.NET 9 Preview 3: 'I've Been Waiting 9 Years for This API!' -- Visual Studio Magazine

.NET 9 Preview 3: 'I've Been Waiting 9 Years for This API!'

By David Ramel
04/16/2024

Microsoft's third preview of .NET 9 sees a lot of minor tweaks and fixes with no earth-shaking new functionality, but little things can be important to individual developers.

For example, who would have figured that adding the PersistableAssemblyBuilder type in System.Reflection.Emit was a big deal?

"Finally! 🎉 I've been waiting 9 years for this API! I'll try and get this working, and report back with feedback," commented a developer about that addition in a GitHub discussion announcing .NET 9 Preview 3.

More about that API -- under the .NET Libraries section -- can be found in the release notes.

Microsoft's James Montemagno summarized what's new in Libraries, Runtime and the SDK last week, with other highlights including:

Other highlights for different .NET 9 components include:

Entity Framework Core 9:
- Auto-compiled models
- Sugar for HierarchyId path generation
.NET MAUI:
- Multi-target versions of .NET for iOS bindings
- Android Asset Packs
ASP.NET Core:
- Endpoint metadata on the developer exception page
- Added InternalServerError and InternalServerError<TValue> to TypedResults
- Handle keyboard composition events in Blazor

**[Click on image for larger view.]** .NET Schedule *(source: Microsoft).*

.NET 9, coming in November, has a special focus on cloud-native apps and performance, Microsoft said. As a standard-term support (STS) release, it will be supported for 18 months.

Complete information is summarized in the What's new in .NET 9 documentation, which was updated April 11.

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David Ramel is an editor and writer at Converge 360.

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