Microsoft previews Hot Reload for .NET developers, sets date for .NET 6

Microsoft has previewed Hot Reload for .NET development, enabling on-the-fly changes to source code that are applied to a running application. The company also set the date for the first production release of .NET 6: November 9. Long-time Microsoft-platform developers will recall Edit and continue (EnC) as a feature of Visual …

[J27]

Sounds great, can't wait for the official release.

[Filippo]

I wonder if there's a way to "hot reload" outside the debugger? There are cases where I'd like to be able to upgrade a running program without stopping it.

[picturethis]

Security? -> anyone?

I wonder how many years (and updates) it will take before all of the security holes that this will introduce are patched.

Hackers are going to have a field day with this.

MS had better have a damn-secure way of when this is allowed and when this is not allowed.

MS track-record for security isn't exacly stellar...