Jeremy Likness

Jeremy Likness

Jeremy Likness is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft focused on .NET Web Frameworks.

Detailed Biography

Jeremy Likness is a Program Manager at Microsoft on the .NET team. Jeremy works on the overall experience interacting with data from .NET with a focus on Entity Framework Core and .NET for Spark. Jeremy is an author and international speaker. He was diagnosed with young onset Parkinson’s Disease in early 2020 and advocates for awareness and research for a cure. He spends most of his free time hiking the beautiful mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

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Articles Authored

  • 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.

  • Big Data and Machine Learning in .NET 5

    Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

    Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0

    Learn about .NET for Spark and ML.NET to help .NET 5 applications better use big data and machine learning (ML). This article includes a code walkthrough.

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