dotnet/skills is an official Microsoft .NET team project that provides 15 plugins covering LSP, MSBuild, testing, migration, AI integration and more, enabling AI coding agents across Copilot CLI, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex to handle deep .NET tasks with higher accuracy and continuous evaluation via a public dashboard.
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.
The article reviews the official .NET 10 release, highlighting AI Agent Framework simplifications, extensive cryptography API updates, JIT and runtime performance gains, new C# 14 language features, F# 10 improvements, stack‑allocated arrays, SDK refinements, and the latest MAUI and ASP.NET Core capabilities.
Microsoft’s .NET 10 has entered Release Candidate 1, introducing complete post‑quantum cryptography APIs, expanded ASP.NET Core Identity metrics, new Entity Framework 10 JSON support, dark‑mode Windows Forms, and enhanced .NET MAUI diagnostics, with the final release slated for November.
Recent studies reveal that over 96% of codebases contain open‑source components, yet many projects lose maintainers, as illustrated by the NanUI .NET UI framework’s abrupt halt—its sole developer, now unemployed, announced the pause, highlighting the fragile sustainability of open‑source software.
The .NET Upgrade Assistant extension for Visual Studio streamlines the migration of .NET Framework and .NET Core projects to the latest .NET 6 (LTS) or .NET 7 releases, offering a right‑click upgrade path while highlighting its current limitations and supported project types.
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’s .NET Framework 4.8.1 update, bundled with Visual Studio 2022 17.3, introduces native Arm64 support and official Arm64EC compatibility, enabling legacy .NET apps to run directly on Arm64 hardware without emulation, while dropping support for older Windows versions and providing new download links.
This article explains how Thread.Sleep works, compares time‑slice and pre‑emptive scheduling, clarifies why Sleep(1000) doesn't guarantee exact wake‑up timing, and shows how Sleep(0) yields the CPU to improve responsiveness in multithreaded applications.
Microsoft will cease support for .NET 5 and Windows 10 20H2 on May 10, ending updates for .NET 5 after 18 months, while .NET 6 LTS continues until November 2024, and Windows 10 20H2 support for enterprise and IoT users extends to May 2023, prompting developers to upgrade.
Microsoft released .NET 7 Preview 3, introducing major updates such as full native AOT compilation, improved startup times, Write‑Xor‑Execute support, enhanced code generation, new X.500 certificate handling, and default‑enabled GC optimizations across most platforms.
The article introduces three C# 11 preview features—allowing line breaks inside interpolated string expressions, a new list pattern syntax for matching arrays and slices, and a concise parameter null‑checking syntax—explaining their usage, showing code examples, and describing how to enable them in a project.
This article walks through the design and implementation of a complete captcha solution—including image and SMS verification—using .NET Core, covering background context, code details for generating graphics, unsafe handling, noise lines, caching strategies, rate limiting, validation logic, runtime results, and a link to the full source repository.
This article explains how .NET's Microsoft.Extensions.ObjectPool framework can be used to reuse objects, customize pooling policies, integrate with dependency injection, and extend pooling to collections, StringBuilder, arrays and memory buffers, thereby minimizing garbage‑collection pressure and boosting application throughput.
This guide walks .NET developers through the complete process of moving from .NET Framework to .NET Core on a Linux server, covering prerequisite tools, SSH key configuration, SDK installation, manual publishing, production‑grade setups with Supervisor+Nginx or Jexus, and finally Docker‑based deployment with automation scripts.
During a beta release, a .NET system faced slow page responses, time‑outs, high server load, and database deadlocks, prompting a systematic performance‑tuning process that covers mindset, problem reproduction, classification, tool‑based diagnosis, and concrete code, SQL, and algorithm optimizations with detailed case studies.
The article discusses a systematic .NET application architecture that separates the presentation, business, and data layers, explains UI and controller responsibilities, compares data‑transfer and domain models, and reviews various data‑access strategies such as ADO.NET, ORM, and DataMapper to achieve maintainable, extensible software.
