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Rod reflects on this being the third CODE Focus issue he has managed and highlights some of the great articles about .NET 6 in this issue.
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There were many lessons learned as the .NET team released .NET 5 during the lockdown with an all-remote team. Rich shows how those lessons carried into .NET 6 with major performance improvements, multiple operating system scenarios for building client apps, support for Apple Silicon chips, and faster and more responsive development tools.
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Now that you’re using all the shiny new tools in .NET 6, you need to make sure that the rest of your .NET Framework is keeping up. Mike shows you how the new Upgrade Assistant does some of that work for you; but you'll have some work to do yourself.
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VS 2022 is finally 64-bit! Mika shows you how, with enhanced speed, AI coding assistance, expanded productivity tools, and streamlined team collaboration, you’ll find this new version improving your workdays.
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Mark Michaelis argues that C# 10.0 is chiefly about removing ceremony and simplifying everyday code: file-scoped namespaces and global using directives reduce boilerplate, constant interpolated strings and richer lambdas improve expressiveness, CallerArgumentExpression enhances diagnostics for logging/assertions, and record structs and parameterless struct constructors close gaps for value types—small, non-revolutionary changes that are nonetheless practical and likely t...See More
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In this article, Daniel Roth highlights the major new features and improvements in ASP.NET Core with the release of .NET 6, emphasizing its comprehensive, high-performance web development capabilities. He showcases innovations such as minimal APIs for simplified coding, enhanced developer productivity tools like Hot Reload, and improvements to MVC, Razor Pages, and Blazor components. Roth also details better JavaScript integration, runtime performance gains, and new supp...See More
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Julie Lerman surveys EF Core 6 as a curated “bucket list” release, highlighting how the team prioritized long-desired enhancements across performance, modeling, migrations, and provider support. She emphasizes dramatic query speed gains, startup-model pre-compilation, standalone migrations bundles, and native temporal-table support, along with bulk configuration, expanded GroupBy capabilities, and Cosmos DB improvements such as implicit ownership and richer logging. The ...See More
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Steven Thewissen surveys .NET MAUI as the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, outlining how MAUI consolidates cross-platform development by unifying UI with a single .NET 6 base and replacing renderers with a leaner handlers architecture. He explains architectural reshaping (interfaces, explicit handler registration, and a mapper for property changes), the adoption of the .NET Generic Host, and the new Single Project resource model. The article also covers migration paths for ex...See More
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In this article, Ed Charbeneau explores the Blazor Hybrid pattern enabled by .NET MAUI, highlighting how it allows developers to build cross-platform native applications for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows using familiar .NET and Blazor technologies. He contrasts Blazor Hybrid with other desktop Blazor options like PWAs and Electron, emphasizing its superior performance, native API access, and unified codebase. Ed details how the BlazorWebView component integrates Blazo...See More
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Power Apps help design and specify how a mobile app will function without having to know all those troublesome details of being a professional coder. Come along as Brady walks you through .NET 6’s new ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs, then publishes the app to Azure App Service, imports it into Azure API Managements, and secures it with Microsoft Identity Platform.
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