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CoreWCF 1.0 has been Released, WCF for .NET Core and .NET 5+

April 28, 2022 Apr 28, 2022 04/28/22

Sam Spencer

CoreWCF 1.0 has been released, the first major release of the project, and provides WCF functionality for .NET Core, .NET Framework and .NET 5+.

.NET MAUI Release Candidate 2 – With 100% More Tizen

April 26, 2022 Apr 26, 2022 04/26/22

David Ortinau

.NET MAUI Release Candidate 2 is now available with dozens of bug fixes full support for Tizen. Get started today to build app for Android, Windows, iOS, and macOS.

.NET Framework April 2022 Cumulative Update Preview

April 25, 2022 Apr 25, 2022 04/25/22

Salini Agarwal

We have released the April 2022 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework with several quality and reliability improvements.

C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more!

April 18, 2022 Apr 18, 2022 04/18/22

Kathleen Dollard

C# 11 features are coming along nicely and the most recent release features all sorts of goodies including updates to string literals, pattern matching, checked user-defined operators, and an update on !!.

Announcing .NET 7 Preview 3

April 13, 2022 Apr 13, 2022 04/13/22

Jon Douglas

.NET 7 Preview 3 is now available with enhancements to observability, startup times, codegen, GC regions, native AOT compilation, and more.

Announcing Entity Framework Core 7 (EF7) Preview 3

April 13, 2022 Apr 13, 2022 04/13/22

Jeremy Likness

Announcing the release of EF7 Preview 3 and custom database-first scaffolding with T4 templates.

.NET MAUI Release Candidate – Ready for cross-platform app development

April 12, 2022 Apr 12, 2022 04/12/22

David Ortinau

.NET MAUI Release Candidate is now feature complete, API stable for the upcoming GA release. Get started today to build app for Android, Windows, iOS, and macOS.