Development Tools, Libraries and Frameworks, Microsoft .NET, Software Development

Microsoft has published Preview 2 of its planned .NET 11 software development platform, emphasizing progress ranging from native runtime async to smaller SDK installers for Linux and macOS. Released March 10, .NET 11 Preview 2 can be downloaded from net.microsoft.com. Preview 2 follows the February 10 release of Preview 1, with the production release expected…

.NET’s annual cadence has given the project a solid basis for rolling out new features, as well as a path for improving its foundations. No longer tied to Windows updates, the project can provide regular previews alongside its bug and security fixes, allowing us to get a glimpse of what is coming next and to…