A Summit Series Event:

Understanding .NET 5.0

May 7 th — 2020
 Featured Speaker – Davin Mickelson

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• Developed Application Since 1995 – C/C++, C#, VB, F#

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 Understanding .NET 5.0

Seminar Agenda
1. Welcome!
2. A Brief History of .NET
3. What is .NET 5?
4. JIT vs AOT
5. .NET 5 Release Timeline
6. Setting up and Developing with 5
7. Migrating Existing Apps to 5

Presentation Length: 60 to 90 Minutes

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1: Welcome!

Thank you for Attending!

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2: A Brief History of .NET

.NET Framework 1.0 Released - February 2002 (18 years old!)
• ECMA 334, C# - https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm
• ECMA 335, .NET CLI - https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm
• Fun fact: Generics are also registered with ECMA!
Microsoft has always struggled to version their software consistently
• .NET 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8
• Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, 2000, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 10X
• Microsoft’s love affair with the letter “X” (ActiveX, XNA, .aspx, .docx, DirectX, Surface Pro X, Xbox, etc.)
.NET Mono Released - 2004
• .NET for Linux, UNIX, Apple, Windows
• Xamarin for Mobile Apps
• https://www.mono-project.com/
• Ximian (1999), Novell (2003), Attachmate (2011), Xamarin (2011), Microsoft (2016)
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2: A Brief History of .NET

.NET Standard for .NET Framework, Core, Mono, UWP, Xamarin, Unity
• Create portable libraries that are usable across .NET implementations
• .NET Standard 2.1+ Broke Compatibility with .NET Framework! L
• Announcement: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/net-standard
• Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/net-standard
• .NET Standard probably going away with .NET 5
Xamarin 2016+
• Use to create applications on mobile devices (iOS and Android) with C# and .NET
• After acquiring Xamarin, Microsoft made it free and OSS
• Compiled for native performance
• Develop in Windows and Mac
• https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/xamarin
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2: A Brief History of .NET

.NET Core 1, 2, 3 (2016+)
• Intended to run on multiple platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows)
• Initially only included Console, EF, and Web APIs
• Each new version added APIs ported from .NET Framework.
• .NET Core 3.x included desktop APIs WinForms and WPF
• “Microsoft is done porting APIs to .NET Core with 3.x”
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/
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3: What is .NET 5?
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3: What is .NET 5?
It is the gathering and culmination of all the popular frameworks into one
• .NET Core, Xamarin, ported .NET Framework APIs, Mono, Unity, ML.NET, and more
• It will be officially released in November 2020
• Early preview version are being released now!
Parts of .NET Framework were left behind
• ASP.NET Web Forms (consider Web Pages as a possible port)
• WCF (consider CoreWCF OSS project. Also consider Web API or gRPC)
• WF (consider CoreWF OSS solution)
• Parts of EF, Miscellaneous (small) other stuff
• Remember, though, .NET Framework will remain!
“.NET Framework 4.8 will be the last major version of .NET Framework.”
• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-core-is-the-future-of-net/
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4: JIT vs. AOT

The .NET Framework has always used Just In Time (JIT) compilation
• Compiles .NET Intermediate Language (IL) code to machine code
• The .NET runtime would JIT-compile the IL code loaded and used
• They were optimized for the OS, architecture (x86/x64), and other environment factors (memory, etc.)
• Required an initial cost of time at first startup
• Could be forced to be AOT compiled with ngen.exe, a .NET CLI compilation tool
.NET 5.0+ will support Ahead Of Time (AOT) compilation
• The Mono team used an AOT compiler for .NET, based on the industry-leading LLVM compiler project
• It enables .NET code to be built into a single native code executable that can run on a machine
• AOT-compiled apps can run efficiently in small places, and trades throughput for startup if needed
• AOT is already supported and used with Blazor.NET!
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5: .NET 5 Release Timeline

.NET 5 will be released in November 2020
• Note the General Availability (GA)
and Long-Term Support (LTS) Dates
• Everything will be under
the umbrella of .NET 5
• .NET 6.0/7.0/8.0 + will
include new features added

Right now, we can

download and install a
preview version of .NET 5
• There have already been
three releases as of today
(05/07/2020)
• .NET Core 3+ applications
can be upgraded to .NET 5
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6: Setting Up and Developing with 5

First, install Visual Studio 2019 Preview Edition (v16.6.0 (Preview 5))
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/
• It can be safely installed side by side with your regular Visual Studio 2019 installation
• Choose Community (free!), Professional, or Enterprise edition
• All editions will work fine unless you need a feature specific to one of the edition
• Be sure to install all the features you need in Visual Studio Installer
• NOTE: You won’t bother with this step if you work on Linux or MacOS
Second, install the appropriate .NET 5 Software Development Kit (SDK) here:
• https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/5.0
• You can download the Linux, macOS, or Windows versions
• The SDK includes the runtime libraries too!
• All three preview versions are available here
• Typically a new version is released every 2-4 weeks
• Using the command line, install the project templates you will use
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6: Setting Up and Developing with 5

Want to check out Blazor?
• https://blazor.net
• By default, you will only be able to create server-side WebAssembly (wasm) applications
• Wasm is the exciting new 4th API support (besides HTML, CSS, and ES6) by all of today’s web browsers!
https://www.caniuse.com/#feat=wasm
• Remember that was applications are compile AOT for
higher performance

If you want to check out the upcoming Blazor

Client-Side Web projects, you’ll need to install
the project template, here:
• Notice that I have two project templates appearing!
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Templates/
• Just use the CLI command
• Note that this is for .NET Core 3.1 – not .NET 5!
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7: Migrating Existing Apps to 5

First, make sure your application is upgraded to .NET Core 3.1
• Test it thoroughly to make sure the upgrade went fine
• Simply upgrading a .NET Framework app to .NET Core should demonstrate a performance increase!
Existing .NET Core 3 applications can be upgraded to .NET 5 (if installed)
• To be clear, don’t upgrade production apps yet!
• To upgrade a project to >NET 5, modify the .csproj file to netcoreapp5.0
• Steve Gordon has a great blog post and video showing how simple it is.
https://www.stevejgordon.co.uk/upgrading-from-asp-net-core-3-1-to-5-0-preview-1
Remember that this is all experimental
• You are just seeing how well it will work and what upgrade pains lie ahead
• Also remember that it’s not fully baked. Report bugs that you discover
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Seminar Resources
Website: The .NET Blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/
This is the best source on what is happening with .NET 5
Be careful what other blogs you read
Specifically, their age in relation to the latest release
Other links throughout the slide deck
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