Microsoft Will Let Developers Update Legacy UWP Apps to .NET 9

A New Shine for .NET 9, AI Coming to the Tech Stack

ASP.NET is one of the most successful web application development frameworks by Microsoft. With every update, new and extended features are added that help developers deploy highly scalable and high-performance web applications.

When coupled with application monitoring and other performance tools, such as a profiler, ASP.NET becomes a powerful solution for building incredible apps.

Within the framework itself, there are myriad features to help you overcome common development challenges, do more with your apps, and boost performance. 

If Not a And b Then
  ...
Else
  ...
EndIf

if(!(a) && b)
{
...
}
else
{
}

public interface ICommand
{
}

public class Command1 : ICommand
{
}

public class Command2 : ICommand
{
}

ICommand command = new Command1();
if (!(command is Command2))
{

}

if (command is not Command2)
{

}

if ((command is ICommand) && !(command is Command2))
{

}

if (command is ICommand and not Command2)
{

}

if (command is Command1 or Command2)
{

}

var number = new Random().Next(1, 10);
if (number > 2 && number < 8)
{

}

if (number is > 2 and < 8)
{

}

public static bool IsLetterOrSeparator(char c) =>
   (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') || (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') || c == '.' || c == ',';

public static bool IsLetterOrSeparator(char c) =>
   c is (>= 'a' and <= 'z') or (>= 'A' and <= 'Z') or '.' or ',';

 var number = new Random().Next(1, 10);
 if (number <= 0)
 {
     Console.WriteLine("Less than or equal to 0");
 }
 else if (number > 0 && number <= 10)
 {
     Console.WriteLine("More than 0 but less than or equal to 10");
 }
 else
 {
     Console.WriteLine("More than 10");
 }

// C#9.0
 switch (number)
 {
     case <= 0:
         Console.WriteLine("Less than or equal to 0");
         break;
     case > 0 and <= 10:
         Console.WriteLine("More than 0 but less than or equal to 10");
         break;
     default:
         Console.WriteLine("More than 10");
         break;
 }

// C#7.0
 switch (number)
 {
     case int value when value <= 0:
         Console.WriteLine("Less than or equal to 0");
         break;
     case int value when value > 0 && value <= 10:
         Console.WriteLine("More than 0 but less than or equal to 10");
         break;
     default:
         Console.WriteLine("More than 10");
         break;
 }

 var message = number switch
 {
     <= 0 => "Less than or equal to 0",
     > 0 and <= 10 => "More than 0 but less than or equal to 10",
     _ => "More than 10"
 };

private static int GetDiscount(Product p) => p switch
        {
            Food => 0, // Food _ => 0 before C# 9
            Book b => 75, // Book b _ => 75 before C# 9
            _ => 25
        };

The .NET 7 release marks an exciting milestone in many ways, but one in particular that’s exciting for ASP.NET developers building distributed apps or apps designed to be cloud native and ready for dynamic horizontal scale out is the addition of the Orleans team to the broader .NET team. Bringing Orleans and ASP.NET Core closer together has led to some exciting ideas for the future of how we blend Orleans into the ASP.NET toolchain, and coupled with the huge advances in performance throughout .NET 7 are improvements to Orleans 7 that bring over 150% improvements to some areas of the Orleans toolchain. This post will introduce you to some of the new features in Orleans 7. 

What's New in Blazor for .NET 8
Come find out about the future of Blazor in .NET 8! We'll explore all the upcoming features and improvements, including our effort to create a unified full stack web UI programming model that combines the strengths of client and server. We hope to see you there!

You will learn:
How Blazor is becoming the best option for full stack web development
How Blazor in .NET 8 will provide full flexibility to build web apps however works best for you
How to try out the latest Blazor features in .NET 8
 

Building off the improvements to the managed sockets implementation in .NET Core we have changed the default transport in Kestrel from libuv to sockets.  

.NET Conf: Focus on Windows is a free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and Microsoft teams working on Windows desktop apps and making them fantastic on the latest .NET 5. Learn why and how to upgrade WPF and Windows Forms apps to .NET 5, see Visual Studio tooling improvements, learn how to leverage cloud services from your client apps, and a whole lot more. You'll also see what the future of native device development with .NET will look like in .NET 6.  

What’s new in 2.2

We’re publishing a series of posts here that go over some of the new feature areas in detail. We’ll update the post with links to these posts as they go live over the coming days:

• API Controller Conventions
• Endpoint Routing
• Health Checks
• HTTP/2 in Kestrel
• Improvements to IIS hosting
• SignalR Java client