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Performance Improvements in .NET 8
.NET 7 was super fast, .NET 8 is faster. Take an in-depth tour through over 500 pull requests that make that a reality.
.NET Framework September 2023 Security and Quality Rollup Updates
September 2023 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework.
Announcing .NET 8 Release Candidate 1
.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
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
.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
.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
Check out latest September 2023 updates for .NET 7.0 and .NET 6.0
WPF File Dialog Improvements in .NET 8
Announing OpenFolderDialog control and other file dialog properties in WPF in .NET 8.
Demystifying Retrieval Augmented Generation with .NET
Build a chat-based console app with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) from scratch.