.NET Blog

EF Core 8 Preview 4: Primitive collections and improved Contains

May 16, 2023 May 16, 2023 05/16/23

Shay Rojansky

Announcing Entity Framework Core 8 (EF8) Preview 4 with support for primitive collections and improved Contains

Level up your GPT game with prompt engineering

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

Luis Quintanilla

Learn what prompt engineering is and how to use it to improve the quality of your GPT completions.

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.

Upcoming availability of .NET Framework 4.8.1 on Windows Update and Catalog

May 9, 2023 May 9, 2023 05/9/23

Brett Lopez

We are excited to announce that in the coming weeks the .NET Framework 4.8.1 product will become available broadly on Windows Update (WU) and Microsoft Update Catalog for supported versions of Windows. The .NET Framework 4.8.1 product will first roll out to customers participating in the Windows Insider program through the Release Preview ...

Announcing a new version of the .NET Upgrade Assistant with support for .NET MAUI and Azure Functions!

May 2, 2023 May 2, 2023 05/2/23

Olia Gavrysh

The new version of .NET Upgrade Assistant is available in Visual Studio Marketplace with lots of updates and new features!

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!

Get Started with OpenAI Completions with .NET

April 26, 2023 Apr 26, 2023 04/26/23

Luis Quintanilla

Learn what completions are and how to use the Azure .NET SDK to generate them using OpenAI.

.NET Framework April 2023 Cumulative Update Preview Updates

April 25, 2023 Apr 25, 2023 04/25/23

Salini Agarwal

April 2023 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework

Let’s Learn .NET Virtual Events – All Around the World

April 25, 2023 Apr 25, 2023 04/25/23

Matt Soucoup

Part of what makes .NET amazing is the global community of developers who use it, and we're bringing more content localized for developers around the world!

Drawing Elements on Maps with .NET MAUI

April 25, 2023 Apr 25, 2023 04/25/23

James Montemagno

.NET MAUI now features a Map control that allows you not only to display a position with pins, but also render full geometry to essentially draw on a map! In this post I show you how to do it.