Assembly a longstanding request from customers, Salesforce’s Heroku — one of many authentic platforms as a service (PaaS) — has unveiled official help for .NET improvement. Heroku additionally made its Heroku Subsequent Era Platform accessible in a pilot. The corporate stated the brand new platform, which helps cloud-native and AI functions, will turn into usually accessible in early 2025.
In a December 3 announcement, Heroku stated builders now can construct and deploy functions in C#, F#, and Visible Primary, leveraging frameworks corresponding to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. In explaining its new .NET help, Heroku stated .NET has developed from a Home windows-only framework to a cross-platform, open supply ecosystem. Builders for years have relied on community-built buildpacks to run .NET apps on Heroku. Now .NET builders can anticipate a cohesive, dependable expertise and constant updates, rigorous testing, and high quality assurance to construct and scale functions, Heroku stated.
A “getting began” tutorial for constructing a Blazor app utilizing a Heroku PostgreSQL database is offered at devcenter.heroku.com. Additionally accessible is Heroku .NET Assist Reference documentation. Along with .NET, Heroku lists Node.js, Python, Java, and Go as formally supported platforms. Heroku has confronted criticism for providing restricted deployment choices.
