Getting Ready for .NET 6 and .NET MAUI

David Ortinau (@davidortinau) writes:

With .NET 6 previews starting right around the corner, it is time to start getting excited for the new .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) that was announced at BUILD 2020. This year of .NET has a lot of amazing things for client application developers.

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.NET MAUI is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, a cross-platform mobile first framework for Android, iOS, and UWP. Building upon 7 years of experience supporting customers from independent developers to some of the world’s largest companies, we are improving the core of the product, speeding up UI rendering, investing in consistent design systems, and extending from mobile to desktop.

Source: The New .NET Multi-platform App UI | Xamarin Blog

First Steps with Blazor – Simple Talk

It is always fun to play with new toys! This article from Julio Sampaio introduces you to Blazor – Web pages done in C#.

Blazor stands for Browser + Razor, which gives you an idea of what’s behind the new framework. Razor is the ASP.NET programming syntax that Microsoft uses to create its C# (or VB.NET) dynamic pages. Now, you can create web applications using only C# and run them in a web browser.

Source: First Steps with Blazor – Simple Talk

.NET 5.0 RC 1 is out.

Microsoft ships .NET 5.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the first of two RCs before the official release in November. RC1 is a “go live” release; you are supported using it in production.

Source: Announcing .NET 5.0 RC 1 | .NET Blog

Pulling Blobs Out of Azure Archive Storage

When storing data in Azure blob storage, the process of upload a blob is fairly straight forward, and all it takes is setting the access tier to “Archive” to move data to blob storage.

By Kevin Mack

Source: How to Pull Blobs Out of Archive Storage – CodeProject

Quo Vadis, MSMQ and .NET Core?

“Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) is currently not available for .NET Core. While other message queuing systems are generally preferred, many enterprise applications were based on MSMQ and this creates a problem for teams looking to migrate from .NET Framework to .NET Core or the upcoming .NET 5. But a recent pull request for Reference Source may change the situation.”

By Jonathan Allen

Source: MSMQ and .NET Core

OAuth 2.0 with GitHub in ASP.NET Core

Diogo Souza explains how to use OAuth2 to authenticate users for GitHub in an ASP.NET Core application.

Source: OAuth 2.0 with GitHub in ASP.NET Core – Simple Talk

Performance Improvements in .NET 5

“.NET 5 has seen a wealth of performance improvements, and even though it’s not scheduled for final release until this fall and there’s very likely to be a lot more improvements that find their way in by then, I wanted to highlight a bunch of the improvements that are already available now.”

by Stephen Toub

Source: Performance Improvements in .NET 5 | .NET Blog

C# 9 Deep Dive: Records | Dave Brock

In the previous post of this series, Dave Brock discussed the init-only features of C# 9, which allowed us to make individual properties immutable. That works great on a case-by-case basis, but the real power in leveraging C# immutability is when we can do this for custom types. This is where records shine.