Hacker News with Generative AI: .NET

Uno Platform Studio: GUI Designer for Cross-Platform .NET Applications (platform.uno)
We are proud to introduce Uno Platform Studio, a suite of productivity tools featuring Hot Design, a next-generation Visual Designer for .NET cross-platform apps!

.NET, Cross-Platform Development, GUI Design

74 points by AbuAssar 5 days ago | 34 comments

Uno Platform Studio Featuring Hot Design (platform.uno)
We are proud to introduce Uno Platform Studio, a suite of productivity tools featuring Hot Design, a next-generation Visual Designer for .NET cross-platform apps!

.NET, Software Development, User Interfaces, Tools

58 points by noworriesnate 6 days ago | 21 comments

Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# (github.com/BAndysc)
A recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE and language in C# using Avalonia.

Programming, .NET, Visual Basic, Open Source, User Interfaces

377 points by porterde 6 days ago | 163 comments

Visual Basic 6 recreated as a cross-platform IDE in modern .NET – just 'for fun' (devclass.com)
Software engineer Bartosz Korczynski has created what he calls “a recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 (VB 6) IDE and language in C# with Avalonia,” running cross-platform, though he notes that the implementation of the VB6 language is limited and states that it is “purely a toy and for fun project.”

Software, .NET, Programming, Nostalgia, Cross-Platform

9 points by sea6ear 7 days ago | 0 comments

.NET 9 Is Out (github.com/dotnet)
The .NET 9.0.0 and .NET SDK 9.0.100 releases are available for download.

.NET, New Releases, Software

83 points by edtech_dev 8 days ago | 38 comments

.NET 9 (microsoft.com)
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of .NET 9, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet.

.NET, Programming, Software

53 points by runesoerensen 9 days ago | 26 comments

Net 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements (ndepend.com)
NET 9.0 brings significant improvements to LINQ performance, with some scenarios showing remarkable gains. Let’s take a closer look at what’s driving these enhancements. The lessons learned will be relevant to your code.

.NET, Performance, Programming, Software

203 points by olvy0 34 days ago | 216 comments

Just want simple TLS for your .internal network? (github.com/nh2)
Safely shareable TLS root CA for .internal networks using Name Constraints

Security, .NET, Networks, TLS, Certificates

245 points by nh2 34 days ago | 141 comments

PeachPie Compiler: Compile and run PHP on top of .NET runtime (peachpie.io)
Compile and run PHP on top the modern, secure and highly performant .NET runtime.

PHP, .NET, Programming Languages, Compilers

69 points by lemper 44 days ago | 20 comments

Scalable Server SQLite Apps (servicestack.net)
Ever since adding support for Litestream in our project's templates GitHub Action Deployments we've been using SQLite as the backend for our new .NET C# Apps as it's the most cost-effective option that frees us from needing to use a cloud managed database which lets us make use of Hetzner's much cheaper US Cloud VMs.

.NET, Databases, Cloud Computing, Serverless

10 points by mythz 45 days ago | 0 comments

tolower() small string performance (dotat.at)
When processing very small string fragments, what is the cross-over point between scalar code and AVX-512 with masked loads and stores?

Performance Optimization, String Manipulation, Assembly Language, .NET

3 points by jmillikin 50 days ago | 0 comments

Which .NET ORM – Dapper or Entity Framework? (dodgycoder.net)
Within the .NET ecosystem, two ORMs dominate, the lightweight Dapper (open source) and the fully featured Entity Framework (EF) by Microsoft.

.NET, ORMs, Software Development, Dapper, Entity Framework

4 points by damian2000 53 days ago | 2 comments

Scalable Server SQLite Apps (servicestack.net)
Ever since adding support for Litestream in our project's templates GitHub Action Deployments we've been using SQLite as the backend for our new .NET Apps as it's the most cost-effective option that frees us from needing to use a cloud managed database which lets us make use of Hetzner's much cheaper US Cloud VMs.

.NET, Databases, Cloud Computing, Cost Optimization

5 points by mythz 55 days ago | 1 comments

Why is F# code robust and reliable? (microsoft.com)
In Access Softek, we’ve been developing software for financial institutions using C# and .NET for two decades, at the same time suffering from lots of bugs.

Programming Languages, .NET, Software Development, Reliability

101 points by b-man 58 days ago | 85 comments

Rust panics under the hood, and implementing them in .NET (fractalfir.github.io)
I am currently working on a Rust to .NET compiler, rustc_codegen_clr. To get it to work, I need to implement many Rust features using .NET APIs. One of such features is panicking and unwinding.

Rust, .NET, Programming Languages, Compilers

145 points by todsacerdoti 59 days ago | 80 comments

Open Letter on the Visual Basic Strategy 2023 (github.com/dotnet)

Open Source, Programming Languages, .NET, Software Development

4 points by yeputons 59 days ago | 0 comments

Google Zanzibar: Implementing the Check API and Expand API Using .NET (2023) (bytefish.de)
In the previous articles we have seen how to implement a very simplified Relationship-based Access Control using a Google Zanzibar-like data model and some SQL queries. It worked good, and I quite like what we ended up with. But it doesn't let us define an effictive ACL, because at the moment we need to materialize all relations in the database.

.NET, Google Zanzibar, Access Control, Data Modeling, SQL

31 points by bytefish 60 days ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: Why is .NET never talked about as an option for solo/small team dev? (ycombinator.com)
Is there still a lot of stigma around it? Any downsides to using it for solo projects?

.NET, Programming, Software Development, Solo Development, Small Teams

53 points by mnk47 60 days ago | 73 comments

Using the Pinecone vector database in .NET (infoworld.com)
If you’re building generative AI applications, you need to control the data used to generate answers to user queries.

.NET, Generative AI, Vector Databases

1 points by benocodes 64 days ago | 1 comments

Performance Improvements in .NET 9 (microsoft.com)
Each year, summer arrives to find me daunted and excited to write about the performance improvements in the upcoming release of .NET. “Daunted,” because these posts, covering .NET 8, .NET 7, .NET 6, .NET 5, .NET Core 3.0, .NET Core 2.1, and .NET Core 2.0, have garnered a bit of a reputation I want to ensure the next iteration lives up to.

.NET, Performance, Software Development

46 points by high_na_euv 70 days ago | 1 comments

.NET 9 Release Candidate 1 is now available (microsoft.com)

.NET, Software, New Releases

13 points by vyrotek 71 days ago | 0 comments

Why is F# code so robust and reliable? (microsoft.com)
In Access Softek, we’ve been developing software for financial institutions using C# and .NET for two decades, at the same time suffering from lots of bugs.

Programming Languages, Software Development, Reliability, .NET

11 points by mikece 73 days ago | 2 comments

Deep .NET – Let's build our own ArrayPool with Toub and Hanselman [video] (youtube.com)

.NET, Programming, Video Tutorials, Software Development

8 points by shanselman 78 days ago | 1 comments

Sisk – Lightweight .NET Web Framework (sisk-framework.org)

.NET, Web Frameworks, Software

70 points by mrcsharp 82 days ago | 35 comments

Qt/.NET – Using QML in a .NET WPF Application (qt.io)

Qt, .NET, WPF, User Interfaces, Programming

34 points by jandeboevrie 83 days ago | 4 comments

Async2 – The .NET Runtime Async experiment concludes (steven-giesel.com)