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Join us for HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack

May 12, 2023 May 12, 2023 05/12/23

Waldek Mastykarz

Join us for HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack, our virtual hackathon to learn how to build powerful apps for Microsoft Teams.

Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.2! Faster generators, code fixers, performance improvements and more!

April 27, 2023 Apr 27, 2023 04/27/23

Sergio Pedri

We're happy to announce the official launch of the .NET Community Toolkit 8.2 release, featuring performance improvements to the libraries and source generators, new code fixers and requested features, and more!

Check out new C# 12 preview features!

April 11, 2023 Apr 11, 2023 04/11/23

Kathleen Dollard

The first set of C# 12 features are here in preview including primary constructors, using aliases, and lambda expression parameters.

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 3

April 11, 2023 Apr 11, 2023 04/11/23

Jiachen Jiang

.NET 8 Preview 3 is now available, with changes to build paths, workloads, Microsoft.Extensions, and containers. It also includes performance improvements in the JIT, for Arm64, and dynamic PGO.

Create a portfolio website without installing any tools

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

Katie Savage

Create, customize, and deploy your own portfolio website in minutes without installing any tools.

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.

Join us for Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23

Waldek Mastykarz

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

Updated Modern Code Generation for WinForm’s InitializeComponent

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

Klaus Loeffelmann

When you design a WinForms Form, it gets generated into a method called InitializeComponent. When you reopen that Form, it gets recreated by interpreting that code. In Visual Studio 2022 17.5, we've modernized the code generation process. And made some changes.