.NET Blog

Debugging Enhancements in .NET 8

September 26, 2023 Sep 26, 2023 09/26/23

James Newton-King

.NET 8 introduces debugging enhancements to many commonly used types. Check out what is new and discover how .NET debugging is better than ever.

What’s new in System.Text.Json in .NET 8

September 19, 2023 Sep 19, 2023 09/19/23

Eirik Tsarpalis

An overview of all new .NET 8 features in System.Text.Json for developers.

Performance Improvements in .NET 8

September 13, 2023 Sep 13, 2023 09/13/23

Stephen Toub - MSFT

.NET 7 was super fast, .NET 8 is faster. Take an in-depth tour through over 500 pull requests that make that a reality.

Announcing .NET 8 RC1

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23

Leslie Richardson

.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

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23

Arthur Vickers

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

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23

David Ortinau

.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

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23

Daniel Roth

.NET 8 Release Candidate 1 is now available! Check out what's new in ASP.NET Core in this update.

WPF File Dialog Improvements in .NET 8

September 8, 2023 Sep 8, 2023 09/8/23

Dipesh Kumar

Announing OpenFolderDialog control and other file dialog properties in WPF in .NET 8.

Demystifying Retrieval Augmented Generation with .NET

September 6, 2023 Sep 6, 2023 09/6/23

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Build a chat-based console app with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) from scratch.

Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 7: Keyboard Accelerators

August 8, 2023 Aug 8, 2023 08/8/23

David Ortinau

.NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 7 has more new quality improvements for developers, experimental new AOT for iOS, and exciting new Visual Studio support.