.NET 6 will reach end of support on Nov 12, 2024. After that, Microsoft will no longer provide updates for .NET 6. Security fixes and technical support will no longer be available for .NET 6. You’ll need to update to .NET 8 before this date to stay supported.
Fluent interfaces are software API's designed to be readable and to flow. They are like a miniature domain-specific language, code structured for one specific purpose.
- The assembly discovery mechanism in type scanning has new methods to scan for “.exe” files as Assembly candidates. I had removed “.exe” file searching in 4.0 thinking that it was more problematic than helpful, then several users asked for it back.
- The assembly discovery handles the PrivateBinPath of the AppDomain in all (known) cases now
- Child container creation is thread safe now
MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database that makes it a great backend for Web APIs which lend themselves towards a document store rather than a relational store. In this blog we show how you can use MongoDB with ASP.NET Web API to build an ApiController with support for HTTP GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE.
1. ASP.NET on OSX and Linux
2. No More Web Forms
3. No More Visual Basic
4. Tag Helpers
5. View Components
6. GruntJS, NPM, and Bower Support
7. Unified MVC and Web API Controllers
8. AngularJS
9. ASP.NET Dependency Injection Framework
10. xUnit.net
Here’s what’s new in this preview release:
[FromServices] attributeIHttpActivityFeature OnCheckSlidingExpiration event for controlling cookie renewal
• GC, JIT
• C#
• Coherent Framework
• XSP….ASP+…ASP.NET!
• WinForms
• Mobile ASP.NET controls
• Built-in support for ODBC and Oracle databases.
• IPv6 support.
• ASP.NET for the Masses
○ Application Building Blocks
§ Parts, Authentication, Role Management, etc
○ Visual Web Developer
• Client Development
• ClickOnce!
• Windows CardSpace - Digital identity interface.
• Windows Presentation Foundation : WPF
○ Vector Graphics, Media and UI
○ Enters the age of UX
• Windows Communication Foundation : WCF
○ Unified messaging model
• Windows Workflow Foundation : WF
○ Coordinating work with durable applications
• Linq
• Expression Trees and Lamda Methods
• Extension Methods
• Paging Support for ADO.NET
• Managed Wrappers for WMI and AD
• Enhancements to WCF and WF
• System.CodeDom namespace
• ASP.NET AJAX
• WCF/WF
○ REST Services
○ Workflow Services
• Client
○ Sync
○ Client app services
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• ADO.NET
○ Entity Framework
○ Data Services (Astoria)
• WCF
○ AtomPub ServiceDocuments
• Client
○ Client Profile
○ Performance
§ Working set and startup time
• Silverlight 2
○ RTM end of 2008
○ Brings power of .NET to the web client
○ Media and RIA .NET platform
• Base Class Library Improvements
○ Managed Extensibility Framework
○ More Core Data Structures
○ I/O Improvements
• Parallel Computing
○ Task Parallel Library
○ Parallel Linq (PLINQ)
○ Coordination Data Structures (CDS)
• Client
○ WPF
§ Client Profile
§ Business Focused Controls
§ Win7 Advances (Multi-touch, etc)
○ ADO.NET
§ Entity Framework v2
□ Code-First Development
□ TDD Support
□ Foreign-Key Support
○ ASP.NET
§ ASP.NET Dynamic Data Improvements
§ ASP.NET MVC
§ ASP.NET Dynamic Data for MVC
§ Extensible Caching Framework
○ WF & WCF
§ Fully Declarative Services
§ Workflow Enhancements
□ New flowchart modeling
□ Workflow Rules Integration
□ … much more…
§ WCF Enhancements
□ Durable Duplex
□ WS-Discovery & UDP Channel
□ In-Process Channel
§ RIA (Silverlight)
□ Simplified N-tier development
□ Business-focused framework