Meeting a longstanding request from customers, Salesforce’s Heroku — one of many unique platforms as a service (PaaS) — has unveiled official assist for .NET improvement. Heroku additionally made its Heroku Next Generation Platform obtainable in a pilot. The firm stated the brand new platform, which helps cloud-native and AI purposes, will change into usually obtainable in early 2025.
In a December three announcement, Heroku stated builders now can construct and deploy purposes in C#, F#, and Visual Basic, leveraging frameworks comparable to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. In explaining its new .NET assist, Heroku stated .NET has developed from a Windows-only framework to a cross-platform, open supply ecosystem. Developers 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 purposes, Heroku stated.
A “getting started” tutorial for constructing a Blazor app utilizing a Heroku PostgreSQL database is on the market at devcenter.heroku.com. Also obtainable is Heroku .NET Support Reference documentation. In addition to .NET, Heroku lists Node.js, Python, Java, and Go as formally supported platforms. Heroku has confronted criticism for providing restricted deployment choices.
