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Bringing Universal Windows Platform apps to .NET 9

Microsoft’s new UWP-friendly tools bridge the gap between the old and the new worlds of .NET to help old code into the latest .NET stack.

Sep 19, 2024 8 mins

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How to work with FusionCache in ASP.NET Core

FusionCache is an open-source, easy-to-use implementation of hybrid in-memory and distributed caching that brings additional features and resiliency to caching in ASP.NET Core.

Sep 19, 2024 8 mins

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Microsoft moves .NET 9 to release candidate stage

Due for a production release in November, the forthcoming framework emphasizes WebSocket API improvements and updates to the .NET MAUI VS Code extension.

Sep 12, 2024 3 mins

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Using the Pinecone vector database in .NET

Build RAG-powered LLM applications using the tools you know with a managed vector index in Azure.

Sep 12, 2024 7 mins

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DirectML on Arm is here at last, almost

Microsoft has unveiled the first piece of the Windows Copilot Runtime. We tried it out and had disappointing results, with many bugs and few supported models.

Sep 5, 2024 7 mins

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Qt moves forward on toolkit for .NET-C++ interoperability

A work in progress, the Qt/.NET toolkit implements C# interfaces in C++ and offers event notification and object-lifecycle management. implements C# interfaces in C++ and offers event notification and object-lifecycle management.

Sep 4, 2024 2 mins

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Microsoft .NET Aspire boosts integrations, testing

.NET Aspire 8.2 features onboarding and testing improvements and makes progress toward build support planned for the upcoming 9.0 release.

Aug 30, 2024 2 mins

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Simpler web APIs in .NET with Sisk

The lightweight .NET web framework has arrived in a stable 1.0 release, ready to help build front ends and RESTful APIs for cloud applications.

Aug 29, 2024 8 mins

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Microsoft .NET Community Toolkit adds .NET 8, NativeAOT support

Version 8.3 of the platform-agnostic toolkit and MVVM library for .NET development also brings performance improvements and bug fixes.

Aug 29, 2024 2 mins

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Best practices for handling exceptions in C#

A good knowledge of exception handling is needed to build applications that are capable of handling runtime errors efficiently. Start with these simple guidelines.

Aug 29, 2024 6 mins