Almir Vuk

Last week, Microsoft's team released Aspire 13.5, an update that refreshes the dashboard and the aspire.dev homepage, expands the ways an AppHost can interact with developers, and adds more flexibility to how applications are deployed. According to the release, earlier Aspire 13 work focused on expanding the tool across languages, deployment targets, and coding agents, including a full-parity TypeScript AppHost, new command-line features, and Kubernetes and Docker Compose deployment integrations.

Last week, Microsoft's team released .NET 11 Preview 7, an update that brings changes and improvements to the C# language, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, Windows Forms, and F#. In the C# area, the can now name an enclosing loop or switch, so code can leave or continue an outer construct directly from an inner one without a flag or a goto. string?

During July updates, Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 6, an update that brings changes to the C# language, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Entity Framework Core. In the C# area, extension members now include indexers, allowing developers to add this[...] access to an existing type from an extension block. The feature completes the extension members work introduced in .NET 10, which previously covered only methods and properties. The release also advances union types, first shown in Preview 5.