Microsoft’s .NET 11 preview introduces two‑year STS support, reduces reliance on the Mono runtime, promotes CoreCLR for WebAssembly and Android, adds Zstandard compression, and unveils C# 15 collection‑expression arguments, offering developers early access to significant performance and language enhancements.
Microsoft has released the first preview of a .NET MAUI extension for Visual Studio Code, enabling developers to debug, build, and deploy native Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows applications from a single shared codebase using C# and XAML, with integrated Blazor support.
This article compares popular and niche technologies, explains why .NET remains relatively unknown in China's internet industry, and introduces its evolution, the Blazor web framework (both WebAssembly and Server models), and the capabilities of Flutter Web for cross‑platform development.
Microsoft announced the official release of .NET 7 on November 9, highlighting major enhancements such as improved Base Class Library, native ARM64 support, expanded Linux and IBM Power compatibility, integrated .NET MAUI and Blazor updates, and streamlined container and Azure cloud‑native capabilities.
Microsoft has officially released gRPC‑Web for .NET, a JavaScript library that enables browsers to directly call backend gRPC services, offering significant performance gains over JSON and expanding gRPC usage to web, Blazor, IIS, Azure, and mobile platforms.
The article examines WebAssembly as an emerging web development paradigm that offers a compiled, language‑agnostic alternative to JavaScript, discusses its integration with .NET via Mono and Blazor, compares tooling like NuGet to npm/WebPack, and highlights both the benefits and the continued need for JavaScript in modern web applications.
