.NET Blog

Announcing: Azure Developers – .NET Day

March 20, 2023 Mar 20, 2023 03/20/23

Mehul Harry

Join us on April 5th for a full day of online training and discover the latest services and features in Azure designed specifically for .NET developers.

How Async/Await Really Works in C#

March 16, 2023 Mar 16, 2023 03/16/23

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Async/await was added to the C# language over a decade ago and has transformed how we write scalable code for .NET. But how does it really work? In this post, we take a deep dive into its internals.

Announcing Polyglot Notebooks! Multi-language notebooks in Visual Studio Code

March 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 03/15/23

Claudia Regio

Polyglot Notebooks in VS Code is now generally available! Come try it out!

Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET week #2 recap and final week overview

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Ayca Bas

Join us for Hack Together, our virtual hackathon to learn how to build powerful apps with Microsoft Graph and .NET and win exciting prizes.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 2

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Daniel Roth

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

EF Core 8 Preview 2: Lite and familiar

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Arthur Vickers

Announcing Entity Framework Core 8 (EF8) Preview 2 with support for JSON columns in SQLite and HierarchyId in SQL Server/Azure SQL

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 2

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Alexandra Barry

.NET 8 Preview 2 contains a few updates/new features from Preview 1, including introspection support for function pointers, as well as some other runtime and libraries improvements.

.NET March 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.4, .NET 6.0.15

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Check out March 2023 updates for .NET 7.0. and .NET 6.0

What’s new for the WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework

March 9, 2023 Mar 9, 2023 03/9/23

Klaus Loeffelmann, Melissa Trevino

Since .NET 6, we updated the WinForms runtime to support and improve the Visual Basic Application Framework. In Visual Studio 2022, we also modernized the related user experience. Time to take a closer look how all this works behind the scenes, lets you move from .NET Framework to .NET 6/7+ and provides a great opportunity to modernize your WinForms Visual Basic Apps!

Generate images with AI using Stable Diffusion, C#, and ONNX Runtime

March 9, 2023 Mar 9, 2023 03/9/23

Luis Quintanilla, Cassie Breviu

Stable Diffusion is an AI model used to generate images based on text prompts. Learn about the ONNX Runtime, Stable Diffusion, and how you get get started using AI to generate your own images with your preferred .NET technologies