.NET Blog

Secure your .NET cloud apps with rootless Linux Containers

March 21, 2023 Mar 21, 2023 03/21/23

Richard Lander

Learn about patterns for securing your containers with a non-root user, and changes to .NET container images in .NET 8 to enable this behavior.

.NET Performance Delivers Again for Bing, From .NET 5 to .NET 7

March 21, 2023 Mar 21, 2023 03/21/23

Ben Watson

.NET has continued to deliver significant performance gains for Bing through multiple releases.

File and Folder dialogs in .NET MAUI with CommunityToolkit

March 20, 2023 Mar 20, 2023 03/20/23

Vladislav Antonyuk

Effortlessly incorporate file system dialogs in your .NET MAUI applications.

Announcing: Azure Developers – .NET Day

March 20, 2023 Mar 20, 2023 03/20/23

Mehul Harry

Join us on April 5th for a full day of online training and discover the latest services and features in Azure designed specifically for .NET developers.

How Async/Await Really Works in C#

March 16, 2023 Mar 16, 2023 03/16/23

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Async/await was added to the C# language over a decade ago and has transformed how we write scalable code for .NET. But how does it really work? In this post, we take a deep dive into its internals.

Announcing Polyglot Notebooks! Multi-language notebooks in Visual Studio Code

March 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 03/15/23

Claudia Regio

Polyglot Notebooks in VS Code is now generally available! Come try it out!

Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET week #2 recap and final week overview

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Ayca Bas

Join us for Hack Together, our virtual hackathon to learn how to build powerful apps with Microsoft Graph and .NET and win exciting prizes.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 2

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Daniel Roth

.NET 8 Preview 2 is now available! Check out what's new in ASP.NET Core in this update.

EF Core 8 Preview 2: Lite and familiar

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Arthur Vickers

Announcing Entity Framework Core 8 (EF8) Preview 2 with support for JSON columns in SQLite and HierarchyId in SQL Server/Azure SQL

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 2

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Alexandra Barry

.NET 8 Preview 2 contains a few updates/new features from Preview 1, including introspection support for function pointers, as well as some other runtime and libraries improvements.