Since it was first introduced in 2002, Microsoft’s .NET Framework has garnered a robust user base that includes organizations like UPS, Stack Overflow, and Jet.com. And now, thanks to the rise of the .NET Core runtime, this high-performance framework also supports cross-platform development. To provide deeper visibility into all of these environments, we are pleased to announce that Datadog APM and distributed tracing are generally available for .NET Framework and .NET Core applications.

Working in C#, as with any language, you’ll soon find that that you need to do some debugging. With C#, thankfully, due to a plethora of debugging tools and techniques, troubleshooting is usually straightforward.

At some point in our careers, many of us have found ourselves working on a project that requires performance tuning. The need to write high performance .NET code should come from performance issues or business needs. Today, we’ll take a look at just a few of the ways we can improve our .NET application’s performance. And hopefully, you’ll take away something that you can use on your current and future products.

Raygun’s Launch Notes are your regular roundup of all the improvements we made to Raygun last month—from major features to performance updates.

Garbage collection is a key component of many modern programming languages, including C#. It’s even hard to imagine what programming would look like in C#, and other modern languages like Java, Ruby, and many others, without this tool.