.NET Blog

Microsoft Forms Service’s Journey to .NET 6

June 20, 2023 Jun 20, 2023 06/20/23

Ray Yao

Microsoft Forms is an Office product with 130M monthly active users, recently we migrated our services to .NET 6, and we have seen 100%-200% increase in CPU efficiency.

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 5

June 13, 2023 Jun 13, 2023 06/13/23

Jiachen Jiang

We're thrilled to announce .NET 8 Preview 5, featuring enhanced Metrics APIs, SourceLink integration, default Dynamic PGO, and Alpine ASP.NET Docker Composite Images.

HackTogether: the Microsoft Teams Global Hack – Keynote Recap and What’s Coming

June 6, 2023 Jun 6, 2023 06/6/23

Ayca Bas

Last week we launched HackTogether the Microsoft Teams Global Hack – a virtual hackathon all about building apps for Microsoft Teams. Here’s what happened last week and what’s still to come.

Transform your business with smart .NET apps powered by Azure and ChatGPT

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Luis Quintanilla

Learn how you can build intelligent apps and unleash the full potential of AI in your .NET applications using ChatGPT.

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 4

May 16, 2023 May 16, 2023 05/16/23

Jon Douglas

.NET 8 Preview 4 contains many exciting new features for the runtime and libraries, Native AOT improvements, modern build output and simplified paths, NuGet package security auditing, and much more!

Join us for HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack

May 12, 2023 May 12, 2023 05/12/23

Waldek Mastykarz

Join us for HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack, our virtual hackathon to learn how to build powerful apps for Microsoft Teams.

Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.2! Faster generators, code fixers, performance improvements and more!

April 27, 2023 Apr 27, 2023 04/27/23

Sergio Pedri

We're happy to announce the official launch of the .NET Community Toolkit 8.2 release, featuring performance improvements to the libraries and source generators, new code fixers and requested features, and more!

Check out new C# 12 preview features!

April 11, 2023 Apr 11, 2023 04/11/23

Kathleen Dollard

The first set of C# 12 features are here in preview including primary constructors, using aliases, and lambda expression parameters.

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 3

April 11, 2023 Apr 11, 2023 04/11/23

Jiachen Jiang

.NET 8 Preview 3 is now available, with changes to build paths, workloads, Microsoft.Extensions, and containers. It also includes performance improvements in the JIT, for Arm64, and dynamic PGO.

Create a portfolio website without installing any tools

March 23, 2023 Mar 23, 2023 03/23/23

Katie Savage

Create, customize, and deploy your own portfolio website in minutes without installing any tools.