Microsoft .NET 7 zeroes in on containers and cloud

Microsoft has released a preview of .NET 7, the planned next version of the company’s .NET software development platform, with the promise of improved support for cloud-native and container scenarios.

Major focus areas for .NET 7 include better support for cloud-native scenarios, along with tools that make it easier for developers to upgrade legacy projects and to work with containers. .NET 7 also promises developer experience improvements such as simplification of setup and configuration for secure authentication and authorization, and improving application startup and runtime execution.

.NET 7 Preview 1 includes annotations to APIs to support nullability, new APIs, ongoing JIT compiler optimizations, and support for additional hot reload scenarios. Published February 17, the Preview 1 can be downloaded from dotnet.microsoft.com for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. The general release of .NET 7 is expected in November. .NET 7 builds on the foundation of .NET 6, which arrived in November 2021 and includes a unified set of base libraries, runtime, SDK, and a simplified development experience.

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