.NET 7 provides a rate limiter middleware for setting rate limiting policies. Web apps can configure these policies in Program.cs and then use them with API endpoints.

There are 1000 reasons why, but in short: .NET 7 got about 1000 performance-impacting PRs across the runtime, core libraries, ASP.NET Core, Windows Forms, Entity Framework and beyond. Here's a quick summary of what got improved: 𝗝𝗜𝗧 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗿: Superior assembly code dumping, inlining, and vectorization. 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿: Enhanced memory management with reduced fragmentation. 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗢𝗧: Improved startup time & reduced memory usage.

.𝐍𝐄𝐓 8 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬. Data annotations are basically used for model validation. These are the attributes that can be applied to the members of the class to specify some validation rules. In this blog, we will discuss one of the enhancements in data annotation for the class member validation in .NET 8.