.NET is becoming the most favorable open-source technology in crafting avant-garde software. In recent times, .NET has undergone significant updates, every day a new development trend emerges. I have listed all the crucial features, trends, frameworks, and libraries, which you should go for in 2022.

#1 Blazor for web development

Blazor is an advanced feature of a .NET web development framework, which you can use to produce web applications using the C# language. It offers reusable web components to integrate with HTML and CSS. While using Blazor, you can write both client and server-side code using the same language.

In addition, you can adjoin Blazor with the SignalR for running real-time applications and to provide a seamless experience to users by running client events directly on the server.

#2 Advancement in ASP.NET Core

Microsoft is rolling out new .NET Core updates. One can channel its features to crafting full-stack applications, REST APIs, and configuring bi-directional data transmission in the client-server architecture. Also, you can create independent docker containers to run your application using a microservices structure.

#3 .NET 6

Microsoft no longer provides support for the .NET version 5.0 and all the users have to switch to .NET 6. It is an LTS release, offering stable support for up to three years along with assuring a hot reload, intelligent code auditing, and diagnostics using the Visual Studio 2022 version. Moreover, you can use the Crossgen2 with .NET 6 to shorten the application load time.

#4 Upgrade assistant

With evolving user bases, organizations are finding difficulties in handling core operations using the legacy systems. .NET Upgrade Assistant helps developers to move software from an outdated platform to a newer version, without affecting the data. Currently, it supports the modernization of a few projects, which include, MVC-based applications, console, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, C#, and Visual Basic.

#5 High-tech security mechanisms

Software Engineers can rely on .NET to maintain data integrity, confidentiality, and availability. Advantages: in-built module to enable HTTPS, prevention of scripting attacks by analyzing every packet and user request, authentication system to check the identity of every user, options to configure role-based security.

#6 .NET MAUI

For building native applications you can use .NET Multi-platform App UI. C# and XAML are the primary languages, which you can use for furnishing apps capable of running on iOS, Windows, Android and macOS through a sharable source code.

With MAUI, you have options such as sharing single and multiple files from one device to another, maintaining data security using the key-value combination approach, implementing text-to-speech modules, analyzing the network, bandwidth, and latency in real-time.

#7 ML.NET

Automating tasks and processing multi-dimensional data are becoming the basic necessities of medium and large institutions. And for such purposes, using the capability of Machine Learning is a perfect choice. With ML.NET you can develop custom algorithms, components, and modules for embedding detection, recognition, and self-optimizing features. Developers can also use the Apache Spark engine to perform analytics.

#8 Games with .NET

With the .NET game development framework, you can build highly-performing games, supporting 4K graphic resolution for desktops, mobile, and even VR/AR consoles. Developers can in real-time back up the application using the Azure cloud.

#9 Azure cloud integration

Nowadays, most of the applications are running on serverless architecture and you can flawlessly have such functionality using the Azure Cloud. It is a product of Microsoft, which works most comfortably with every .NET application, whether it’s a desktop, mobile, game, IoT or ML project. In addition, it has in-built functions to enable Signal, for delivering up-to-the-minute data to users without affecting the current status of a webpage.

#10 .NET and IoT

With .NET, you can build IoT applications, providing the current status of hardware and software of every smart device through a single interface. Its internal architecture consistently functions with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Pine A64, and all other major boards. Additionally, you can avail the benefits of the .NET Nano and Meadow IoT framework to write, test, deploy and maintain the code by directly accessing peripheral components.