Top 10 .NET Trends to Dominate in 2020

Dot net framework is almost fifteen years old and at the present time, there are millions of web applications developed over this utilizing multiple services incorporated by Microsoft Corporation. Technology trends have changed a lot in the last few years, innovative means have delivered a lot to develop the web, applications, or other projects on Microsoft. .NET framework is an effective tool for programmers to build web, Windows, Windows Server, Windows Phone, and Microsoft Azure applications. On the other hand, Dot NET Core framework is to develop a cross-platform device, cloud and IoT applications. Microsoft has recently launched the last release of .NET core 3.1 that is going to be the last separate version. It will be united with .NET after this release.

The new instances in the race are .NET Core, .Net 5, Azure Kubernetes services and so on. In this blog, you will learn about the major .NET trends that will dominate in 2020 and each of them in detail along with the features they have to make the app process simple for the programmers.

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.NET Core

The recently released .NET Core by Microsoft has become one of the most trending and admirable frameworks for web application development among many .Net software development companies. this framework consists of ASP.NET, Runtime, C#, ML.NET, AOT, GC, JIT, Base Class Library, VB.NET, Entity Framework, Xamarin, WinForms, F#, and WPF.

.NET Core 3.1 has offered several benefits to the developer, for instance, it is lighter, and quicker, which makes it perfect for cloud installations where density and speed are essential factors to consider. This will surely make it much simpler for coders to port desktop applications to .NET Core. However, .NET Core 3.1 is not considered as the functionality of the .NET Framework.

Let’s look at few expert opinions on .Net core that why it is dominating trend.

According to Shiv Gupta, CEO of ncrementors Web Solutions says “Recently Microsoft has released the .NET Core which is becoming one of the popular frameworks in the current market. It includes various features such as AOT, Runtime, Base Class Library, ASP.NET, C#, etc. It is smaller and faster which makes it ideal for cloud installations where density and speed are important. The framework has the ability to fast JSON reading and writing and supports HTTP/2 that makes it much easier for developers to port desktop applications to .NET Core.”

According to Laura Fuentes, Operator of Infinity Dish says “.Net Core by Microsoft has become extremely popular. Its fast speeds and small size are ideal for cloud applications. Blazor Framework is another option that is trending now and will continue to do so. It is straightforward and developer-friendly, and as a bonus doesn’t require any plugins to operate. A third trending choice is Azure Cloud due to t it’s massive storage capacity and the ability to access that data from pretty much anywhere.”

Introduction of .Net 5 Framework

.Net 5 has the capability to power some of the great and useful features of.net framework where .Net core, mono, Xamarin altogether provides the runtime to create web applications, libraries, and APIs for the Microsoft application development services.

The ultimate purpose of. Net 5 is to add extra power to the unified DotNet customers and their application projects to provide amazing deliverables for their platforms. .Net 5 has a lot to offer to the programmers and they can at least expect the same functioning that get from. Net core. As in Microsoft technology associate, this is useful for mobile as well as IoT platform development needs. Also, with these trending updates, coders are not required to choose from any of the frameworks like dotnet core, Dot Net framework, mono or other based upon the platform that is used to build the applications.

It offers some functionalities like-

1. Open-source and community-oriented services by .NET 5
2. SharePoint application development services and Smarter deployment
3. .NET 5 support all the platform features as well
4. It provides support for future updates
5. Installation side-by-side

One of the expert opinion on .Net 5 Framework and Blazor from Carol Tompkins, Business Development Consultant at Accounts Portal says, “.NET 5 has so many robust, highly advanced features. It's great to use, and migration to other frameworks such as Blazor and Angular is relatively easy and straightforward. Also, Blazor framework is free, open source, and allows users to create interactive user interfaces through C#.”

Some advantages for .NET programmers

Along with these extremely essential features, .Net 5 also offer major support to the programmers by offering

1. Java interoperability availability across many platforms
2. CoreFX provide support for the static compilation
3. Objective C and Swift interoperability support across several operating systems

Azure Kubernetes Service (Aks)

Azure Kubernetes Services refers to completely managed and highly available Kubernetes service which makes it simple for the programmers to deploy the containerized web app. Also offering serverless Kubernetes and continuous delivery experience with enterprise-grade security and governance to the programmer.

Some reason for its developer-friendly are:

By default, Kubernetes is a developer-friendly platform where developing, testing or deploying the micro service-oriented solutions need plenty of manual work to be done. To solve the cause, AZURE CLOUD SOLUTIONS, provides important tools that make them more productive and approachable for the developers. Now let us understand what does it offers to the developers-

1. This provides developers a swift end-to-end application development experience in addition to the integration options of the tools
2. It assists to provide access management utility with Azure directory and advanced identity and rules enforcement all across the clusters

Some key considerations:

In order to make and run the application successfully in Azure Kubernetes services, it is extremely essential to consider some strategies and their implementation. Some areas might include pod security, multi-tenancy, scheduler all business continuity for quick performance and by considering the best practices in the cluster developers can understand each of their importance and then implement them accordingly.

ML.NET 1.4 & Security

According to Jack Zmudzinski, a senior associate at Jack Zmudzinski, a senior associate at future-processing.com, there are two major trends for .Net in 2020 and, these are they

ML.NET 1.4

If you haven’t heard about this one yet, you will. Microsoft’s new update is big news at the moment as it has some fantastic new machine learning tricks up its sleeve. Essentially, an open source and cross platform machine learning framework, ML.NET 1.4 uses Model Builder and CLI (Command Line Interface) to allow users to build their own machine learning models. This will, in turn, help users to make use of tools such as Sentiment Analysis, Price and Sales Prediction, Customer Segmentation and image classification. Anyone who is serious about their CMS (Content Management System) will be all over this tool by the end of 2020 - guaranteed!

Security:

This year, we’ve all been using the internet a lot more than usual and, while this has been a good thing for a lot of brands - particularly those in the e-commerce sector - it also brings with it its own set of problems - namely, security. This is something that .NET takes incredibly seriously and, the team is constantly working to make things as secure as possible. As such, security features introduced by .NET include

1. Validations
2. Code Checks
3. Encryption updates
4. Code access security
5. MVC architecture

.NET will continue to innovate in terms of security, well into 2021.

Blazor in C#

Blazor is a templating language and a simplified version of Asp.Net Razor. It basically compiles and sends logic by utilizing web assembly (wasm). Through Blazor, you can implement interactive UIs, Blazor apps using C#, Html, and CSS rather than JavaScript. As a productive programming model, Blazor has the potential to be the direct competitor of JavaScript SPA (Single Page Application) frameworks like Angular, React, and VueJS. By utilizing different renderers, Blazor can create native mobile UIs as well.

Features of Blazor include:

1. Layouts
2. Forms and Validation
3. Routing mechanism
4. JavaScript Interoperability
5. Dependency injection
6. Server-side rendering, etc.

Advantages of Blazor:

1. Blazor is lighter and easy to learn. You can smoothly render the UIs with the help of DLL.
2. You can share the code both at the server-side and client-side.
3. As client-side Blazor is precompiled in nature, it is faster than JavaScript.
4. Server-side Blazor would have the same debugging capacity as that of other Asp.Net applications, etc.
5. It doesn’t need any add-ons or additional plugins.

Cloud Service

Cloud Service is a booming buzz in the market because it offers enormous storage capacity and eventually, saves great expenditure. No matter where you are in this world, you can have instant access to your resources stored in the cloud. Looking at the trend, Microsoft has implemented a cloud-based solution for the businesses i.e., Microsoft Azure. It provides big data and broad analytic solutions. The software development firms and businesses which follow Asp.Net can deploy their Asp.Net applications with MVC front-end on the cloud.

Let’s have a look at the benefits of Azure

1. Offers fine flexibility
2. Big data insights and easy data recovery
3. Reliable storage for business data
4. Excellent security and privacy maintenance of data
5. Scalability and many more.

Security with Asp.Net Framework

Any business which looks for developing its trade-related applications would first consider the security features. Because the development would include crucial modules such as payment gateways for customers, confidential data, sensitive data of the customer, etc. Therefore, any development platform needs to provide impeccable security and high privacy support for the data. And this is what the Asp.Net framework has with the fantastic support of MVC architecture. It delivers secure, reliable, scalable web applications with fabulous features such as encryption, validations, code access security, etc.

With every release of the Asp.Net framework, we would find regular update for security in the framework.

Asp.Net Core Docker images

Executing the Asp.Net Core Apps in Docker containers would be one of the interesting things to learn. To build quickly and package the apps in the form of docker images, the Docker platform utilizes a docker engine. These docker images would be in dockerfile format and need to be deployed, executed in the layered container. A command called docker pull assists us with downloading the docker images from a Registry.

There are certain reasons why people incline towards docker with .Net

1. It offers fabulous runtime as all the environment setup necessities would be specified inside the docker-compose.yml file. It ensures proper software installations in the container.
2. It is a version-controlled infrastructure.
3. It is as secure as your virtual machines.
4. It provides cloud-friendly deployment supporting Azure., etc.

Asp.Net Xamarin

Xamarin is an open-source platform that helps in building iOS, Windows, and Android based mobile applications with the assistance of .Net and C#. Actually, it extends the Asp.Net platform with astonishing libraries and tools which enable us to develop apps. To run the applications, Xamarin uses Mono as .Net implementation. Applications written in C# have significant improvements in features when compared to Objective-C and Java. The features include LINQ, generics, dynamic language features, parallel programming, lambdas, etc.

Being a part of a vibrant Dot Net ecosystem, it provides feature support with “write once and run anywhere” ease. And more importantly, it is backed by a large active community to resolve the concerns.

Dot Net Nuke

DNN, also known as Dot Net Nuke delivers fabulous web experience and helpful for marketers. It helps them in achieving their business goals by creating, altering, and measuring the quality content. The latest version of DNN is V9.7. Having with great performance, it also provides fine role-based security compared to competitive platforms. You can also build custom applications over the top of DNN Evoq.

Some page editing and maintenance features include

1. Content localization
2. Version Management
3. Inline Image Editor
4. Form builder
5. Workflow
6. Publisher
7. Drag and drop page
8. Limitless Content authors

Wrapping Up

.NET has been flourishing in the world of technology and become the face of every web application with its new useful features and release in the marketplace .NET has all the amazing features that make your application more scalable, secure, and reliable whether your plan is to develop dynamic websites, mobile application or business intelligence applications.