.NET Blog

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

Introducing the Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET

March 7, 2023 Mar 7, 2023 03/7/23

Matt Soucoup, Nish Anil

The first step of your application's cloud journey often times is the most difficult. We've created the Reliable Web App pattern to help you out. In this article you'll learn about the overall pattern and some easy code changes you can make today to get your app ready for its cloud journey.

Microsoft Teams’ Permission Service migration to .NET 6

March 2, 2023 Mar 2, 2023 03/2/23

Diogo Barbosa

At Microsoft, we are constantly working on modernizing our services to make them faster, more efficient, and up to date with the latest technologies. In this blog post, we will cover one of Microsoft Teams' Services, Permission Service, how the migration to .NET 6 helped increase the performance by 100% and reduced latency by 30-45%!

Join us for Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23

Waldek Mastykarz

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

Sentence Similarity in ML.NET Model Builder

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23

Luis Quintanilla

The latest release of ML.NET Model Builder Visual Studio extension brings a new sentence similarity deep learning scenario and improvements to the GPU experience