Microsoft’s second preview of its planned .NET 8 software development platform spruces up the ASP.NET Core web framework with a high-performance grid component and enhanced WebAssembly performance.
Microsoft .NET 8 Preview 2 was unveiled March 14 and is downloadable from dotnet.microsoft.com.
ASP.NET Core highlights in the new .NET 8 preview include a high-performance Blazor grid component, called QuickGrid, for displaying data in tabular form. It offers capabilities such as sorting, filtering, paging, and virtualization. Blazor is a framework for building client-side web UIs in C#.
