1. Building the ASP.NET Core Runtime for ARM64
2. Building the .NET Core SDK for ARM64 

Microsoft's second preview of .NET 8 is just "a quick follow-up" to Preview 1, highlighted by a couple of improvements to Blazor, for creating web apps in C# instead of JavaScript.

1. .NET has better Performance 
2. Node.js requires to mix & match languages to compensate for performance 
3. C# is an amazing language 
4. Best tooling available 
5. Easier built-in development loop 
6. Stable ecosystem 
7. Compliance, privacy, and security 

Channels are a construct that simplifies concurrent execution and pipelining of data and is often touted as one of the main draws of Go. But did you know that .NET also has built-in support for channels? 

Starting with the June 2022 servicing update for Visual Studio 2019 16.11 and Visual Studio 2019 16.9, the .NET 5.0 component in Visual Studio will be changed to out of support and optional 

You'll have to migrate to .NET 5 in the near future, and this article will help you prepare for this inevitable migration and avoid the last-minute, unexpected problems that will come up if you procrastinate. 

NuGet 5.8 is included in Visual Studio 16.8 and .NET 5.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 5.8 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. 

We are happy to announce that we are open sourcing (#2553) native components in WPF – wpfgfx_cor3.dll and penimc_cor3.dll. With this, we have completed all planned open-sourcing work for WPF on .NET Core.