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Jul 23, 2024
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Announcing .NET Conf: Focus on AI – August 20th 2024

Mehul Harry

We're thrilled to announce the upcoming .NET Conf: Focus on AI, happening on August 20th! This one-day, virtual event will be packed with insightful sessions from both the community and Microsoft teams, showcasing how you can infuse your .NET applications with powerful AI capabilities.

Jul 23, 2024
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What’s new in Aspire 8.1 for cloud native developers!

Mitch Denny

Let's take a look at what is new with Aspire 8.1 for building cloud native applications!

Jul 22, 2024
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Add AI to Your .NET Apps Easily with Prompty

Bruno Capuano

Learn how to integrate AI into your .NET applications with Prompty, a powerful Visual Studio Code extension.

Jul 18, 2024
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Introducing CoreWCF and WCF Client Azure Queue Storage bindings for .NET

Subhrajit Saha

The initial beta release of the official libraries Microsoft.CoreWCF.Azure.StorageQueues and Microsoft.WCF.Azure.StorageQueues.Client library for .NET is now available.

Jul 18, 2024
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.NET 6 will reach End of Support on November 12, 2024

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

.NET 6 will reach end of support on November 12, 2024, this blog breaks down all the valuable information you need to know and how to update to .NET 8.

Jul 17, 2024
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NuGetAudit 2.0: Elevating Security and Trust in Package Management

Andy,
Jon

Introduction In November 2023 (NuGet 6.8, Visual Studio 17.8, .NET SDK 8.0.100), we released NuGet Audit. NuGet Audit provides warnings during restore when a package with a known vulnerability is used by a project. More information about NuGet Audit, including detailed configuration options can be found on our learn website. New features are still being added, so if you haven’t read the docs recently, consider having another look, or check our release notes, to see if new features that may help you have been added. Here is a quick summary of available settings that will be available in NuGet 6.12, Visual Studio...

Jul 16, 2024
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Building a Safer Future – How NuGet is Tackling Software Supply Chain Threats

Jon Douglas

Despite significant technological progress in addressing complex security threats, the key to preventing the next attack lies in adhering to fundamental security principles. It's essential to ensure the software ecosystem is secure, focusing on protecting .NET developers who design, build, and maintain the critical software we all use. As the home to one of the world's largest developer communities, NuGet is in a unique position to help improve the security of the software supply chain. In 2022, we launched several initiatives aimed at enhancing supply chain security and prioritizing the protection of developers...

Jul 15, 2024
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.NET 9 Preview 6 is now available!

.NET Team

Try out the latest features in .NET 9 Preview 6 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and more!

Jul 11, 2024
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Why and How to Execute GraphQL Queries in .NET

Frank Boucher

This post shows how to query a GraphQL API in .NET using Strawberry Shake from a console application