#net

#net

Microsoft announced an extension to its .NET Standard Term Support releases from 18 months to 24 months, as reported on the company's official development blog. The policy change, effective with .NET 9, will extend support for the latest release until November 10, 2026, matching the end-of-support date for .NET 8, a Long Term Support version. As stated by Microsoft, the company will maintain its established annual release schedule each November.

Code Optimizations is an AI-based service running on Azure Application Insights that uses telemetry gathered by the Application Insights Profiler for .NET to analyse runtime behaviour, find performance bottlenecks down to individual methods, and provide actionable suggestions. Developers can view aggregated data over time (defaulting to a rolling 24‑hour window, with history up to 30 days) for their production and non-production environments.

Microsoft Build 2025 will feature a comprehensive lineup of .NET and C# content, with over 75 dedicated sessions designed to engage developers of all experience levels.

Refit simplifies consuming REST APIs by defining API endpoints as C# interfaces, eliminating manual HTTP request handling and response parsing.