.NET Framework


TypeScript Vaults Ahead of Java to Crack Stack Overflow Top 5

Microsoft's TypeScript programming language over the past few years has been steadily climbing the popularity rankings in Stack Overflow's huge annual developer survey, this year knocking off Java to crack the top five.

Visual Studio 2022 Preview Allows Code Editing in Search Results

In the latest Visual Studio 2022 preview, developers can edit source code from within All-In-One Search results.

VMware Launches Tanzu Toolkit for Visual Studio

VMware announced a new Visual Studio toolkit for working with Kubernetes clusters, containers, microservices and other cloud-native tech in its Tanzu line of products.

Blazor Posts Biggest Gain in WebAssembly Usage: Report

Rust rules among programming languages used for WebAssembly projects, but Blazor (C#) is coming on strong.

Hands On with Latest Visual Studio 2022 Preview Features

Trying out some hidden functionality that can be enabled with a few mouse clicks (and maybe an IDE restart).

VS Code and Visual Studio Rock the 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Report

Stack Overflow's huge developer survey is out for 2022, showing that Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio have cemented their positions as the two most popular IDEs among more than 70,000 developers who were polled.

Miguel de Icaza Leads Uproar Over Closed-Source VS Code C# Tool

"An unacceptable abuse of power from the stewards of the platform, and a betrayal of the community."

Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 2 Is First Native Arm64 Release

As promised at the recent Build developer conference, Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 2 is now available as a native Arm64 application on Windows 11.

.NET 7 Preview 5 Boosts Generic Math, Observability, More

Microsoft shipped the fifth preview of .NET 7 en route to a November debut, with improvements concerning generic math, observability and much more.

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Microsoft Updates Quantum Development Kit to .NET 6, VS 2022

Microsoft updated its Quantum Development Kit (QDK) to support.NET 6 instead of .NET Core 3.1, and Visual Studio 2022 instead of VS 2019.

.NET MAUI Devs Wrestled with iOS App Size, Android Startup

Microsoft struggled to improve .NET MAUI performance beyond that of Xamarin.Forms, wrestling with thorny issues like iOS app size and Android startup times.

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Microsoft Ships Windows App SDK 1.1 to Build Apps Using WinUI 3, WebView2

Microsoft shipped a major update of its Windows App SDK, a unifying resource for building various kinds of Windows apps with modern technologies.

TypeScript 4.7 GA, Visual Studio on Arm64, Azure Deployment Environments, More

It was a big week for Microsoft-centric development news, including TypeScript 4.7 reaching General Availability, Visual Studio for Arm coming soon, Azure Deployment environments and more.

Microsoft Build Conference Heralds Era of AI-Assisted Software Development

AI might not be coming for your coding job, but it sure is going to change it.

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Finally Generally Available

Lagging by about six months, Visual Studio 2022 for Mac v17.0 has finally caught up to its Windows counterpart and reached Generally Available (GA) status after a huge revamp of its frontend UI and backend runtime.

.NET MAUI Reaches General Availability, Replacing Xamarin.Forms

Microsoft's evolution of Xamarin.Forms, .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI), has finally reached General Availability status, providing one framework for both mobile apps and, now, desktop apps.

Top 10 Dev Products Going GA at Microsoft Build 2022

Here are 10 interesting products/technologies hitting general availability (GA) status at the Build developer conference.

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Team Fixes Release Candidate Issues

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Release Candidate 2 has shipped, cleaning up some issues reported by developers trying out the previous release candidate.

What's New in Visual Studio Code 1.67 (April 2022 Update)

Explorer file nesting is now no longer experimental, along with default bracket pair colorization, new functionality for find all references in markdown and much more.

How to Do Web Forms in VS 2022 (Even Though Microsoft Recommends Blazor/.NET 6)

Microsoft recommends replacing relic from old .NET Framework with Blazor, but you can still do ASP.NET Web Forms apps in Visual Studio 2022 if you want to, with a couple tweaks.

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