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Did you know? More than 400 billion PDFs were opened in Adobe products in the last year. Wow! That’s a lot of PDFs! How many did you open last year? .NET news Announcing Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro Announcing .NET 8 Preview 4 ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 4 EF Core 8 Preview 4: Primitive collections and improved Announcing a new version of the .NET Upgrade Assistant with support for .NET MAUI and Azure Functions! Featured content  Hi folks, it's me, Khalid, your neighborhood-friendly developer advocate. Rachel has kindly asked me to curate the

Did you know? There is a difference between compilation and transpilation. The short explanation is that compilers use code from one language to produce output, usually binary. Transpilers are a type of compiler that produce source code but at the same level of abstraction, so the output is usually more source code. .NET news Announcing .NET 8 Preview 3 ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 3 Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 3 Check out new C# 12 preview features! Join the .NET Team at Microsoft Build 2023! Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.2! Faster generato

Did you know? JavaScript was released on December 4, 1995, after being quickly developed over 10 days, to work with the Netscape browser. It stuck around, became popular, and in 1997 folks finally recognized the need for formal structure and support, via ECMA. The rest is history as it has taken over the web. .NET news What's New: APIs in Microsoft GraphAnnouncing .NET 8 Preview 2ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 2.NET March 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.4, .NET 6.0.15What’s new for the WinForms Visual Basic Application FrameworkIntroducing the Reliable Web App Pattern for .NETAnnounc

Did you know? There is a difference between the terms "argument" and "parameter", despite everyone using them interchangeably. As is explained in this Stack Overflow question: "A parameter is a variable in a method definition. When a method is called, the arguments are the data you pass into the method's parameters." Now you know what you can have an argument about with fellow developers! .NET news Amplifying F# Project: Making a difference for the F# ecosystemCodespaces support for JetBrains Rider (Beta)Announcing .NET 8 Preview 1ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 1EF Core 8 Pre

Did you know? The official birthday of the internet is January 1, 1983. While there already was a prototype of several connected computers since the 1960’s, they had no standard way to communicate. That is, until January 1, 1983, when ARPANET and the Defense Data Network moved over to the TCP/IP standard bringing the very first version of what we know as The Internet. .NET news January rarely has a lot going on as folks in Redmond return from the holidays. Here's the small amount of news from the previous month: Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.1!.NET January 2023 Updates – .NET 7.

Did you know? Though these terms are often used interchangeably, there is a difference between a parameter and an argument. A parameter is only the definition of something that’s passed into a function and is found in the function's signature. Parameters usually define the name and type of allowed for the argument to use. The argument is the actual value that’s passed into the function in calling code.  .NET news Through December most of the .NET folks at Microsoft headquarters take time off for Christmas, New Year, and other winter holidays. There’s been no new releases from Mi

Did you know? Defects in software are called “bugs” because of an early incident in computing in which  Dr. Grace Hopper found an actual moth to be the culprit of mysterious but consistent error messages. Do you have a fun computing trivia tidbit? Share it with us so we can add it to a future newsletter.  .NET news Announcing ML.NET 2.0.NET 7 is Available TodayAnnouncing ASP.NET Core in .NET 7Announcing .NET MAUI for .NET 7 General AvailabilityAnnouncing F# 7Welcome to C# 11Entity Framework Core 7 (EF7) is available todayWhat’s new in Windows Forms in .NET 7.0What’s new

Did you know? When C# was introduced in 2000, it came with a language construct called “delegate”. It’s kind of a lost art, but it still is a great alternative to interfaces to make code more testable. Whenever a particular delegate is expected, it also accepts a method with the same signature, or a lambda.  .NET news Announcing .NET MAUI support for .NET 7 Release Candidate 2What’s new in System.Text.Json in .NET 7Announcing .NET MAUI support for Xcode 14 and iOS 16Announcing Entity Framework Core 7 RC2: JSON ColumnsAnnouncing .NET 7 Release Candidate 2ASP.NET Core updates in .

Did you know? According to Statista, as of July 2022 there are 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide. That’s 59.5% of the global population. Of this total, 92.6% have accessed the internet via mobile devices.  .NET news Arm64 Performance Improvements in .NET 7Experimental WebTransport over HTTP/3 support in Kestrel.NET MAUI in .NET 7 Release Candidate 1ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Release Candidate 1Announcing .NET 7 Release Candidate 1Announcing Entity Framework 7 Release Candidate 1.NET now on Windows Package Manager.NET 7 comes to Azure Functions & Visual Studio

Did you know? As of 2020, 64.82% of searches on Google ended without clicking to another web property. People stay in the top half of the first page of search results. .NET news Announcing .NET Framework 4.8.1.NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04C# 11 preview: generic math, required members, and moreAnnouncing built-in container support for the .NET SDKAnnouncing SynapseML for .NET – Large Scale ML with a Simple APIAnnouncing Entity Framework 7 Preview 7: Interceptors!ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 7Announcing .NET 7 Preview 7 Programing tutorials and tips  .NET tutorials

Did you know? ASP.NET was originally called ASP, which stands for Active Server Pages. It was released in December 1996 and was the pre-.NET version of this popular web framework. Read more about the history of Active Server Pages on Wikipedia.   .NET news .NET July 2022 Updates – .NET 6.0.7 and .NET Core 3.1.27.NET Core 3.1 will reach End of Support on December 13, 2022Announcing Entity Framework Core 7 Preview 6: Performance EditionASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 6Announcing .NET 7 Preview 6Announcing Rate Limiting for .NET Featured content  We’d like to

Did you know? Atari celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. While the organization has changed hands a few times in 50 years, the original Atari, Inc., was founded in Sunnyvale, California, in 1972 and is currently owned by Atari SA. Atari made video games in the home a popular pastime. Happy anniversary Atari!  .NET news .NET Foundation Summit 2022Performance Improvements in .NET MAUI.NET 7 Preview 5 – Generic MathASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 5Announcing Entity Framework 7 Preview 5Announcing .NET 7 Preview 5Introducing the ML.NET Text Classification API Program