Daniel Roth: .NET 10 Preview 1 – Episode 340

Challenges

  • Keeping up with new .NET releases and understanding their impact on existing projects.
  • Ensuring performance improvements and optimizations align with real-world application needs.
  • Adapting to new features while maintaining code quality and stability.

Solutions

  • Discussing key .NET 10 enhancements to provide clarity on what’s changing.
  • Highlighting performance upgrades and best practices for implementation.
  • Sharing insights on how to smoothly adopt new features without disrupting workflows.

Benefits

  • Developers gain a clear understanding of .NET 10’s new capabilities.
  • Improved performance and efficiency with the latest optimizations.
  • Better preparation for adopting .NET 10 in production environments.

Daniel Roth is a Principal Product Manager on the ASP.NET team working on ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and other web features. He has previously worked on various parts of .NET, including System.Net, WCF, XAML, and ASP.NET. His passions include building frameworks for modern Web frameworks that are simple and easy to use.

Topics of Discussion:
[03:15] Daniel shares his journey from back-end services to front-end development.
[06:10] Blazor and its impact on development.
[08:32] A few of the strengths we get with .NET.
[09:24] .NET 9 and performance improvements.
[12:45] .NET 10 Preview 1 and new features.
[17:32] Architectural guidance for Blazor applications.
[30:17] The importance of handling state persistence to avoid memory bloat and security issues.
[32:32] Observability and telemetry in Blazor.
[36:28] Is the nature of the UI web user interface changing as we integrate AI technology?
[37:12] Integration of AI and Generative AI in Blazor.
[37:38] The new Microsoft Extensions AI library for interfacing with chat services in .NET applications.