, the .NET 6. This version includes many new features and improvements related to the ASP.NET Core framework, increasing the capabilities available for developers and simplifying the development process. ASP.NET […]

January 28, 2022

Microsoft is previewing .NET Community Toolkit 8.0.0, a new version of the .NET toolkit that adds .NET 6 support and new MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) toolkit capabilities. The .NET Community Toolkit is a collection of APIs and helpers for all .NET developers, […]

January 5, 2022

The November 2021 launch of .NET 6 introduced the first Long Term Support (LTS) version of the new .NET Core-based unified platform. Supported until November 2024, .NET 6 is intended for production code that needs a stable foundation. You can […]

November 23, 2021

The runtime for Windows Forms, Microsoft’s UI framework for building Windows desktop applications, was spruced up with the recent release of .NET 6.0, although high-DPI and scaling issues remain to be resolved for the application. In a bulletin on Windows […]

October 18, 2021

.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms that expands capabilities beyond mobile Android and iOS into native desktop apps for Windows and macOS. The latest version of it, Preview 9 is here and brings a lot […]

September 29, 2021

The next release of the .NET platform is around the corner. The new annual cadence of releases makes .NET 6 the first long-term support release of the unified .NET. That makes it a more important event than most as it’s […]

August 19, 2021

.NET 6, the planned upgrade to Microsoft’s software development platform, boasts performance improvements in areas ranging from just-in-time (JiT) compilation and garbage collection (GC) to JSON, according to Microsoft. In a lengthy blog post published August 17, Steven Toub, a […]

August 9, 2021

While numerous libraries exist to abstract away the complexities of asynchronous and concurrent programming, developers still need to drop down to lower thread-handling logic from time to time. Continuing our API changes for .NET 6 series, we look at some […]

June 4, 2021

Before performing a large set of inserts into a Dictionary or HashSet, it is helpful to call EnsureCapacity with the expected collection size. This allows the collection to perform one resize operation upfront, avoiding the possibility of multiple resizes being […]

April 23, 2021

Microsoft’s Amanda Silver has announced that the company will be releasing the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 this summer (2021Q3). This latest version of the long-standing tool will be fully 64-bit, and is featuring improved collaboration tools and support […]

April 13, 2021

A long-standing problem with .NET’s Base Class Library is the inability to separately represent date and time values. As part of .NET 6, the new DateOnly and TimeOnly classes seek to correct this oversight. Since the 90’s, Windows programmers have […]