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Oct 10, 2023

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Release Candidate 2

Daniel Roth

.NET 8 Release Candidate 2 is now available! Check out what's new in ASP.NET Core in this update.

Oct 10, 2023

Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Release Candidate 2: More Quality

David Ortinau

.NET MAUI in .NET 8 RC2 has still more quality improvements for developers, and we have some bonus news.

Oct 10, 2023

EF Core 8 Release Candidate 2: Smaller features in EF8

Arthur Vickers

A tour through some of the smaller features release in Entity Framework Core 8 (EF8) RC 2.

Oct 10, 2023

.NET October 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.13, .NET 6.0.24

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

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

Oct 5, 2023

The convenience of System.Text.Json

Richard Lander

JSON is one of the most common formats in apps today and .NET has great APIs for reading and writing JSON documents. It's a great example of the convenience of .NET.

Oct 4, 2023

C# Dev Kit – Now Generally Available

Wendy Breiding (SHE/HER)

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension that brings an improved editor-first C# development experience to Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Oct 3, 2023

Arm64 Performance Improvements in .NET 8

Kunal Pathak

.NET 8 added some key features for new functionality as well as performance improvements for developers including developers targeting Arm64 devices. In this blog I break down everything you need to know about the improvements in .NET 8.