.NET/.NET Core customers showcase
Customers all over the world, in many different industries, rely on .NET to solve their business problems
H&R Block
.NET is "opportunity of a lifetime" for developers, says H&R Block Principal Architect.
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio
Find out how Visual Studio integrates GitHub Copilot, architectural detail, .NET implementation, and the importance of the indexing service for providing context-aware AI code suggestions.
Vestas
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.
NBC Sports Next
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."
Alpha Outdoors: Red-Point
Alpha Outdoors' Red-Point mobile app built with .NET MAUI, Unity, and Azure brings rock-climbing to the masses. They digitize 3D scans from drones of rock-climbing locations and take the information to offer GPS-based navigation and detailed 3D route visualizations that could be accessed offline to reduce the risk of climbers embarking on incorrect or dangerous routes. Learn about their journey with .NET.
Forza Horizon 5
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
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
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.
Bing
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
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.
Azure Cosmos DB
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.
Visma Spcs
Visma Spcs is a leading software company providing modern services to simplify accounting, HR, payroll, and more. They've successfully integrated AI and Semantic Kernel with .NET to revolutionize their customer experience. Customers can now find the right information quickly and easily, ask questions and get accurate answers, and locate references to the correct documentation.
Azure Active Directory
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.
Chipotle
"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
Stack Overflow
"The Microsoft technology made it easy for us. It just works. We saved months of development time in the process." - George Beech, System Administrator
GE Aviation
"There was no debate about which language to use. .NET Core is a really great choice." - Richard Pineo, Software Developer
Tencent
"Microsoft designed .NET Core with a microservice architecture in mind, and that fits right in with our redesign plans." - Shanyou Zhang, Senior Software Architect
Siemens Healthineers
".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
The Postage
"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
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.
SetPoint Medical
"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
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
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.
LightSail
"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
VQ Communications
"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
Exchange
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.
FortisAlberta Inc.
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.
Microsoft Teams
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.
Colin's
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
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.
Delhaize Serbia
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.
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