Red Hat SummitChapter 3. Features and Benefits
3.1. Current Features and Benefits
.NET Core 3.0 offers the following features and benefits.
Runtime and framework libraries
.NET Core consists of the CoreCLR runtime and the CoreFX framework libraries as well as compilers, build tools, tools to fetch NuGet packages, and a command-line interface to tie everything together. Benefits include:
- Automatic memory management
- Type safety
- Delegates and lambdas
- Generic types
- Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
- Async programming
- Native interoperability
.NET Core 3.0 supports developing applications using ASP.NET Core 3.0 and EF Core 3.0, which bring benefits such as:
- Lightweight and modular HTTP request pipeline
- Ability to host on a web server or self-host in your own process
- Built on .NET Core, which supports true side-by-side app versioning
- Integrated support for creating and using NuGet packages
- Single aligned web stack for web UI and web APIs
- Cloud-ready environment-based configuration
- Built-in support for dependency injection
- New tooling that simplifies modern web development
3.2. New Features and Benefits
.NET Core 3.0 continues to broaden its support and tools for application development in an open source environment. The latest version of .NET Core includes the following improvements:
- Support for C# 8.0
- Support for F# 4.7
- Support for building Windows Desktop applications
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Supports
netstandard2.1 - Local tools
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Using perf-oriented CPU instructions (
System.Runtime.Intrinsics) - Native executables for framework-dependent applications
- Single-file executables
- Trimming applications on publish
- Ahead-of-time (AOT) compiled applications
- IEEE floating-point improvements
- Fast built-in JSON support
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Improved native interop using
NativeLibrary -
HTTP/2 support in
HttpClient - TPS 1.3 support on Linux systems with OpenSSL 1.1.1
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SerialPortsupport on Linux - Improved GC behavior in containers with small memory allocation, systems with more than 64 processors
- (Experimental) Huge page support
- ARM64 support for IoT scenarios
- Cross-platform diagnostic tools
- Support for building client-side web apps using Blazor
- Create high-performance backend services with gRPC
- HTTP/2 enabled by default in Kestrel
- New worker service template for building long-running services
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Authentication support integration with
IdentityServer
