What is .net7?

.NET 7 is the successor to .NET 6 and was released in November 2022. It's a major release focusing on performance, developer productivity, and modern workloads. It's designated as a Standard Term Support (STS) release, meaning it's supported for 18 months. Here's a breakdown of key areas:

• Performance: .NET 7 brings significant performance improvements across the board. This includes improvements to the JIT compiler, garbage collector, and various libraries.

• .NET MAUI: .NET 7 enhanced support for MAUI, allowing developers to build cross-platform native applications for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android from a single codebase.

• Cloud Native: Enhanced capabilities for building cloud-native applications. Improved support for containers and microservices.

• ASP.NET Core: Includes improvements to ASP.NET%20Core, including minimal APIs for faster startup, and enhanced support for gRPC.

• C# 11: .NET 7 supports C#%2011, which introduces new features like required members, auto-default structs, raw string literals, and more.

• Observability: Improved observability tools to help developers monitor and troubleshoot their applications more effectively. This includes enhancements to metrics, logging, and tracing.

• Simplified Development: Focused on simplifying common development tasks and reducing boilerplate code.