Highights from the Microsoft .NET Conf 2020 Keynote & .NET 5 Launch
Mark Hewitt
Helping enterprises modernize, develop resilience, and negotiate digital transformation | President & CEO at EQengineered
Today, the .NET Conf kicked off, a three-day, virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. This year .NET 5.0 launched at .NET Conf 2020, and attendees were able to celebrate and learn about the new release. Microsoft is also celebrating the .NET Conf's 10th anniversary.
- Day 1 is all about the big news, .NET 5! Attendees joined the .NET team on all the new things you can do with the latest release (see insights below).
- Day 2 (tomorrow/Wednesday) is where Microsoft will dive deeper into all the things that can be done with .NET and the 24 hour broadcast begins.
- Day 3 (Thursday) continues the all day and night broadcast with speakers around the world in their own time zones.
Source: https://www.dotnetconf.net/
Key Insights from the .NET 5 Release
- .NET adoption is increasing | 5 million .NET developers.
2. .NET 5 provides significant performance enhancements.
2. .NET 5 provides improved Windows desktop development support.
3. Xamarin.Forms 5 is on the move with new productivity features.
4. Visual Studio has new functionality and enhancements (preview).
5. Full stack .NET web apps with Blazor in .NET 5 are streamlined.
6. Cloud native investments: Full support for web APIs & smaller, faster microservices (among others including Project Tye).
6. What's next? Single SDK, unified platform.
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