What's On Tap for .NET 8 (Preview 1 Coming this Month) 

Blazor United prototype
A quick look at some of the experiments we're considering for Blazor in .NET 8 

.NET Aspire is a new framework from Microsoft for simplifying cloud-native development with .NET. It provides an opinionated stack and developer experience for building resilient, observable applications.  

.NET Core 1.1.0 Preview 1 and SDK 1.0.0 Preview2.1 are available for download and testing. 

If you are updating to EF Core 8, consider using the daily builds, or wait for the 31 fixes coming in 8.0.2 in Februrary 2024 

• Smart support for C# 8.0 language features such as indices, ranges, and unmanaged generic structs, as well as many new quick-fixes, inspections, and context actions. 

We are happy to release .NET 6 Release Candidate 1. It is the first of two “go live” release candidate releases that are supported in production.  

Repository for the Packt Publishing book titled "C# 12 and .NET 8 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals" by Mark J. Price  

What's new in .NET 8 for Web frontends backends and futures?  

One Blazor Template to Rule Them All in .NET 8

In .NET 8 there is a new project in town that unifies the developing experience between Blazor Server and Blazor Web Assembly application models. In this video we will go over the new template and how we can get started using it!