.NET Blog

Performance Improvements in .NET 6

August 17, 2021 Aug 17, 2021 08/17/21

Stephen Toub - MSFT

.NET 6 is chock-full of exciting performance improvements.

.NET Core 2.1 container images will be deleted from Docker Hub

August 16, 2021 Aug 16, 2021 08/16/21

Richard Lander

Starting on August 21st, .NET Core 2.1 Docker container images will no longer be available on Docker Hub, but exclusively on Microsoft Container Registry (MCR). Read on for more information.

Introducing DevOps-friendly EF Core Migration Bundles

August 16, 2021 Aug 16, 2021 08/16/21

Jeremy Likness

EF Core's new migration bundles generate binary artifacts that you can use to deploy schema and data changes as part of your continuous delivery process.

Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 7

August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

David Ortinau

.NET MAUI Preview 7 is now available with new layouts, improved accessibility, font scaling, and more.

Preview Features in .NET 6 – Generic Math

August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Tanner Gooding [MSFT]

If you’ve ever wanted to use operators with generic types or thought that interfaces could be improved by supporting the ability to define static methods as part of their contract, then this blog post is for you. With .NET 6 we will be shipping a preview of the new generic math and static abstracts in interfaces features.

String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6

August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Text processing is at the heart of huge numbers of apps and services, and in .NET, that means lots and lots of . creation is so fundamental that a myriad of ways of creating them have existed since .NET Framework 1.0 was released, and more have joined the fray since. Whether via 's constructors, or , or overrides, or helper methods on like...

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 7

August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Daniel Roth

.NET 6 Preview 7 is now available! Check out all the improvements in ASP.NET Core in this update.

Announcing .NET 6 Preview 7

August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Richard Lander

.NET 6 Preview 7 is now available.

.NET August 2021 Updates – 5.0.9, 3.1.18, 2.1.30

August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Today, we are releasing the .NET August 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and other improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.9 , 3.1.18, 2.1.30 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Update: The...

.NET Framework August 2021 Security and Quality Rollup

August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Tara Overfield

Today, we are releasing the August 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security This release does not contain any new security fixes. See February 2021 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1...