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Aug 17, 2021
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Performance Improvements in .NET 6

Stephen Toub - MSFT

.NET 6 is chock-full of exciting performance improvements.

Aug 16, 2021
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.NET Core 2.1 container images will be deleted from Docker Hub

Richard Lander

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.

Aug 16, 2021
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Introducing DevOps-friendly EF Core Migration Bundles

Jeremy Likness

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.

Aug 10, 2021
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Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 7

David Ortinau

.NET MAUI Preview 7 is now available with new layouts, improved accessibility, font scaling, and more.

Aug 10, 2021
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Preview Features in .NET 6 – Generic Math

Tanner Gooding [MSFT]

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.

Aug 10, 2021
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String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Text processing is at the heart of huge numbers of apps and services, and in .NET, that means lots and lots of . 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 's constructors, or , or overrides, or helper methods on like or or or , APIs to create strings are ubiquitous. One of the most powerful APIs for creating strings in .NET, however, is . The method has a multitude of overloads, all of which share in common the ability to supply a "composite format string" and associated arguments...

Aug 10, 2021
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ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 7

Daniel Roth

.NET 6 Preview 7 is now available! Check out all the improvements in ASP.NET Core in this update.

Aug 10, 2021
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Announcing .NET 6 Preview 7

Richard Lander

.NET 6 Preview 7 is now available.

Aug 10, 2021
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.NET August 2021 Updates – 5.0.9, 3.1.18, 2.1.30

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Today, we are releasing the .NET August 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and other improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.9 , 3.1.18, 2.1.30 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Update: The .NET Core 2.1.29 August update did not include the correct fix for CVE-2021-34532. To resolve this, we are re-releasing the August security update for .NET Core 2.1 as 2.1.30. If you have installed .NET Core 2.1.29 previously you need to install the .NET Core 2.1.30 update in...