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Conversation about the .NET type system

June 3, 2021 Jun 3, 2021 06/3/21

Richard Lander

Conversation with .NET engineers about the .NET type system. They share their perspective on value types vs structs, the murky boundary between C# and the CLR, upcoming type system enhancements, and also compare .NET and Java type systems.

Announcing Visual Studio Code extension for Tye

June 1, 2021 Jun 1, 2021 06/1/21

Pratik Sanglikar

Announcing the availability of Visual Studio Extension for Tye

Conversation about .NET interop

June 1, 2021 Jun 1, 2021 06/1/21

Richard Lander

Conversation with .NET engineers about native, language, and operating system interop. They share their perspectives on modern programming languages, low-level concepts like calling conventions and marshaling, performance, comparing .NET and Java Interop, and a new project that adds support for Interop with Objective-C.

Building Contextual Experiences w/ Blazor

May 30, 2021 May 30, 2021 05/30/21

Hassan Habib

Hi there! My name is Hassan Habib, I'm a Sr. Engineering Manager @ Microsoft. This is my very first blog post on the ASP.NET team blog. You may know me from my OData posts. Few weeks ago I reached out to Daniel Roth wondering if it would be a good idea to share how Microsoft engineers use Microsoft products to build our own systems. It's a ...

F# and F# tools update for Visual Studio 16.10

May 26, 2021 May 26, 2021 05/26/21

Phillip Carter

Visual Studio 16.10 comes with more updates to the F

.NET Framework May 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10, versions 2004, 20H2, 21H1

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Tara Overfield

Today, we are releasing the May 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 NCL2 WPF3 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Network Class Library (NCL) 3 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 4: Performance Edition

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Shay Rojansky

Learn about some serious optimizations that have gone into Entity Framework Core 6.0, and how much faster it now performs.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 4

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Daniel Roth

.NET 6 Preview 4 is now available! Check out all the improvements in ASP.NET Core in this update.

Introducing the .NET Hot Reload experience for editing code at runtime

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Dmitry Lyalin

Introducing the new .NET Hot Reload user experience for editing managed code at runtime, now available through the Visual Studio 2019 debugger and dotnet watch.

Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 4

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

David Ortinau

(image) Today we are pleased to announce the availability of .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) Preview 4. Each preview introduces more controls and features to this multi-platform toolkit on our way to general availability this November at .NET Conf. .NET MAUI now has enough building blocks to build functional applications for all ...