Today, Microsoft announced the next milestone in the history of .NET. .NET 7 Preview 1 marks the first stage forward towards the next 20 years of .NET. Microsoft also announced ASP.NET Core Preview 1 and EF7 Preview 1 today.
.NET 7 builds on the foundation established by .NET 6, which includes a unified set of base libraries, SDK, and runtime, a simplified product experience, and increased developer productivity. Major areas of focus for .NET 7 include improved support for cloud-native strategies, tools to make it more comfortable to upgrade legacy projects, and simplifying the developer experience by making it easier to work with containers.