In this series I answer various .NET questions. Some of them are asked during interviews, some of them I see on the internet, some of them are completely made up. The goal is to provide short answer with links to references if needed. This is by no means a .NET tutorial or experts reference, this is just a bunch of useful answers to refresh your knowledge. 

.NET Core 3.1 is nearing end-of-support
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My guess is that this could be part of a long-term strategy to retire the full .NET Framework , rather than bringing any real value to .NET Core or desktop applications. 

Today, we will go through what's new and hot in .NET 7. I know you're a busy developer, and keeping up with what is happening is hard. That's why I am telling you everything you need to know.

MathSharp is a vector and matrix library written in C# using hardware intrinsics. Thanks to hardware acceleration, MathSharp is significantly faster than most mathematics libraries out there, but only supports .NET Core 3.0 and up. 

rssheap is a free open source web and mobile based reader built entirely on the .NET platform. Our mission is to help developers discover great content online and filter all the junk on the internet. 

Now you can upgrade any .NET application to the latest version of .NET inside of Visual Studio! We are happy to introduce it as a Visual Studio extension and will upgrade your .NET Framework or .NET Core web- and desktop apps. In this video, Olia shows you how to get the extension and start to update your projects to the latest version of NET in minutes. 

In a nutshell: jspm combines package management with module loading infrastructure and transpilers to provide a magical experience. You can write code using today’s JavaScript, or tomorrow’s JavaScript (ES6), and use any type of module system you like (ES6, AMD, or CommonJS). jspm figures everything out. By integrating package management with a smart script loader, jspm means less work for us. 

"Going forward, we do not plan to evolve Visual Basic as a language," the .NET team said. "This supports language stability and maintains compatibility between the .NET Core and .NET Framework versions of Visual Basic. Future features of .NET Core that require language changes may not be supported in Visual Basic. Due to differences in the platform, there will be some differences between Visual Basic on .NET Framework and .NET Core."  

Compiling DirectShow.Net for use in .NET 5