Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:

• ASP.NET Core support for native AOT
• Server-side rendering with Blazor
• Render Razor components outside of ASP.NET Core
• Sections support in Blazor
• Monitor Blazor Server circuit activity
• SIMD enabled by default for Blazor WebAssembly apps
• Request timeouts
• Short circuit routes 

There is no question that the Polly library has had a big impact on the .NET community in providing useful resilience and transient fault handling policies in an accessible way to millions of projects. 

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 

ASP.NET Core in .NET 5 Preview 2 doesn’t include any major new features just yet, but it does include plenty of minor bug fixes. We expect to announce new features in upcoming preview releases. 

XAML Islands enable .NET and native Win32 applications to host UWP XAML controls. You can enhance the experience and functionality of your existing desktop applications with the latest UI innovations previously only available for UWP apps.  

Grial UI Kit provides XAML templates, custom controls, helpers and resources that accelerate the creation of Xamarin.Forms apps. We make it dead simple for .NET developers to build beautiful cross-platform apps, fast.

CoolStore is a containerised polyglot microservices application consisting of services based on .NET Core, NodeJS and more running on Service Mesh. It demonstrates how to wire up small microservices into a larger application using microservice architectural principals. 

Through this project of six sections, you will learn how Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect Edition can be used to design, create, deploy, and maintain enterprise-strength distributed applications