Issue: 2021 - Vol. 18 - Issue 1 - .NET 6.0

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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s time for the annual release of C# vNext. Mark shows you how it’s streamlined in some ways and tightened in others. In fact, he thinks it will mark a sea change in how C# devs write code.

You already know that ASP.NET Core provides everything you need to build great Web UIs and powerful back-end services. Daniel shows how you can build rich interactive client Web UIs using all your favorite interactivity tools, standards-based HTTP APIs, real-time services, and back-end services.

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 ...article blends practical how-tos with context on planning transparency and community feedback, illustrating EF Core 6 as a thoughtful evolution that narrows gaps with EF6 while expanding nonrelational support.See More

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...isting Xamarin.Forms apps, compatibility with existing renderers, and the future openness and ecosystem potential of MAUI.See More

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...r UI within native apps and discusses migration paths from existing desktop frameworks. Overall, the article showcases Blazor Hybrid as a powerful evolution for .NET developers seeking to create modern, multi-platform applications.See More

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.