First, the decoupling of .NET from Windows
Second, the newfound focus on CLR performance
Third, moving .NET’s tooling to a cross-platform model
Fourth, the .NET user base is embracing the OSS ecosystem as a whole
Fifth, in general the direction on .NET development is pushing users further down into the details of the stack
Sixth, Microsoft’s platform work being done out in the open

namespace CS11Tests;

public static class NewLinesStringInterpolations
{
    public static void Test()
    {
        var month = 8;
        var season = $"The season is {month switch
        {
            >= 1 and <= 3 => "spring",
            >= 4 and <= 6 => "summer",
            >= 7 and <= 9 => "autumn",
            10 or 11 or 12 => "winter",
            _ => "Wrong month number",
        }}.";
        Console.WriteLine(season);

        int[] numbers = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 };
        var message = $"The reversed even values of {nameof(numbers)} are {string.Join(", ",
            numbers.Where(n => n % 2 == 0).Reverse())}.";
        Console.WriteLine(message);
    }
}

JS web frameworks benchmark – Round 8 

• Custom tasks with default contextType via tasks.vs.json are broken in Open Folder.
• No snapshot created for C++ native code in Memory Usage tool in the Diagnostic Tools window while debugging.
• Crash in VS 16.1.0 when pressing the link "search online".
• Fixed the issue where sometimes certain features (i.e. Find All References) in LiveShare guest session do not work.
• Fixed an issue where the devenv.exe process could hang around after shutdown of Visual Studio for up to 30 seconds. 

Target Framework             Default for AnalysisLevel
net5.0                       5
netcoreapp3.1 or lower       4
netstandard2.1 or lower      4
.NET Framework 4.8 or lower  4

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
    <!-- get more advanced warnings for this project -->
    <AnalysisLevel>5</AnalysisLevel>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
    <!-- be automatically updated to the newest stable level -->
    <AnalysisLevel>latest</AnalysisLevel>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

<AnalysisLevel>preview</AnalysisLevel>

<!-- I am just fine thanks -->
<AnalysisLevel>none</AnalysisLevel>

<PropertyGroup>
  <AnalysisMode>AllEnabledByDefault</AnalysisMode>
</PropertyGroup>

<PropertyGroup>
   <CodeAnalysisTreatWarningsAsErrors>false</CodeAnalysisTreatWarningsAsErrors>
</PropertyGroup>

<PropertyGroup>
   <EnableNETAnalyzers>true</EnableNETAnalyzers>
</PropertyGroup>

<PropertyGroup>
   <EnforceCodeStyleInBuild>true</EnforceCodeStyleInBuild>
</PropertyGroup>

<Project>
  <PropertyGroup>
    <AnalysisLevel>latest</AnalysisLevel>
    <AnalysisMode>AllEnabledByDefault</AnalysisMode>
    <CodeAnalysisTreatWarningsAsErrors>true</CodeAnalysisTreatWarningsAsErrors>
    <EnableNETAnalyzers>true</EnableNETAnalyzers>
    <EnforceCodeStyleInBuild>true</EnforceCodeStyleInBuild>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

C# Source Generators

A list of C# Source Generators (not necessarily awesome), because I haven't found a good list yet.

C# Source Generators is a Roslyn compiler feature introduced in C#9/.NET 5. It lets C# developers inspect user code and generate new C# source files that can be added to a compilation. 

Today, we are releasing the .NET June 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages.

You can download 5.0.7 , 3.1.16 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64.