Exploring .Net 5 and .Net 6

Today we are joined by Scott Hunter, Director of Programme Management at Microsoft, who delivers a talk on .NET 5 and .NET 6.

This talk covers the state of .NET and gives us an overview of all the new capabilities in .NET 5, including new features for building smaller, faster Web API’s and gRPC for Microservices, Windows desktop enhancements including ClickOnce, and the new features in Blazor for SPA’s. We also talk about the journey to One .NET and show a preview of Project Tye for building and publishing Microservices. We end with a look to the future in .NET 6.

About the speaker

Scott Hunter is responsible for the Microsoft’s .NET platform, which includes the .NET Framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, .NET Tools, Web Tools and the managed languages (C#, F# and VB). Prior to leading the .NET Platform, Hunter helped the Azure Developer Experience team build the Azure SDK’s, App Service Tooling, Azure Redis Cache, Azure API Management, ASP.NET, Entity Framework and the Web Tooling. In his spare time he loves hiking mountains around the world. Scott grew up in Little Rock, AR and went to college in Fayetteville before heading to the West Coast for a startup and Microsoft.

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