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Announcing .NET 11
.NET 11 is here with C# 15, faster developer tools, runtime and library improvements, and new capabilities for web, mobile, desktop, and AI apps.
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Your Top .NET Microservices Questions Answered
We got some great questions during our recent Let's Learn .NET: Microservices event. In this post, Nish Anil answers your top five questions, with links to docs and resources where you can learn more.
.NET April 2021 Updates – .NET 5.0.5, .NET Core 3.1.14, .NET Core 2.1.27
Today, we are releasing the .NET April 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and other non-security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.5 | 3.1.14 | 2.1.27 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Improvements .NET 5 NuGet Restore Failures on Linux distributions using NSS or ca-certificates .NET SDK 5.0.202 resolves an issue where NuGet restore fails on Linux due to expired NuGet certificates and unfortunate interactions with changes made to...
.NET 5 NuGet Restore Failures on Linux distributions using NSS or ca-certificates
We will be releasing updated builds of NuGet this week to accommodate NuGet restore failures on Linux distributions. The failures are observed when updated versions of the NSS or ca-certificates packages are installed.
Announcing Open Source C# standardization
The C# standards committee moved its work into Open Source. ECMA worked with the .NET Foundation, enabling C# developers worldwide to participate in the standardization effort. Visit the C# standards repo for more information.
Monitoring and Observability in Cloud-Native ASP.NET Core apps
Distributed applications are complex and bring in their own set of challenges for developers to debug and fix production issues. ASP.NET Core offers a number of solutions to add monitoring and observability to your cloud-native applications.
Loop alignment in .NET 6
Loop alignment improvements in .NET 6
Cloud-Native learning resources for .NET developers
The .NET team has put together a collection of free resources to help you speed up your cloud-native application development journey.
OpenTelemetry .NET reaches v1.0
Learn how to get started with OpenTelemetry .NET
Performance and Polish with NuGet 5.9
NuGet 5.9 is a great release that brings a refined experience to everything package management. We’ve added a bunch of exciting quality of life improvements while also bringing you a more performant package management experience. We’re excited to see you use NuGet 5.9 & include it in your toolset to build amazing things with .NET.