.NET 8 and C# 12 Launch - What is New, What is Improved, and What is Supported

.NET 8, C# 12, and Visual Studio 17.8 are launching tomorrow. In this video, we will look at what is being launched, how long it will be supported for, and why you might want to upgrade. This video will cover the highlights and won't be a coding video. Those will start once .NET 8 officially launches. However, this will give you a good overview of what is included in the update and what you should look out for when upgrading.

[runtimmytimer]

The concept of "performance is money" in the cloud is something I feel many developers don't think about.

[markharwood]

Thanks Tim. Great to hear your enthusiasm for .net8 especially Blazor, it really looks like Microsoft have done a great job on it and enjoyed watching it develop with the previews, can't wait for tomorrow. I've got a project I'm building right now that's going to get the full conversion :)

[smileyrs]

I am really happy that the blazor course is updated RIGHT when it launches. LOVE IT Tim !

[pawelpawel]

Thanks for the video. I knew that there will be some changes for Blazor in .NET 8 but of what You told today I got super hyped on those changes. My projects are getting yet another upgrade after the Dapper upgrade from last week monday episode (hundreds of lines of code gone or moved to the different locations - works the same as it used to :-) thanks again). Especially excited about the hybrid possibilities. I decided to go with the blazor server project and in some cases in my client copmany there is a network connection problem and it's a bit annoying for them. But with the new blazor auto rendering I am hoping to fix it without rewriting my entire app and creating new one. Looking forward for the new videos. Great job.

[georgebeierberkeley]

Hot reload improvements, huh? I have never gotten that to work. Thanks for the video. Great content.

[nsedwards]

hahaha you're loving your Blazor I love it, another great video, thanks Tim

[wildrice]

Thanks for this overview, Tim ... very helpful!

[andergarcia]

Incredible master, knowing all of these things makes me realize how powerful and complete .NET is, and it makes me love this technology even more.

[ionutb]

:) just went for the all access pass earlier today :p, can’t wait for the new courses

[AparnaSubirDas]

Thanks, I like your contents. As this was a summary video, I hope you can finish it in a short time window and talk about the explanation in your detailed tutorial video.

[JaimeHaddad]

Thanks Tim for this great video. Actually I am taking the C# MasterCourse and enjoying so far. I am from the old guard that used to work with VB but wanted to move forward with new technology and current trends. I don't know much about ASP .Net core nor Blazor but now I have a better understand on what is this about. Seems WinForms is not longer the trend but interesting see where all of this is going to. Thanks again.

[adriangriffith]

6:22 into this and you are finally going to talk about "what's new" ... brilliant

[gabrielaEarthling]

I just want to say that .NET MAUI "had a bit of reputation for being a little bit buggy" is an understatement! :D Thank you for the video!

[richardshi]

There are so many new stuff to Blazor. Tim, it’s time to create a brand new Blazor course (I bought your Blazor course which was based on .Net 5 and since then you added some patch videos for the new .net 6 features). Look forward to it.

[ruthy]

I'm still teaching 6. I've got to admit, I kind of hate the pace since core launched, but there are some amazing new things coming along.

[parkerwarner]

Thanks for the great vid! Such an exciting time!

[animaniaco]

Great video, thanks! But I've missed coding examples so much!

[TicaVladimir]

When you mentioned Data Validation and CSV file validation, which library were you referring to and what are the most significant changes?

[EskiMoThor]

How do people keep up with all these updates and figure out what to do with them?

I mean, do companies have a formal team process with data collection, triage, sorting, filtering evaluating, or is it all just individual, going by gut feeling and using social media to feed you new information, or somewhere in between?

I suppose there is a lot of variation from company to company and person to person, but has anyone done any work to figure out if there are any patterns to what works and/or what are the best practices for staying current in technology?

[jayschwarz]

After watching this video, I upgraded .Net, VS, and EF. It went smooth except my Winform app started getting an exception when connecting to SQLExpress. I had to add Encrypt=false in the SQL connection string to get around the error.