.NET 8 MAUI News

.NET 8: A New Era of Performance and Productivity

November 23, 2023
Microsoft has officially released .NET 8, the latest version of its popular development platform.

Microsoft has released .NET 8, the latest version of its popular development platform. This new Long Term Support (LTS) release will be supported by Microsoft for three years after the initial release. .NET 8 delivers significant performance, stability, and security improvements, as well as platform and tooling enhancements that help increase developer productivity and speed of innovation.

Key highlights of .NET 8 include:

  • Unparalleled performance: .NET 8 comes with thousands of performance improvements across the stack.
  • .NET Aspire: An opinionated stack to build observable, production-ready cloud-native applications with .NET.
  • .NET 8 Container Enhancements: More secure, compact, and productive.
  • Native AoT: Compile your .NET apps into native code that uses less memory and starts instantly.
  • Artificial Intelligence: Infuse AI into your .NET applications.
  • Blazor: Build full stack web applications with .NET.
  • .NET MAUI: Elevated performance, reliability, and developer experience.
  • C# 12 Features: Simplified syntax for better developer productivity.

Learn more about .NET 8 in this blog post by Microsoft's Gaurav Seth, or see Microsoft's article What's New in .NET 8.

Many ComponentSource Partners are updating their products with support for .NET 8:

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Create Web, Desktop, and Mobile Apps for .NET 8 with Telerik

November 21, 2023
The latest updates add support for .NET 8, enabling users to build modern applications and reporting solutions targeting the new .NET release.

Progress Telerik is a leading software publisher that provides a range of tools and solutions to help developers build and deploy modern applications. Its product range include UI libraries, reporting tools and testing frameworks. Telerik products are used by millions of developers around the world to build a wide variety of applications.

The following Telerik products have been updated with support for .NET 8, allowing developers to build web, desktop, mobile and reporting apps in the latest version of Microsoft's popular framework: