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.NET Community Toolkit 8.2: MVVM Toolkit Attributes, Performance Enhancements, and More
Microsoft has released the latest version of its .NET Community Toolkit, version 8.2, and it comes with several new enhancements and features. According to the release, this new version brings performance enhancements both at runtime and in the MVVM Toolkit source generators, new code fixers aimed at boosting productivity, and a number of user-requested features.
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Uno Platform for Figma Preview 5: Enhanced Features for Designers and Developers
Uno Platform has released Preview 5 of its Figma plugin, offering enhanced features for designers and developers. The latest version of the plugin allows the creation of custom colors, enables the import of Design Systems Packages (DSP), and offers new controls such as Pips Pager, TabBar, and ItemsRepeater for greater flexibility in creating dynamic designs.
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ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 8 Preview 3: Native AOT Support and More
Recently Microsoft released .NET 8 Preview 3. This new release contains many new improvements to ASP.NET Core such as support for native AOT, server-side rendering with Blazor, rendering Razor components outside of ASP.NET Core, sections support in Blazor or monitoring Blazor Server circuit activity.
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C# 12: Preview of Three New Features Coming
Microsoft has published the release post which covers the three exciting new features that will be included in the upcoming release of C# 12, the latest version of its popular programming language. These features include primary constructors for non-record classes and structs, using aliases for any type, and default values for lambda expression parameters.
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.NET MAUI 8 Preview 3: UI improvements, Memory Management, and NuGet Versioning
Microsoft has recently released the third preview of the .NET MAUI framework in .NET 8. This latest release includes UI improvements, focusing on memory management also. In addition, Preview 3 also brings support for NuGet package versions of the app. This means that developers will now have the ability to preview future builds and lock their applications to a specific version of .NET MAUI.
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Remote Development with JetBrains Rider
JetBrains provides access to Remote Development Beta. The tool works by locally running a thin client and connecting to the IDE backend which gives a fully functional user interface. It can be handled by JetBrains Rider or JetBrains Gateway. The workflow of the tool is smooth as editing is done locally and the JetBrains client synchronises changes with the backend.
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Visual Studio Extensibility SDK Preview 3: New Features for Building Productivity Extensions
Visual Studio Extensibility Preview 3 adds the Debugger Visualizers to simplify the debugging experience, Custom Dialogs to create tailored user interfaces, Query the Project System to access and interact with the project system, Editor Margin Extensions to add custom components to the margin of the code editor, and Extension Configuration options to give users more control over their extensions.
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Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2: Productivity, Game Development and Enterprise Management
Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2 is available, bringing new features and improvements for boosting productivity, game development, and enterprise management. The release includes updates such as a new Android Manifest Editor, Unreal Engine Code Analysis, HLSL Tools Extension, Create Member Function features, Git Stage and Commit During Build, Merge Dialog updates, and breakpoint groups, etc.
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Microsoft Showcases Reliable Web App Patterns for Resilient Cloud Applications
Microsoft has shared the source code and the documentation for the Reliable Web App pattern, a set of best practices that help on-premise web application developers create secure, reliable and cost-optimised cloud applications in Azure with minimal changes.
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Entity Framework Core 8 Preview 2 Released
Entity Framework Core 8 Preview 2 was released on March 14th. The most notable feature in EF Core 8 preview 2 is support for SQL Server hierarchical data.
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Uno Platform 4.8: New App Template Wizard & Design System Package Import, .NET 8 Preview 2, and More
Uno Platform released version 4.8 of their framework for building native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps. The latest version brings over 200 fixes and new features, as well as support for .NET 8 Preview 2. The highlight of the new release is the new startup experience, new App Template Wizard, OpenGL Acceleration, Design System Package Import, updates for Reactive / MVUX, and many more.
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Explore the Latest Updates to WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework
Recent updates to the WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework, including the ability to convert older .NET Framework-based apps to .NET 6, 7, or 8+ and new features like the Windows Forms Out-of-Process Designer. Upgrading to newer frameworks creates opportunities to support modern technologies like EF Core and many more valuable updates.
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The Sentence Similarity Scenario in ML.NET Model Builder
Microsoft recently published information about adding the Sentence Similarity scenario in Model Builder. This scenario allows the training of custom sentence similarity models. Together with the addition of this scenario to the Model Builder, it is no longer necessary to install the Model Builder GPU extension.
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Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) v1.10 Released
Recently, the Dapr maintainers released V1.10 of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), a developer framework for building cloud-native applications, making it easier to run multiple microservices on Kubernetes and interact with external state stores/databases, secret stores, pub/sub-brokers, and other cloud services and self-hosted solutions.
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ASP.NET Core 8 Preview 2: QuickGrid and Enhanced Blazor WebAssembly Performance
.NET 8 Preview 2 brings several enhancements to the ASP.NET Core. The highlights of the release are the Blazor QuickGrid component, which promises to simplify data presentation and manipulation, and improved performance for Blazor WebAssembly through the use of the new runtime feature called jiterpreter.