.NET 6 support

.NET is a free, open source framework used to create web, desktop, mobile, and other kinds of applications, using C#, F#, and Visual Basic (with C# being the most popular one).

A new version of .NET has been released every year. .NET 6 is a new long-term support version, which offers great new improvements, such as minimal APIs and C# 10 compatibility. For more information about the improvements, you can visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotnet-6.

Visual Studio 2022 is ready to create, compile, and publish projects using this new version.

In Chapter 4, Creating Projects and Templates, we will analyze the projects and templates provided by Visual Studio and look at the option to choose .NET 6 for our applications.

We can create projects using .NET 6, but we can also use a new functionality for quickly checking the code changes. In the next section, we will review how Hot Reload can improve our productivity while using Visual Studio...