ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 is your complete solution for modern web development. It handles all of your web development needs from the frontend to the backend. You can build beautiful, richly interactive web experiences with Blazor, and high-performance backend APIs and services that are reliable and secure. ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 is perfect for building cloud-native apps, and great tooling in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code supercharges your productivity. With ASP.NET Core in .NET 8, every developer is a full stack developer! 

Repository for the Packt Publishing book titled "C# 12 and .NET 8 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals" by Mark J. Price  

.NET Aspire is a new framework from Microsoft for simplifying cloud-native development with .NET. It provides an opinionated stack and developer experience for building resilient, observable applications.  

ASP.NET Core 8 and .NET 8 bring many exciting performance improvements. In this blog post, we will highlight some of the enhancements made in ASP.NET Core and show you how they can boost your web app’s speed and efficiency.  

.NET 8 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core!

This is the last release candidate that we plan to share before the final .NET 8 release later this year. Most of the planned features and changes for .NET 8 are part of this release candidate and are ready for you to try out. You can find the full list of what’s new in ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 in the docs. 

LinqBenchmarks

Benchmarks comparing the performance of LINQ against for/foreach loops and the following libraries:

Faslinq
Cistern.ValueLinq
JM.LinqFaster
LinqFasterer
LinqAF
SpanLinq
StructLinq
NetFabric.Hyperlinq
System.Linq.Async
 

In .NET 8, we’re investing in improving the debugging experience of commonly used types in .NET apps. These include:

• HttpContext and friends
• WebApplication
• MVC and Razor Pages
• gRPC
• Endpoint metadata
• Logging
• Configuration 

Devs Demand Visual Studio 2022 Ditch Old .NET Framework Dependencies 

Performance Improvements in .NET 8 

MVC in .NET 8
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