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.NET MAUI Preview 5: Animations, Ported UI Components and Single Project Templates Updates
One month after Microsoft Build and Preview 4, the .NET MAUI team continued the progress with .NET Multi-platform App UI and now Preview 5 is here . It brings animations and the view transformation support, a couple of ported UI Components from the renderer architecture of Xamarin.Forms, and Single Project Templates updates and improvements.
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Uno Platform 3.8: New WinUI Controls and Layout for the Cross-Platform UI
Uno Platform 3.8 version release brings a lot of exciting additions to the platform, such as WinUI controls and layouts like CalendarDatePicker and CalendarView controls, Grid controls, 2x performance, new Linux scenario and more. With this release, Uno is approaching one step closer to the #WinUIEverywhere vision.
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.NET News Roundup: .NET 6, MAUI, EF Core 6, Visual Studio 2022
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of new previews for .NET 6 and its related frameworks (including MAUI), along with the first preview of Visual Studio 2022, new Azure SDK libraries, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of June 14th, 2021.
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.NET News Roundup: Project Reunion 0.8 RC , Uno Platform 3.8, JetBrains Rider 2021.2 Early Access
This past week was marked by the release of Project Reunion 0.8 RC, Uno Platform 3.8, JetBrains Rider 2021.2 Early Access, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of June 7th, 2021.
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Async Streaming with EF Core and ASP.NET Core 6
Combining enhancements to .NET Core and EF Core, ASP.NET Core 6 has gained the ability to handle arbitrarily large JSON files via asynchronous streaming and the IAsyncEnumerable interface.
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.NET News Roundup: Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, Windows ML, Project Tye, Oqtane
This past week was marked by the release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.10, Windows ML NuGet package 1.8.0, a Visual Studio Code extension for Tye, Oqtane 2.1, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of May 31st, 2021.
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ASP.NET Core 6 to Challenge Python and Node
ASP.NET Core 6 will allow developers to build REST APIs using a single-file model similar to basic Python and Node applications. Under this model, developers will no longer need to create a Program class, a Startup class, or Controller classes.
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.NET 6: Collections Improvements
Next in our series on the API changes for .NET 6, we look at collections.
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Microsoft Retires Azure Blockchain
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Blockchain will be retired on September 10. Microsoft credited industry changes and declined interest in the product as main reasons for discontinuing the marketing of Azure Blockchain. Microsoft partners with ConsenSys to offer a migration path for existing customers. ConsenSys’s Quorum Blockchain Service claims to be fully compatible with Azure Blockchain.
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.NET MAUI Preview 4 Is Here
.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) Preview 4 is here and brings a lot of interesting stuff. Preview 4 adds a few more features which can be used to build functional apps for all the currently supported platforms, preview also brings the support for running Blazor on the desktop, and progress to support .NET MAUI even more in the Visual Studio IDE.
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.NET News Roundup: Microsoft Build, .NET 6, MAUI, Visual Studio 2019, Project Reunion
It's been a busy week for the .NET community with this year's edition of Microsoft Build. During the event, Microsoft released new previews for .NET 6 and its related frameworks, along with a new version of Visual Studio, TypeScript 4.3, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of May 24th, 2021.
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Microsoft's ZeRO-Infinity Library Trains 32 Trillion Parameter AI Model
Microsoft recently open-sourced ZeRO Infinity, an addition to their open-source DeepSpeed AI training library that optimizes memory use for training very large deep-learning models. Using ZeRO-Infinity, Microsoft trained a model with 32 trillion parameters on a cluster of 32 GPUs, and demonstrated fine-tuning of a 1 trillion parameter model on a single GPU.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of May 17th, 2021
.NET News Roundup: Giraffe 5.0, Azure SDK, updates to the .NET Framework, Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, Uno Platform, and AvaloniaUI.
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Microsoft Will Retire Internet Explorer 11 in June 2022 for Certain Versions of Windows 10
Microsoft recently announced that the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10. Legacy Internet Explorer-based websites and applications will continue to work with Microsoft Edge’s built-in Internet Explorer mode.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of May 10th, 2021
.NET News Roundup: JetBrains .NET Days Online, TypeScript 4.3 RC, Visual Studio 2019, .NET vulnerability patches, Steeltoe, Telerik, and Akka.NET