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ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 Preview 4: Blazor Streaming, Form Handling, Native AOT, Identity API and More
The latest release of .NET 8 Preview 4 brings significant improvements to ASP.NET Core. Notable enhancements include Blazor's streaming rendering and form handling, expanded support for form binding in minimal APIs, Native AOT compilation for improved performance, enhanced authentication and authorization with Identity API endpoints, and the addition of metrics for application monitoring.
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Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials Align with Android 13
Microsoft made the announcement that Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials have been updated to target Android 13, aligning with Google's requirement for new Android apps to target at least Android 13 starting from August 2023. The update aims to ensure compatibility with the latest Android version and provide a smooth transition to the future of cross-platform development, .NET MAUI.
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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit 5.1.0: Lazy View and Keyboard Extensions
The latest release of the .NET MAUI Community toolkit, version 5.1.0, brings two main features and several bug fixes for the last version.
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.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Supports Azure Functions Upgrades and .NET 8
Microsoft has released a new version of .NET Upgrade Assistant in Visual Studio, which provides a set of new enhancements and support for different platforms and frameworks. The tool now supports .NET 8 and it also brings enhancements like an upgrade for Azure Functions, alongside .NET MAUI, WinUI and support for ARM64.
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.NET Community Toolkit 8.2: MVVM Toolkit Attributes, Performance Enhancements, and More
Microsoft has released the latest version of its .NET Community Toolkit, version 8.2, and it comes with several new enhancements and features. According to the release, this new version brings performance enhancements both at runtime and in the MVVM Toolkit source generators, new code fixers aimed at boosting productivity, and a number of user-requested features.
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Uno Platform for Figma Preview 5: Enhanced Features for Designers and Developers
Uno Platform has released Preview 5 of its Figma plugin, offering enhanced features for designers and developers. The latest version of the plugin allows the creation of custom colors, enables the import of Design Systems Packages (DSP), and offers new controls such as Pips Pager, TabBar, and ItemsRepeater for greater flexibility in creating dynamic designs.
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ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 8 Preview 3: Native AOT Support and More
Recently Microsoft released .NET 8 Preview 3. This new release contains many new improvements to ASP.NET Core such as support for native AOT, server-side rendering with Blazor, rendering Razor components outside of ASP.NET Core, sections support in Blazor or monitoring Blazor Server circuit activity.
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C# 12: Preview of Three New Features Coming
Microsoft has published the release post which covers the three exciting new features that will be included in the upcoming release of C# 12, the latest version of its popular programming language. These features include primary constructors for non-record classes and structs, using aliases for any type, and default values for lambda expression parameters.
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.NET MAUI 8 Preview 3: UI improvements, Memory Management, and NuGet Versioning
Microsoft has recently released the third preview of the .NET MAUI framework in .NET 8. This latest release includes UI improvements, focusing on memory management also. In addition, Preview 3 also brings support for NuGet package versions of the app. This means that developers will now have the ability to preview future builds and lock their applications to a specific version of .NET MAUI.
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Remote Development with JetBrains Rider
JetBrains provides access to Remote Development Beta. The tool works by locally running a thin client and connecting to the IDE backend which gives a fully functional user interface. It can be handled by JetBrains Rider or JetBrains Gateway. The workflow of the tool is smooth as editing is done locally and the JetBrains client synchronises changes with the backend.
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Visual Studio Extensibility SDK Preview 3: New Features for Building Productivity Extensions
Visual Studio Extensibility Preview 3 adds the Debugger Visualizers to simplify the debugging experience, Custom Dialogs to create tailored user interfaces, Query the Project System to access and interact with the project system, Editor Margin Extensions to add custom components to the margin of the code editor, and Extension Configuration options to give users more control over their extensions.
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Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2: Productivity, Game Development and Enterprise Management
Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2 is available, bringing new features and improvements for boosting productivity, game development, and enterprise management. The release includes updates such as a new Android Manifest Editor, Unreal Engine Code Analysis, HLSL Tools Extension, Create Member Function features, Git Stage and Commit During Build, Merge Dialog updates, and breakpoint groups, etc.
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Microsoft Showcases Reliable Web App Patterns for Resilient Cloud Applications
Microsoft has shared the source code and the documentation for the Reliable Web App pattern, a set of best practices that help on-premise web application developers create secure, reliable and cost-optimised cloud applications in Azure with minimal changes.
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Entity Framework Core 8 Preview 2 Released
Entity Framework Core 8 Preview 2 was released on March 14th. The most notable feature in EF Core 8 preview 2 is support for SQL Server hierarchical data.
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The Commoditization of Software Stack: How Application-First Cloud Services are Changing the Game
Cloud services are evolving, which influences how developers build distributed applications. At QCon London, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Diagrid, discussed the intersection of cloud-native technologies like Dapr with developer-focused cloud services.
Resources
Azure App Service 101: Moving your .NET Application to the Cloud
In this article Matt Soucoup talks about how Azure App Service makes an excellent first step for a .NET application's cloud journey. Learn more.
Introducing the Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET
Mayunk Jain will discuss how this pattern helps optimize the cost and improve your web application's performance, security, operations, and reliability with minimal changes when moving from on-premises infrastructure to Azure cloud. Learn more.
.NET on Azure for Beginners
Welcome to the .NET on Azure for Beginner series where you will learn the basics of getting your .NET applications up and running in Azure! Watch now.
Host a web application with Azure App Service
Azure App Service enables you to build and host web applications in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure. Learn more.