Performance Improvements in .NET 9

Each year, summer arrives to find me daunted and excited to write about the performance improvements in the upcoming release of .NET. “Daunted,” because these posts, covering .NET 8, .NET 7, .NET 6, .NET 5, .NET Core 3.0, .NET Core 2.1, and .NET Core 2.0, have garnered a bit of a reputation I want to ensure the next iteration lives up to. And “excited,” because there’s such an abundance of material to cover due to just how much goodness has been packed into the next .NET release, I struggle to get it all written down as quickly as my thoughts whirl.

At work, we are planning to migrate our WPF application from .NET Framework 4.7 to .NET Core 3.0. The main reason for doing so is that it was always a big pain to organize the updates of the .NET Framework on our customer machines. So being able to bundle .NET Core with our application is a big plus for us. Then, for sure, we are looking for the performance improvements brought by .NET Core and finally the new capabilities brought by the fast pace of innovation of .NET Core. 

By default the .NET Framework/Mono variants are still used, but you can opt into having the .NET 6.0 builds by setting the following in your VS Code settings

{
    "omnisharp.useModernNet": true
}

Azure Functions are one of the best examples of serverless applications. By default you can't use Dependency injection: here's how you can configure it by adding the Startup class.

Today we are releasing the first preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5. You can either download it from here, or if you already have Preview installed, you’ll receive a notification that the update is available. 

In this post, I explain how to use Microsoft Report in MVC 4. Most of the developer use Microsoft Report (rdlc) for generating report  in asp.net application. Here I have explained how we can use Microsoft Report (rdlc) in MVC 

After looking over the Microsoft landscape over the years, there are a number of directions you can take in your career. Today, I go over "career tiers" of Microsoft technology paths in the IT industry.