Ease of Use

.NET framework is relatively easier to use than other coding frameworks available in the market. Being an open-source web platform, it effortlessly integrates with all the databases, including clouds and ODBS.

Besides, it seamlessly gels with the SQL and MS SQL server.

The following are some of its noteworthy qualities:

• Develops diagrams and reports automatically from databases.
• Line-by-line debugging of codes and auto-refresh to verify if it’s working or not.
• Easy integration with all major cloud platforms, including Silverlight, MS Azure, AWS, etc.

Secure Applications

.NET is a highly secure framework for application development. It has in-built windows authentication that provides a high level of security to the entire application.

The framework also offers cryptography classes for developers, which makes it easy for them to encrypt and decrypt confidential data. Furthermore, many security mechanisms prevent SQL injections, phishing attacks, and more.

Scalability

.NET framework enhances and meets the emerging requirements of enterprises. Software built with .NET is competent and fully customizable to manage heavy loads during peak times.

It eliminates the need for re-investing in new applications by scaling itself as the business expands, with the assistance of software extensions and the technical support of skilled .NET developers.

Reliable Performance

Enterprises choose .NET as it is productive, reliable, and offers scalability. With the help of modern language constructs like asynchronous programming, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), and generics, developers can quickly develop applications.

.NET is also known for its quick performance. It consumes lower memory & computer power and takes less response time than many other prominent frameworks.

From database access to server-side rendering, .NET delivers on the performance benchmarks set in the industry.

Cross-Platform Design

One of the greatest benefits of the .NET framework is its cross-platform design. Developers can run .NET codes on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

This simplifies the software testing process on different platforms and allows developers to work on any system they want. It also enables developers to develop an application at a cheaper cost on any platform.

Furthermore, the .NET framework also offers solutions to run mobile apps on iOS and Android.

Wide Community

.NET has a wide community with more than 5 million .NET developers across the world.

The community offers essential support, regularly updates the framework, and makes sure that the framework runs in an appropriate condition. Companies can easily hire experienced and highly skilled developers to work on different projects.

The best part is that there is a lot of documentation to ensure that developers don’t get lost in the development process.

Supports JavaScript Frameworks

Being the latest framework from Microsoft, the .NET Core framework offers built-in templates for two popular JavaScript frameworks – React and Angular. This provides developers with the required infrastructure to develop client-side apps using JavaScript.

The JavaScript services majorly aim to exclude underlying plumbing, enabling developers to begin coding software sooner and making it easier to build front-end feature-rich web applications.

Wide Range of Libraries

.NET is a highly resourceful framework with a rich set of tools and libraries for development. With the NuGet package manager, developers can easily find and implement these libraries in different applications.

Visual Studio is an integrated development environment that offers a full development solution for enterprise software and applications. From developing to debugging, visual studio has excellent features that almost every developer admires in the .NET framework.

Performance

Performance being the key focus, .NET 7 includes the following improvements:

• On-stack replacement (OSR) allows switching long-running methods to more optimized versions in the middle of their execution.
• Improved Arm64 code generation.
• Integration of profile-guided optimization (PGO) with OSR to optimize and instrument additional things like delegates.
• Performance enhancements to the Mono runtime, which powers Android, iOS apps, and Blazor WebAssembly.

Generic Math

C# 11 and .NET 7 include innovations that enable the generic performance of mathematical operations.

For instance, earlier, an overload of the method for each type had to be included for adding two numbers. But now, only a single, generic method can be written, where the type parameter is restricted to be a number-like type.

System.Text.Json Serialization

.NET 7 enhances Sytem.Text.Json serialization in the following manner:

• User-defined type hierarchies are enhanced through polymorphic serialization.
• Contract customization gives more control over the serialization and deserialization of types.
• Support for required members, which is an important JSON payload feature for ensuring the success of deserialization.

Regular Expressions

.NET 7 has made the following performance and functional enhancements to .NET’s regular expression library:

• RegexOptions.NonBacktracking is a new option that allows matching using an approach that guarantees liner-time processing in the input length and avoids backtracking.
• Large performance gains for case-insensitive searches as all casing-related work is completed during Regex construction.
• The new methods included to support APIs are as follows:
  Regex.Count
  Regex.EnumerateMatches
  Regex.IsMatch(ReadOnlySpan)