.NET/.NET Core customers showcase

Sustainability is always front and center for Vestas, and the company relies on a robust cloud-native architecture to run high-performance applications like the Vestas turbine simulator and help the company reach its sustainability goals. With the open-source, cross-platform .NET, Vestas can easily accommodate workloads that require 400,000 cores and petabytes of data to run digital twins at scale. By using .NET-compatible technologies like Microsoft Azure Functions, Web API, Application Insights, and Blazor, Vestas is streamlining processes to better run applications that help the company make the world a greener place.

Coaches, parents, and players rely on NBC Sports Next's Sports Engine team management mobile application to manage team games, rosters, calendars, RSVPs, game statistics, and more. In 2022, the NBC Sports Next mobile development team revised their Sports Engine app using .NET MAUI. The adoption of .NET MAUI enabled the team to coordinate and share code across web, mobile, and their APIs, leading to features being delivered to the market "in record time."

Developed by Turn 10 Studios and Playground Games and published by Xbox Game Studios, the Forza Horizon series has grown in popularity with each new title. As the series has exploded in size, so too has the infrastructure needed to support it. They met this challenge by transitioning to containers and Azure Kubernetes Services for their .NET services that power the game.

Geocaching, the world's biggest game of hide-and-seek, leverages the power of .NET APIs to power their hybrid tech stack. They have been able to grow from thousands to millions of customers and scaled across the globe because their entire back end is built with .NET.

Microsoft Graph is an API Gateway that provides unified access to data and intelligence in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. The service needs to run at very high scale and to make efficient use of Azure computing resources. By using .NET 6, Microsoft Graph has achieved both of these goals.

XAP is the application that sits in the middle of the Bing architecture stack and is responsible for much of the coordination among thousands of other components that provide results for all queries. It is also one of the world's largest, most complex, highly performant, and reliable .NET applications. The XAP team saw significant performance improvements by migrating from .NET Framework to .NET 5.

nopCommerce serves over 60K e-commerce shops with the power of ASP.NET Core on .NET 7. This open-source platform has 1,500+ integration offerings like plugins, themes, and language packs.

A core component of the Azure Cosmos DB service is the API Gateway that handles request parsing and routing across all supported APIs. Over the years, the API Gateway migrated from .NET Framework to .NET Core and now runs on .NET 6. This critical piece of infrastructure utilizes multiple .NET performance and scalability features to achieve low latency, high throughput request processing end to end.

Azure Active Directory's gateway service is a reverse proxy that fronts hundreds of services that make up Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Azure AD gained efficiency by migrating from .NET 5 to .NET 6.

"In less than 20 minutes, I had a working prototype in .NET Core, deployed to Azure, with permissions properly set up…. Instead of spending a lot of time debating theories and approaches with no prior experience to rely on, we had a working demo ready to drive decision making in minutes." - Mike Smith: Lead Software Developer

"The Microsoft technology made it easy for us. It just works. We saved months of development time in the process." - George Beech, System Administrator

"There was no debate about which language to use. .NET Core is a really great choice." - Richard Pineo, Software Developer

"Microsoft designed .NET Core with a microservice architecture in mind, and that fits right in with our redesign plans." - Shanyou Zhang, Senior Software Architect

".NET Core is an amazing technology. With .NET Core, our customers can now run the software on a wide spectrum of devices. It also gives us strong benefits with regard to operation costs in the cloud, because we can use it to run some workloads on Linux machines." - Thomas Gossler, Lead Architect, Digital Ecosystem Platform

"I knew we wanted to use .NET, and Azure is the best cloud for .NET. What's more, with .NET, we would get access to Blazor and Xamarin, which let us use C# across the entire application stack, from front end to back end to mobile—an approach that has proven to be very effective in terms of both speed and cost." - Ken Myers, Chief Technology Officer

OneService is a Microsoft service that powers various content experiences in Microsoft Start, Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft Windows. Over two years, OneService converted a large number of .NET Framework 4.7.2 apps, libraries, and test projects to .NET 6 and are now almost entirely running on .NET 6 in production. This migration helped reduce operation cost and improve developer experiences.

"We're using .NET Core 3 to help us eliminate the technical hurdles we had in the manufacturing process. The long-term impact will be significantly faster development." - Tyler Thompson: Senior Software Engineer

SparePartsNow revolutionizes a multibillion-dollar market using highly scalable Azure services. "We prefer a tightly integrated development experience...The entire team has comprehensive experience in the web, .NET Core, and Azure DevOps world, so the Azure platform was a natural choice for us, due to factors like team fit, good integration with tooling, technical maturity, and the potential to scale." - Sebastian Kleinschmager: SparePartsNow Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

STOPWATCH needed a platform and toolset that would enable it to go cloud-native from day one. The company chose Microsoft Azure, .NET, and Visual Studio, giving it everything it needed: fully managed services that let developers stay focused on meeting customer needs instead of managing infrastructure; a programming framework optimized for harnessing the power of both Azure services and open source; and a toolkit for pulling all of the different pieces of its solution together as a highly collaborative team.

"It could have cost us millions of dollars to move our intellectual property without the support Microsoft provides. Our patented software represents a significant investment." - Steven Gittleson: Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer

"The fact that .NET Core is cross-platform allows developers more freedom in how they develop the product, because at the end of the day, it's going to run on .NET Core, and that will be macOS, Linux, or Windows." - Jonathan Channon, Software Architect

Microsoft 365 Substrate services are a set of productivity services descended from Microsoft Exchange. Substrate has seen performance and cost-efficiency improvements since migrating some of its services from .NET Framework to .NET Core.

Microsoft Teams is the ultimate messaging app for your organization—a workspace for real-time collaboration and communication, meetings, file and app sharing, and even the occasional emoji! It has seen performance and cost-efficiency improvements since migrating some of its services from .NET Framework to .NET Core.

FortisAlberta delivers safe and reliable electricity service to more than a half-million residential, farm, and business customers across central and southern Alberta, Canada. This story explores how FortisAlberta employees streamlined operations by shifting the paper-based process used to document injury prevention plans (IPPs) to a digital solution using a custom-built .NET application.

Colin's, part of Eroğlu Holding, is a Jean-focused fashion retailer. Having already deployed products like Dynamics CRM, Microsoft's .NET for its software, the company's digitalization journey is now taking a major leap forward through Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service based POS (Point of Sale) application.

Ignition Group, a South Africa–based technology business focusing on customer engagement, builds sales-support tools and value-added services for the businesses it serves. The order processing software was originally developed using .NET Framework and Windows Workflow Foundation. The engineering team chose to move to .NET Core to speed up the development of microservices and deploy them to Azure Kubernetes Service.

Based on Microsoft Azure services, with Azure API Management and .NET Core as a development tool, Delhaize Serbia can now reach out to customers in a more effective and efficient way.