Microsoft today officially announced the release date of the next feature update for Windows 10, formerly referred to as the "Spring Creators Update" but known officially as the "Windows 10 April 2018 Update."
Blazor is the new Microsoft experimental framework that brings C# into any browser without a plug-in. It holds the promise of modern single-page applications, combined with the ability to use C# and its vast base-class library. Blazor takes C# development to a new level. It’s the final piece necessary to make the language a full-stack development tool. It will have all the power of the popular JavaScript frameworks, but based on the familiar languages, APIs and tooling of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
We're pleased to announce the availability of a new major version, Rx v6.0.
- 🚀 First update in 2.5 years, with support for .NET 7.0, .NET 6.0, .NET Standard 2.0, .NET Framework 4.7.2
- ✂️ Support for trimming
- 🪲 Now using .snupkg for symbols
- 💥 New options for dealing with unhandled exceptions
- 🛠️ Modernised tooling and DevOps processes to reflect .NET as of H1 2023
- 💪 288 hours of effort went into this release.
- 🤞 Much more to come in v7.0 in H2 2023
These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this release:
.NET 9 LINQ Performance Improvements
Benchmark comparisons between .NET 8 and .NET 9 show that certain LINQ queries execute up to 30% faster, depending on the dataset and query complexity. These improvements are particularly impactful for performance-critical applications, where even small gains can add up to substantial boosts.
This release contains the following improvements and enhancements:
- This release now installs Java™ Development Kit 8, Update 181 (JDK version 8u181).
These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.6:
- Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 does not report the install state in a specific registry location.
- In 15.7 users may see extensions load without all of their assets and cause VS to crash. This has been addressed for 15.7.6.
- Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.5 crashes when opening a solution.
NET Conf is our annual virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft and sponsored by the .NET Foundation and ecosystem partners. It is a chance to learn and get inspired for your next software project. You will learn to build for web, mobile, cloud, desktop, games, services, libraries and more for a variety of platforms and devices all with .NET. We have sessions for everyone, no matter if you are just beginning or are a seasoned engineer. We’ll have presentations on .NET 7, C# 11, Azure, Visual Studio, and much more.
You can download .NET 6 Preview 1, for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Installers and binaries
- Container images
- Linux packages
- Release notes
- Known issues
- GitHub issue tracker
.NET 6 has been tested with Visual Studio 16.9 Preview 4 and Visual Studio for Mac 8.9. We recommend you use those builds if you want to try .NET 6.
At Microsoft Build Live today, we are sharing a first look at our plans for .NET Core 3. The highlight of .NET Core 3 is support for Windows desktop applications, specifically Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), and UWP XAML. You will be able to run new and existing Windows desktop applications on .NET Core and enjoy all the benefits that .NET Core has to offer.
We developers spend lot of our time reading code. We read code so that we know how to change it to implement a new feature, fix a bug, etc. It is much better to work in a code base where code is easy to read and understand.
One thing that can make code readable is good naming. Giving variables, classes, and methods good names makes code easier to read.
