Angelos Petropoulos
Angelos Petropoulos is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft working on .NET, Azure, and Visual Studio.
Detailed Biography
Angelos Petropoulos is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft working on .NET, Azure and Visual Studio. Before joining Microsoft, he spent 10 years designing and implementing enterprise applications as a .NET consultant. He was born in Greece, but he studied in the UK where he got a BSc in Software Engineering and a MSc in Object-Oriented Software Technology. He’s one of those guys who still creates new WinForms projects.
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What’s New in .NET 7
Last updated: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2022 - Vol. 19 - Issue 1 - .NET 7.0
In "What’s New in .NET 7," Jon Douglas highlights the latest .NET release focusing on significant performance improvements, enhanced cloud-native capabilities, and developer productivity boosts through features like C# 11, .NET MAUI, and built-in container support. The article emphasizes easier modernization of legacy apps, optimized ARM64 performance, enriched observability, and the introduction of Native AOT for faster startup and smaller deployments. Jon conveys that .NET 7 builds on prior unification efforts to empower developers to build any application across platforms with improved runtime, libraries, and tooling, making it Microsoft's fastest and most versatile .NET release yet.
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Azure Tools for .NET in Visual Studio 2019
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
Overview of how to use Visual Studio 2019 to consume Azure services from a .NET app and deploy your app to Azure using the revamped Connected Services experience. Get started using Connected Services to add service dependencies to your application.