.NET Conf 2022 in a Nutshell🥜 (Key Highlights to Know)

.NET Conf 2022 is summarized here as a set of the main announcements and numbers shared at the event. The article groups the keynote around .NET 7 performance, C# 11, Blazor, Azure, Azure Container Apps, and .NET MAUI, and keeps returning to adoption and speed gains as the main thread.

It also points to the related video sessions for each topic and notes that Azure Functions already supports .NET 7, Azure Container Apps is positioned for serverless microservices, and Xamarin SDK support ends in May 2024. The MAUI section highlights rendering gains and the release roadmap.

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• The text brings together the main highlights of .NET Conf 2022 for anyone who did not follow the event live.
• The opening highlights the rapid adoption of .NET 6, .NET’s place among the most loved frameworks, and the volume of community contribution.
• The author organizes the coverage around .NET 7, C# 11, Blazor, Azure, and .NET MAUI.
• In .NET 7, the focus is on performance, with more than 1,000 improvements, almost twice as many as in .NET 6 and four times as many as in .NET 5.
• The text states that .NET 7 APIs can be up to 16% faster than .NET 6 APIs.
• It also compares the performance of .NET 7 APIs with Node.js and Java Servlet, using requests per second numbers.
• The coverage mentions work on minimal APIs and the idea of offering simple APIs with scalability.
• In C# 11, the text says that Mads Torgersen and Dustin Campbell explained how the version’s development was structured and discussed the new features.
• In the Blazor part of .NET 7, the text highlights the initial attention given to Blazor Hybrid within .NET MAUI.
• It also notes that many of Blazor’s new features work in Blazor Server, WebAssembly, and Hybrid.
• In the Azure section, the text says that Azure Functions already supports .NET 7.
• The text describes Azure Functions as a ready-to-code environment, without the burden of maintaining servers.
• In Azure Container Apps, the page says that the service is new and allows creating serverless containers for microservices.
• The text states that apps in the same environment share the same virtual network and can use the same logging and observability.
• In the .NET MAUI part, the author talks about strong adoption, compares GitHub stars, and cites performance gains in rendering.
• The text shows a benchmark comparison based on LOLs/sec and says that the comparison was tested on a Pixel 5.
• The coverage ends the .NET MAUI section with the release roadmap and with the information that support for Xamarin SDKs ends in May 2024.