"Our goal with Angular 2 is to make the best possible set of tools for building web apps not constrained by maintaining backwards compatibility with existing APIs." —Angular blog 

As anyone in the .NET community who hasn't been living under a rock will know, there's a lot of exciting things happening with .NET at the moment with the announcement of the open source, cross platform, .NET Core. However, partly due to the very open nature of its evolution, there's been a whole host of names associated with its development - vNext, ASP.NET 5, ASP.NET Core, .NET generations etc.

In this post I'm going to try and clarify some of the naming and terminology surrounding the evolution of the .NET framework. I'll discuss some of the challenges the latest iteration is attempting to deal with and how the latest developments aim to address these.

This is really for those that have seen some of the big announcements but aren't sure about the intricacies of this new framework and how it relates to the existing ecosystem, which was my situation before I really started digging into it all properly!

Hopefully by the end of this article you'll have a clearer grasp of the latest in .NET! 

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

• Improved Blazor accessibility
• Required Blazor component parameters
• Efficient byte array transfers for JavaScript interop
• Optional parameters for view component tag helpers
• Angular template updated to Angular 12
• OpenAPI support for minimal APIs
• Inject services into minimal APIs without [FromServices] attribute
• Configure the accept socket for Kestrel
• IHttpActivityFeature
• Long running activity tag for SignalR connections
• WebSocket compression
• SignalR WebSockets TestServer support
• New OnCheckSlidingExpiration event for controlling cookie renewal
• ClientCertificateMode.DelayCertificate 

 Its value MUST be a number containing a NumericDate value.

 A JSON numeric value representing the number of seconds from 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z UTC until the specified UTC date/time, ignoring leap seconds. This is equivalent to the IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition [POSIX.1] definition "Seconds Since the Epoch", in which each day is accounted for by exactly 86400 seconds, other than that non-integer values can be represented. See RFC 3339 [RFC3339] for details regarding date/times in general and UTC in particular.

Microsoft today shipped the sixth preview of .NET 5, saying the milestone release designed to combine all things .NET is only two steps away from becoming feature complete in Preview 8, with the final GA release scheduled for November.  

This blog post contains a mind map of language features starting from C# 1 up til now - including some of the new C# 12 features that will be released in November 2023.

Symbol support
We’ve added support for the Symbol type added in ES6/ES2015. Essentially, this means that jQuery objects can be iterated with for-of where supported.

for (element of $elements) {
    console.log(element);
}