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

You can download 5.0.5 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64.

• Installers and binaries: 5.0.5
• Release notes: 5.0.5
• Container images
• Linux packages: 5.0.5
• Release feedback/issues
• Known issues: 5.0  

Want to learn about the latest and greatest in the 64-bit Visual Studio 2022? Join Scott Hanselman and Visual Studio product team as they take Visual Studio 2022 for a spin.

20:27 Profiling .NET apps in Visual Studio 2022 

23:19 Cross platform apps with WSL and CMake in Visual Studio 2022 

26:07 Testing your .NET app on Linux 

28:00 Easily create CI/CD pipelines using GitHub actions with Visual Studio  2022

30:40 Balloon drop! 

 WebAssembly is one of the newest technologies to hit the web dev world with some promising new features around performance and expanding the boundaries of web languages. We’ll take a look at using it with Blazor to allow .NET developers to create a SPA. 

How Much Are GitHub Stars Worth to You? 

How To Keep Healthy If You Are A Software Programmer 

ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 is your complete solution for modern web development. It handles all of your web development needs from the frontend to the backend. You can build beautiful, richly interactive web experiences with Blazor, and high-performance backend APIs and services that are reliable and secure. ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 is perfect for building cloud-native apps, and great tooling in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code supercharges your productivity. With ASP.NET Core in .NET 8, every developer is a full stack developer! 

We decided to use Qt for our next Geospatial Intelligence Desktop App, but the .NET Core performance was close to Qt and both easily outperformed the JavaFX prototype. So, we are going to use .NET Core for our Geospatial Intelligence Services backend. 

Here are the lists of new APIs obtained:

• 28 New Namespaces
• 359 New Types
• 359 New Types and their 3.845 Members
• 1.044 New Methods in Types that were already there in .NET Core 2.2
• 166 New Fields (mostly Enumeration Values) in Types that were already there in .NET Core 2.2  

Today, we are releasing updates to the .NET Core SDK, included in Visual Studio 2017 RC. You can also install the .NET Core SDK for use with Visual Studio Code or at the command line, on Windows, Mac and Linux. Check out the Visual Studio blog to learn more about this Visual Studio 2017 update.