.NET Blog

Introducing the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit (Preview)

Brandon Minnick August 31, 2021 Aug 31, 2021 08/31/21

Announcing the first preview release of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit

Learn to build applications with F#

Jon Galloway August 30, 2021 Aug 30, 2021 08/30/21

Want to learn how to write write succinct, robust, and performant code with F#? Here's everything you need to get started today!

New .NET 6 APIs driven by the developer community

David Fowler August 23, 2021 Aug 23, 2021 08/23/21

.NET 6 is on the way, and I wanted to share some of my favorite new APIs that you are going to love.

Understanding the cost of C# delegates

Paulo Morgado August 18, 2021 Aug 18, 2021 08/18/21

Delegates are widely used in C# (and .NET, in general), but it's not always obvious to the developer what code they write ends up generating. In this post, I'll show the various forms to make you aware of their costs.

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 ...