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Update to the .NET language strategy

February 6, 2023 Feb 6, 2023 02/6/23

Kathleen Dollard

Interested in what is going on and the future of .NET languages, (C#, F#, and Visual Basic)? We have just published an updated version of the .NET Language Strategy on our documentation!

Using Command Binding in Windows Forms apps to go Cross-Platform

January 25, 2023 Jan 25, 2023 01/25/23

Klaus Loeffelmann

The WinForms code-behind approach has always made app development in WinForms unrivaled fast. For complex line-of-business apps, however, it can become an architectural challenge. New Command- and Data Binding Features in .NET 7 make UI-Controllers and MVVM an alternative and allow them also be reused in UI stacks like .NET MAUI.

Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.1! Better, faster MVVM source generators, .NET 7 support, and more!

January 18, 2023 Jan 18, 2023 01/18/23

Sergio Pedri

We’re happy to announce the official launch of the .NET Community Toolkit 8.1 release, bringing with it some new highly requested features, improvements, new analyzers and major performance optimizations to the MVVM Toolkit source generators!

Top .NET Blog Posts of 2022

December 30, 2022 Dec 30, 2022 12/30/22

James Montemagno

Let's take a look back at the top .NET blogs posts from 2022!

Polyglot Notebooks – Now with .NET 7, C# 11, and F# 7 Support!

December 12, 2022 Dec 12, 2022 12/12/22

Claudia Regio

The December 2022 release of the Polyglot Notebooks extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This release includes upgrades to .NET 7, support for C# 11 and F# 7, and improvements to the SQL and KQL kernel experience!

Custom Controls for WinForm’s Out-Of-Process Designer

December 5, 2022 Dec 5, 2022 12/5/22

Klaus Loeffelmann

A rich user control ecosystem has always been one of the most important WinForms success guarantors. While the runtime support for Custom Controls remains unchanged, there are breaking changes with the design time support for the new Windows Forms (WinForms) .NET Designer.

Welcome to C# 11

November 8, 2022 Nov 8, 2022 11/8/22

Mads Torgersen

C# 11 is here! Bringing with it some highly anticipated features including string literals, generic math, required members, and much more.

Announcing .NET Community Toolkit v8.1.0 Preview 1

November 4, 2022 Nov 4, 2022 11/4/22

Sergio Pedri

We’re happy to announce the first preview of the upcoming .NET Community Toolkit 8.1 release is now live, bringing with it some new highly requested features and major performance optimizations to the MVVM Toolkit source generators!

.NET Interactive Notebooks is now Polyglot Notebooks!

November 3, 2022 Nov 3, 2022 11/3/22

Claudia Regio

The .NET Interactive Notebooks extension in Visual Studio Code has been renamed to Polyglot Notebooks! Checkout what is new in this release for developers.

Create your .NET portfolio in the .NET Conf student zone

November 2, 2022 Nov 2, 2022 11/2/22

Katie Savage

Join the .NET Student Zone on November 7 to build a .NET project portfolio!

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