.NET 8 introduces metrics to ASP.NET Core. Check out what is new and discover how easy it is to use metrics and ASP.NET Core to monitor the health and activity of apps.
Route tooling is a group of new features in .NET 8 that makes ASP.NET Core routing easier to use. Check out what route tooling adds to building ASP.NET Core apps.
Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code now support IntelliSense for `appsettings.json`. IntelliSense allows you to quickly edit your app's configuration and get immediate feedback on available properties or typos.
ASP.NET Core 3.0 adds support for gRPC, an opinionated contract-first remote procedure call framework. This blog post compares gRPC to JSON HTTP APIs, discusses gRPC's strengths and weaknesses, and when you could use gRPC to build your apps.