.NET Monthly Roundup - March 2024 - .NET 9 Preview 2, Smart Components, AI fun, and more!

Jon Galloway - Apr 9 - - Dev Community

📆Welcome to our March .NET Monthly Roundup with Jon Galloway! In just 3 minutes, Jon breaks down the latest news from the month of March 2024 that .NET developers need to know.

Top links

📚All the links

🌟.NET 9 Preview 2
➡️.NET 9 Preview 2 Discussion
➡️ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 2
➡️ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 2 Release Notes
➡️EF Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 2
➡️.NET Aspire preview 4 - .NET Aspire

🧪Smart Components🧪
➡️Introducing .NET Smart Components - AI-powered UI controls

🤖AI Fun
➡️Get started with .NET 8 and AI using new quickstart tutorials
➡️Get Started with Milvus Vector DB in .NET

⚙️Visual Studio and Tools Updates
➡️Unity extension for Visual Studio Code - Now Generally Available
➡️A new MSBuild editing experience

⚠️.NET 7 End of Support
➡️.NET 7 will reach End of Support on May 14, 2024

📺Top Video Recommendation
➡️Writing async/await from scratch in C# with Stephen Toub

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With so much new information coming at you each month, we're looking at ways to bring you the highlights. Let us know if this helps, and how we can do it better next month!

Jon

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