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Microsoft's latest Visual Studio preview facilitates "vibe coding," where developers mainly use GitHub Copilot AI to do all the programming in accordance with spoken or typed instructions.
03/26/2025
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Blazor creator Steve Sanderson presented a keynote at the recent NDC London 2025 conference where he previewed the future of .NET application development with smaller AI models and autonomous agents, along with showcasing a new Blazor voice assistant project demonstrating cutting-edge functionality.
03/25/2025
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According to the release notes, however, most dev-team attention was devoted to small fixes, features and functionality, as was the case in Preview 1, which shipped a few weeks ago.
03/19/2025
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OpenSilver, an open-source, WebAssembly-based reimplementation of the deprecated Microsoft Silverlight, now supports .NET MAUI Hybrid for cross-platform web and native app development.
03/18/2025
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Uno Platform, a third-party dev tooling specialist that caters to .NET developers, published a report on the state of WebAssembly, addressing some shortcomings in the .NET implementation it would like to see Microsoft address.
02/04/2025
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A trio of Blazor experts will conduct a full-day workshop for devs to learn everything about the tech a a March developer conference in Las Vegas keynoted by Microsoft execs and featuring many Microsoft devs.
01/16/2025
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Having introduced its Modern Web Application (MWA) pattern for Java developers late last year, Microsoft is now promoting the cloud-centric concept further by highlighting the benefits of the "Strangler Fig" approach.
01/10/2025
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Building an API with ASP.NET Core is only half the job. If your API is going to live more than one release cycle, you're going to need to version it. If you have other people building clients for it, you're going to need to document it.
12/13/2024
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They provide developers with the ability to toggle features on and off without having to redeploy code, making it easier to manage risk, test features in production, and facilitate smoother releases.
10/03/2024
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Microsoft has long acknowledged third-party vendor contributions to dev tooling ecosystems like Blazor and is now doing the same for its newly open-sourced .NET Smart Components.
09/20/2024
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"The most disruptive change we are making in this release is dropping support for .NET Framework."
09/12/2024
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Microsoft shipped the first release candidate for .NET 9, which is nearing feature completeness and production readiness in advance of its November debut.
09/11/2024
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The Angular web-dev framework might seem an odd choice for a Microsoft-centric developer to consider, seeing as it's championed by arch-rival Google, but a closer look reveals many advantages.
09/10/2024
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The web-dev ASP.NET Core framework and Xamarin.Forms' successor .NET MAUI received the lion's share of dev attention in the seventh preview of .NET 9 as Microsoft preps for a November launch at .NET Conf 2024.
08/27/2024
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Yesterday's .NET Conf Focus on AI online event highlighted Microsoft's latest/greatest AI dev tooling, including the newly open-sourced .NET Smart Components.
08/21/2024
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.NET 9 is coming in November, so here is help in how to build and deploy a modern .NET 9 app using cloud and DevOps tools.
08/13/2024
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Blazor shook up the .NET-centric web-dev space several years ago with its new ability to create web apps using C# and .NET instead of primarily coding UI with JavaScript like most every other framework, and it has been steadily advancing ever since. Here's a look at using RazorComponents for app integration.
08/08/2024
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Flying under the radar below Visual Studio, VS Code, JetBrains Rider and other big names in the .NET-centric IDE space is the open-source ABP, which just shipped a new community edition.
08/07/2024
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A new AI-powered UI designer highlights the new release of OpenSilver 3.0, a free, open-source UI framework for building modern .NET web applications in C# and XAML, basically a reimplementation of Microsoft Silverlight that runs on current browsers via WebAssembly.
07/12/2024
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Syncfusion beefed up its Blazor offerings in the second major 2024 release of its third-party development tooling for Microsoft-centric developers.
07/03/2024
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Microsoft shipped the latest iteration of its type-infused superset of JavaScript, TypeScript 5.5, introducing inferred type predicates, control flow narrowing, JSDoc @import and other enhancements.
06/24/2024
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Microsoft's fifth preview of .NET 9 nods at AI development while also introducing new templates for some of the more popular project types, including Blazor Hybrid and .NET MAUI.
06/20/2024
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Since its inception as an intriguing experiment in leveraging WebAssembly to enable dynamic web development with C#, Blazor has evolved into a mature, fully featured framework. Integral to the ASP.NET Core ecosystem, Blazor offers developers a unique combination of server-side rendering and rich client-side interactivity.
06/18/2024
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Microsoft is deprecating VBScript in favor of "more advanced" alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell in a three-phase plan that looks like it will wrap up shortly after 2027 or so.
05/30/2024
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Progress shipped an update to its Telerik .NET-centric dev tools suite that facilitates generative AI integration into apps.
05/30/2024