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Roundup #48: .NET Reunified, Performance in .NET Core 3, XAML Hot Reload, Blazor

Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. .NET Reunified: Microsoft’s Plans for .NET 5 When Microsoft announced .NET 5 at Microsoft Build 2019 in May, it marked an important step forward for developers working across desktop, Web, mobile, cloud and device platforms. In fact, .NET 5 is that rare platform update that unifies divergent frameworks, reduces code complexity and significantly advances cross-platform reach. Link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt833477.aspx What’s new for performance in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 3.0… Read More »Roundup #48: .NET Reunified, Performance in .NET Core 3, XAML Hot Reload, Blazor

Roundup #47: Elastic APM, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft.FeatureManagement, .NET Core 3 Progress

Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Elastic APM .NET Agent beta Released We are proud to announce the beta release of the Elastic APM .NET agent! The version number of this release is 1.0.0-beta1. Back in February we announced the alpha release of the .NET APM agent. We received very positive feedback from the community, and we managed to attract lots of users already in this very early stage. Our base NuGet package reached around 20,000 downloads. Link: https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-apm-dot-net-agent-beta-released Careers Behind the… Read More »Roundup #47: Elastic APM, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft.FeatureManagement, .NET Core 3 Progress

Roundup #46: .NET Core 1 EOL, EF Core 3.0, WCF OSS, Hidden Gems in .NET Core 3

Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. .NET Core 1.0/1.1 End of Life Link: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/support/policy/dotnet-core Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 6 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 6 In recent months, a lot of our efforts have been focused on a new LINQ implementation for EF Core 3.0. Although the work isn’t complete and a lot of the intended functionality hasn’t been enabled, before preview 6 we reached a point in which we couldn’t make much more… Read More »Roundup #46: .NET Core 1 EOL, EF Core 3.0, WCF OSS, Hidden Gems in .NET Core 3