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.NET Updates February 2025 - .NET 10 Preview, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, Gen AI for Beginners and more!

This month, Jon Galloway and Frank Boucher bring us the latest updates in the .NET world! In their February .NET news video, they cover exciting developments, including the release of Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, improvements in .NET 9 networking, new features for enhanced Razor productivity, and much more.
This blog post contains all the links mentioned in the video, so you can dive deeper into each topic and explore the community's insights. Enjoy!

Links shared during the video

  • Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 is Now Available! (Mads Kristensen) - Many new features related to productivity, who doesn't love that? There are more with Copilot, Debugging & diagnostics, Git tooling, and more!

  • C# Dev Kit Updates: .NET Aspire, Hot Reload, and More! (Wendy Breiding (SHE/HER)) - Our beloved C# Dev Kit extension for VSCode just got even better! It can now support projects wihthout a csproj. There are debugging, testing enhancements, and now you can add .NET Aspire Orchestration to your solution with one click. The post has a video where Katie Savage shows all the new features.

  • .NET 9 Networking Improvements (Máňa, Natalia, Anton) - Everyone will benefit from the improvements, but if you want to know all the details, this post goes in-depth on all the new features and improvements in .NET 9 related to networking.

  • .NET MAUI Performance Features in .NET 9 (Jonathan, Simon) - This post goes over the improvements iving some comparisons before and after. Really interesting to see the impact of the changes.

  • New Features for Enhanced Razor Productivity (Leslie Richardson) - I love the new "Extract to Component" feature, it will save me so much time. There is also some pretty amazing work done around the Roslyn C# Tokenizer. A must read for Web developers.

  • .NET 10 Preview 1 (.NET Team) - This is it! This is a great post that goes over the version Preview. There also a great 75-minutes unboxing video: .NET Previews Unboxed - .NET 10 Preview 1, C# 14, HybridCache, & More with all the team.

  • .NET Aspire 9.1 (Maddy Montaquila) - Our dashboard got a new version! Clearer UI with grouping resources, different themes, Localization, improvement in the logs management, and more! To get all that goodness, we only have to change the version to 9.1.

  • Announcing Generative AI for Beginners – .NET (Pablo Lopes) - This post announces the perfect course to get started with Generative AI. It's only 5 short lessons, it is a free course, and material is available in multiple languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and German. There is a Discord, jump in!

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We hope you found this month's .NET updates informative and engaging. We're always looking to improve and would love to hear your feedback on this new format. Do you find it useful? How can we make it better? Please leave your comments below or reach out to Jon Galloway or Frank Boucher directly. Your insights are invaluable to us!

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