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.NET November 2021 Updates – 5.0.12 and 3.1.21

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

Sanket Kalaskar

Today, we are releasing the .NET November 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and other improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.12 and 3.1.21 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Improvements...

Announcing .NET 6 — The Fastest .NET Yet

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

Richard Lander

.NET 6 is now available. It is easier to use, runs faster, and has many new features.

What’s New for Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2022

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

Kathleen Dollard

Check out the great new features for Visual Basic developers in Visual 2022

Welcome to C# 10

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

Kathleen Dollard

Check out the great new features in C# 10 as part of .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022, that make your code prettier, more expressive, and faster.

Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 6

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

Daniel Roth

.NET 6 is now available! Check out all the new features and improvements in ASP.NET Core in .NET 6.

Introducing the .NET Tech Community Forums

November 4, 2021 Nov 4, 2021 11/4/21

James Montemagno

Today, we are launching the .NET Tech Community for developers to have deep technical discussions, share how-tos, talk best practices, and more.

.NET 6 Launches at .NET Conf, November 9-11

November 1, 2021 Nov 1, 2021 11/1/21

Beth Massi

.NET Conf is a free, three-day, virtual developer event that celebrates the major releases of the .NET development platform. This year .NET 6 launches at .NET Conf 2021. Come celebrate and learn about the new release.

Build client web assets for your Razor Class Library

November 1, 2021 Nov 1, 2021 11/1/21

Javier Calvarro Nelson

Learn how to integrate a build process for client web assets using tools like npm and webpack into the builds of your Razor Class Libraries.

Women IC (Individual Contributor) engineer mentoring ring

October 24, 2021 Oct 24, 2021 10/24/21

maoni

During this fiscal year I ran a women IC mentoring ring in the Developer Division at Microsoft. It was part of the women's mentoring ring program in our division. I've always felt a little sad when I looked around and saw very few women ICs at very senior levels. Most women who advanced to those levels became managers. This was what ...

.NET Hot Reload Support via CLI

October 23, 2021 Oct 23, 2021 10/23/21

Scott Hunter [MSFT]

Last week, our blog post and the removal of the Hot Reload capability from the .NET SDK repo led to a lot of feedback from the community. First and foremost, we want to apologize. We made a mistake in executing on our decision and took longer than expected to respond back to the community.