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David Pallmann

Author: David Pallmann

David Pallmann is a senior product manager on the AWS Transform team who focuses on the .NET developer experience. David has previously served in engineering, consulting, product, and tech manager roles. He worked on WCF, and later created Neuron ESB, the first .NET-based enterprise service bus. Follow him on X at @davidpallmann.

.NET 8 Support on AWS

James Eastham, Norm Johanson, and Ulili Nhaga contributed to this post. Introduction .NET 8 is the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of cross-platform .NET, released in November 2023. .NET 8 includes performance improvements, container enhancements, C# language simplified syntax, Blazor support for full-stack web applications, and ASP.NET Core partial support for Native Ahead of […]

Add AI-powered coding assistance to Visual Studio with Amazon CodeWhisperer

Chris Christou, Craig Bossie, and Saurabh Ajmera contributed to this post. As of April 30th 2024, Amazon CodeWhisperer is now part of Amazon Q Developer. Introduction Amazon CodeWhisperer (CodeWhisperer) is an AI-powered developer productivity tool that generates code suggestions. CodeWhisperer integration with Visual Studio is now available in preview. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio […]

AWS Modernization Tools now support .NET 8

AWS provides assistive tools that help architects, developers, and IT professionals modernize .NET workloads. On November 14th, Microsoft released .NET 8, the latest Long-Term Support (LTS) version of the .NET platform. .NET 8 includes extensive performance improvements, container enhancements, C# language simplified syntax, Blazor support for full-stack web applications, and ASP.NET Core support for Native […]

Reserve your seat: .NET Sessions at AWS re:Invent 2023

Amazon Web Services will host its annual AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas from November 27th-December 1st. In this post, I’ll review the .NET sessions at re:Invent 2023 and opportunities to network. AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. The in-person event features keynote announcements, training and […]

Find Your Pathway to .NET Modernization on AWS

This post mentions AWS products that have reached end of support. Refer to AWS for Microsoft workloads for current Windows modernization services from AWS. AWS has supported .NET workloads since 2008. Over the years, .NET has changed from a less flexible, Windows-only framework to a modular, cross-platform runtime. Today, you can run legacy .NET Framework […]