The dot net developer company is bringing its latest release in November of 2020 which will be called .NET 5.
This is completely different from the rest of the frameworks provided by the .NET so far. In this article, we will see how it is different from the rest of the others and how it is beneficial for developers across the world?
What is .NET5?
.NET 5 is a version that will not belong to any other class of frameworks or Core separately. Rather it will have the best of all others. It will have the properties, functionalities, and features of the .NET framework, .NET Core, Mono, and Xamarin, in fact, the best of these. It will include libraries and APIs with the help of which developers can make applications and programs for web, IoT devices, mobile, and Windows as well.
.NET is a collection of tools and frameworks through which one can create and develop software, test and run them. And finally, deploy that software that can be operated on a number of platforms including Web Assembly, IoTs, Android, watch OS, Windows, macOS, tvOS, Linux, and iOS. Now as this software can be used on different platforms so, they can be used on various devices as well, be it desktops, tablets, web browsers, mobile phones, or IoT devices, etc.
This will be the next version after the .NET 3 which has already been released in October this year. What is special about this .NET 5 is that it brings everything of .NET within one single unified platform. Users or developers will find everything from high-level libraries to low-level ones, APIs and runtime components, tools, compilers, type systems, and languages as well. Though the complete version of the .NET 5 will be available by November of 2020, its preview will be released in the first of the year which will be carried by the Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio 2019.
Moreover, the dates of the later versions have also been announced. The next versions are named in sequence - .NET 6.0, .NET 7.0, and .NET 8.0. And it is expected that all these versions just like .NET 5 will be released in the month of November of their respective year of release.
Features of the .NET 5
The dot net developer has included the following features in the .NET 5. Let us go through them one by one.
- One unified platform for everything from Windows to Data Science, Cloud, Mac, Machine learning, IoT, Web, Gaming, and mobile.
- .NET 5 is backed by Microsoft and is thus managed by an open-source community.
- It provides a cross-platform that can be operated on any device and anywhere.
- Enriched with the capabilities of all three platforms namely, .NET framework, Xamarin and as well as .NET Core. The capabilities provided include LINQ, WPF, ASP.NET MVC, Windows Forms, Entity Framework, UWP and so on.
- It has the support of the best tools such as the Command Line Interface(CLI), VS Code, VS for Mac, etc.
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- This is not all it has high scalability and high performance along with being fast.
- Deployment in .NET 5 is smaller and so are the packages.
Support of various languages and Runtimes
Now as the .NET is a compilation of properties of different frameworks and platforms so it provides the runtimes of Xamarin and .NET Core together in it. Moreover, they will be evolved and worked upon together in the future.
You will find all the compilers, runtimes and languages as well in .NET 5 that belong to the .NET framework and .NET Core. XAML, C#, VB.NET, and F# are expected to be provided by .NET as the supported languages.
What more does the .NET 5 have in store for us?
According to the providers of asp.net development services, .NET 5 will have all the features that developers are fond of in .NET Core. This includes cross-platform implementation, support for using the platform-specific inclinations to their fullest, a command-line interface and high performance, along with the integration of the different types of Visual Studio, small project files, and many more. So the users of .NET Core or the users of the .NET framework will not be disappointed.
And this was not all. .NET 5 will render more options on runtimes, extended support of the CodeFX, Java interoperability on a number of programs, along with the interoperability of object C and swift across various operating systems.
The partner program manager at Microsoft also revealed some information about it in his mail to SD times. It stated the following words:
“As we move forward toward .NET 5 we will bring in the best of Mono and its support for native execution and small footprint for the smallest of devices. Having one .NET instead of three simplifies the choices and the platform for new and existing developers.”
This shows that the providers of asp.net development services are bringing the best of .NET in the form of .NET 5.
Improvements that the .NET 5 is expected to bring with it
Following are the expectations or improvements that the provider of SharePoint development services, Microsoft has from the .NET 5.
- Curate one such .NET framework that has a defined runtime and astounding developer experience that can be attained anywhere in the world.
- Inculcate a larger number of capabilities by taking in stride the best properties of .NET framework and Core, Mono as well as Xamarin.
- Develop it in such a manner that it is made out of a single code. This would make working on it in the future for expansion an easy task to do.
Wrapping it up
So you see not only us the users but the developers themselves have a lot of expectations from the .NET 5. The custom software development company Microsoft has bought quite useful products and applications in the past and continues to do. Earlier it presented the world with SharePoint development services and a never-ending list of devices and applications, frameworks, etc. So we can say that .NET 5 will also be a promising one.