.NET Blog

Announcing .NET 6 Release Candidate 1

Richard Lander September 14, 2021 Sep 14, 2021 09/14/21

.NET 6 Preview RC1 is now available.

.NET September 2021 Updates – 5.0.10 and 3.1.19

Sanket Kalaskar September 14, 2021 Sep 14, 2021 09/14/21

Today, we are releasing the .NET September 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and other improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.10 and 3.1.19 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Improvements...

Update on .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI)

Scott Hunter [MSFT] September 14, 2021 Sep 14, 2021 09/14/21

The next .NET MAUI preview is now available.

Taking the EF Core Azure Cosmos DB Provider for a Test Drive

Jeremy Likness September 8, 2021 Sep 8, 2021 09/8/21

An overview of some enhancements to the Azure Cosmos DB provider for Entity Framework Core introduced in EF Core 6.0. Includes a reference project that demonstrates implicit ownership, primitive collections and raw SQL.

File IO improvements in .NET 6

Adam Sitnik September 1, 2021 Sep 1, 2021 09/1/21

High-performance File IO

Introducing the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit (Preview)

Brandon Minnick August 31, 2021 Aug 31, 2021 08/31/21

Announcing the first preview release of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit

Learn to build applications with F#

Jon Galloway August 30, 2021 Aug 30, 2021 08/30/21

Want to learn how to write write succinct, robust, and performant code with F#? Here's everything you need to get started today!

New .NET 6 APIs driven by the developer community

David Fowler August 23, 2021 Aug 23, 2021 08/23/21

.NET 6 is on the way, and I wanted to share some of my favorite new APIs that you are going to love.

Understanding the cost of C# delegates

Paulo Morgado August 18, 2021 Aug 18, 2021 08/18/21

Delegates are widely used in C# (and .NET, in general), but it's not always obvious to the developer what code they write ends up generating. In this post, I'll show the various forms to make you aware of their costs.

Performance Improvements in .NET 6

Stephen Toub - MSFT August 17, 2021 Aug 17, 2021 08/17/21

.NET 6 is chock-full of exciting performance improvements.