It includes a chart control for Windows Forms, HTTP/2 support, GC updates to use less memory, support for CPU limits with Docker, the addition of PowerShell in .NET Core SDK Docker container images, and other improvements.  

Microsoft Corp. and LinkedIn Corporation on announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $26.2 billion, inclusive of LinkedIn's net cash. 

In the .NET framework 4+, there is enhanced support for parallel programming, including new class library types, Tasks, Parallel For, Parallel Linq, and concurrent collections. Check out some of these features here. 

Soon the next major version of the framework will come out, which breaks backward compatibility. Apparently, even developers of the framework realized that there is something wrong and decided to rewrite the framework almost from scratch. They don’t add new functionality, breaking backward compatibility, they rewrite almost everything. 

YARP is a reverse proxy toolkit for building fast proxy servers in .NET using the infrastructure from ASP.NET and .NET. The key differentiator for YARP is that it's been designed to be easily customized and tweaked to match the specific needs of each deployment scenario. 

If you been given the unenviable task of migrating your .NET Core project from ‘project.json’ to MSBuild (csproj), you are likely to find your muscle memory disrupted and the documentation lacking. Automated upgrades in Visual Studio and .NET Core CLI may aut 

CommunityToolkit/dotnet: .NET Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers and APIs that work for all .NET developers and are agnostic of any specific UI platform. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation. 

Anatomy of the .NET dictionary

The internals of the .NET Dictionary class is a very common interview topic, so the information in this post might come in handy one day. Alternatively, use this new-found knowledge to impress friends and colleagues at every opportunity!

Today, we are shipping .NET 5.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the first of two RCs before the official release in November. RC1 is a “go live” release; you are supported using it in production. 

Here’s what’s new in this preview release:

• .NET Hot Reload updates for dotnet watch
• ASP.NET Core SPA templates updated to Angular 11 and React 17
• Use Razor syntax in SVG foreignObject elements
• Specify null for Action and RenderFragment component parameters
• Reduced Blazor WebAssembly download size with runtime relinking
• Configurable buffer threshold before writing to disk in Json.NET output formatter
• Subcategories for better filtering of Kestrel logs
• Faster get and set for HTTP headers
• Configurable unconsumed incoming buffer size for IIS