With this newest Blazor release we’re pleased to announce that Blazor is now in official preview! Blazor is no longer experimental and we are committing to ship it as a supported web UI framework including support for running client-side in the browser on WebAssembly. 

Here’s the list of what’s new in this preview:

• Razor Components renamed back to server-side Blazor
• Client-side Blazor on WebAssembly now in official preview
• Resolve components based on @using
• _Imports.razor
• New component item template
• Reconnection to the same server
• Stateful reconnection after prerendering
• Render stateful interactive components from Razor pages and views
• Detect when the app is prerendering
• Configure the SignalR client for server-side Blazor apps
• Improved SignalR reconnect features
• Configure SignalR client for server-side Blazor apps
• Additional options for MVC service registration
• Endpoint routing updates
• New template for gRPC
• Design-time build for gRPC
• New Worker SDK 

It includes a chart control for Windows Forms, HTTP/2 support, GC updates to use less memory, support for CPU limits with Docker, the addition of PowerShell in .NET Core SDK Docker container images, and other improvements.  

5 Top, No-Cost .NET Core Extensions for Visual Studio 2019 

First it is important to recognize that the .NET Framework is not the same as .NET Core. The .NET Framework is effectively now in maintenance mode , and all innovation is occurring in the open source .NET Core now and into the future. So step one to remaining relevant is to understand .NET Core (and the closely related .NET Standard). 

.NET Core Is 'Most Loved' Framework in Stack Overflow Survey 

the .NET Core April 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes.  

.NET Core Windows Desktop Apps