.NET Blog

Announcing .NET 8 RC1

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23

Leslie Richardson

.NET 8 RC1 is now available with improvements to System.Text.Json, a new AOT mode for Android and WASM, Azure Managed Identity support for containers, and more!

EF Core 8 RC1: Complex types as value objects

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23

Arthur Vickers

Announcing Entity Framework Core 8 (EF8) RC 1 with support for complex types used as value objects

Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Release Candidate 1: Quality

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23

David Ortinau

.NET MAUI in .NET 8 RC1 has more quality improvements for developers, and introduces the first step to supporting Xcode 15 beta and Apple SDKs.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Release Candidate 1

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23

Daniel Roth

.NET 8 Release Candidate 1 is now available! Check out what's new in ASP.NET Core in this update.

.NET September 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.11, .NET 6.0.22

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Check out latest September 2023 updates for .NET 7.0 and .NET 6.0

WPF File Dialog Improvements in .NET 8

September 8, 2023 Sep 8, 2023 09/8/23

Dipesh Kumar

Announing OpenFolderDialog control and other file dialog properties in WPF in .NET 8.

Demystifying Retrieval Augmented Generation with .NET

September 6, 2023 Sep 6, 2023 09/6/23

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Build a chat-based console app with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) from scratch.

New .NET Upgrade Assistant version with feature updates and .NET MAUI improvements!

August 29, 2023 Aug 29, 2023 08/29/23

Olia Gavrysh

The new version of .NET Upgrade Assistant is available in Visual Studio Marketplace with feature updates and .NET MAUI improvements!

Announcing the New Foundational C# Certification with freeCodeCamp

August 28, 2023 Aug 28, 2023 08/28/23

Katie Savage

The Foundational C# Certification with freeCodeCamp is now available! The certification is free, globally available, and includes a full training course.

.NET Framework August 2023 Cumulative Update Preview

August 23, 2023 Aug 23, 2023 08/23/23

Salini Agarwal

August 2023 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework