We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications.

This release includes the .NET Core runtime, libraries and tools and the ASP.NET Core libraries. We are also releasing Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code extensions that enable you to create .NET Core projects. You can get started at https://dot.net/core. Read the release notes for detailed release information. 

2021 was no exception and the following are some of the new areas where you’ll now find WebAssembly

• • The Disney+ Application Development Kit is using WebAssembly: https://medium.com/disney-streaming/introducing-the-disney-application-development-kit-adk-ad85ca139073
  • A simplified version of Photoshop on the web was released: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/26/22738125/adobe-photoshop-illustrator-web-announced
  • Microsoft’s Flight Simulator has a WebAssembly-based plugin system: https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Programming_Tools/WASM/WebAssembly.htm
   

 Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS and Windows. https://kodi.tv/  

For this release our team been has been focusing on performance, polish, and stability. We’ve been working on speeding up the compiler and editing experience, getting rid of friction and papercuts, and reducing bugs and crashes.  

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI
.NET MAUI simplifies the choices for .NET developers, providing a single stack that supports all modern workloads: Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows.
 

In .NET 7, we've finished the moving the thread pool to be fully managed. The timer queue and the windows IO thread pool have been moved to managed code.  

Note: This is the source code for ASP.NET Identity 2.2. ASP.NET Identity 3.0 is part of ASP.NET 5 and the source code is on GitHub.  

WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle. 

wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are open source (LGPLv3) command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the Qt WebKit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service. 

C# Today and Tomorrow
Mads Torgersen discusses how C# is evolving, how the teams work in the open source space, and some of the future features and changes to the language (C# 7).