.NET Blog

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.

.NET Core 2.1 container images will be deleted from Docker Hub

Richard Lander August 16, 2021 Aug 16, 2021 08/16/21

Starting on August 21st, .NET Core 2.1 Docker container images will no longer be available on Docker Hub, but exclusively on Microsoft Container Registry (MCR). Read on for more information.

Introducing DevOps-friendly EF Core Migration Bundles

Jeremy Likness August 16, 2021 Aug 16, 2021 08/16/21

EF Core's new migration bundles generate binary artifacts that you can use to deploy schema and data changes as part of your continuous delivery process.

Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 7

David Ortinau August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

.NET MAUI Preview 7 is now available with new layouts, improved accessibility, font scaling, and more.

Preview Features in .NET 6 – Generic Math

Tanner Gooding [MSFT] August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

If you’ve ever wanted to use operators with generic types or thought that interfaces could be improved by supporting the ability to define static methods as part of their contract, then this blog post is for you. With .NET 6 we will be shipping a preview of the new generic math and static abstracts in interfaces features.

String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6

Stephen Toub - MSFT August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Text processing is at the heart of huge numbers of apps and services, and in .NET, that means lots and lots of System.String. String creation is so fundamental that a myriad of ways of creating them have existed since .NET Framework 1.0 was released, and more have joined the fray since. Whether via String's constructors, or StringBuilder, or ...

Announcing .NET 6 Preview 7

Richard Lander August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

.NET 6 Preview 7 is now available.

.NET August 2021 Updates – 5.0.9, 3.1.18, 2.1.30

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT) August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Today, we are releasing the .NET August 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and other improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.9 , 3.1.18, 2.1.30 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Update: The...

.NET Framework August 2021 Security and Quality Rollup

Tara Overfield August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Today, we are releasing the August 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security This release does not contain any new security fixes. See February 2021 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1...

.NET Framework July 2021 Cumulative Update Preview

Tara Overfield July 29, 2021 Jul 29, 2021 07/29/21

Today, we are releasing the July 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework. Security The July Cumulative Update Preview does not contain any new security fixes. See February 2021 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability ...