.NET Conf 2021 - Highlights

 

.NET Conf 2021 Highlights

The .NET Conf 2021 was held two weeks back as a virtual event by Microsoft. At this event, they presented a lot of new and cool stuff that is coming to us. In this blog post, I will summarize the highlights for you.

• Release of Visual Studio 2022
  The all-new coding IDE from Microsoft for all your coding projects. Download it now
  
  
• With that also the release of C# 10, for a list of all new features check the video or if you prefer to read, check out the link
  
  
• C# 10 adds the following features and enhancements to the C# language:
• Record structs
• Improvements of structure types
• Interpolated string handlers
• global using directives
• File-scoped namespace declaration
• Extended property patterns
• Improvements on lambda expressions
• Allow const interpolated strings
• Record types can seal ToString()
• Improved definite assignment
• Allow both assignment and declaration in the same deconstruction
• Allow AsyncMethodBuilder attribute on methods
• CallerArgumentExpression attribute
• Enhanced #line pragma
  
  
• Releasing .NET Core  6.0 (LTS). So the new application should now be built with the new version. As the 3.1 version will move out of support by December 3, 2022
  
  
• .NET MAUI, .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML. Watch the video and for more information check out the documentation
  
  
• Hot Reload, With Hot Reload you can now modify your apps managed source code while the application is running, without the need to manually pause or hit a breakpoint. Watch the video and for more information check out the documentation
  
  
• Minimize your code writing for API’s in .NET Core 6.0, check out the video
  
  
• New version of Entity Framework, See what new in EF Core 6.0. Watch the video and for more information check out the documentation
  
  
• Upgrading from .NET Framework to .NET 6, check out the video on how to do this! Check out the new .NET Upgrade Assistent.

For the full video of .NET Conf 2021 check the YouTube link.

Happy codin'!