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Join the .NET & C# Teams at Microsoft Build 2025
The countdown to Microsoft Build 2025 is on! Join us May 19-22 either in-person in Seattle or online and explore an exciting lineup of .NET and C# content, incl...
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Building Real‑Time iOS Apps with SignalR: Introducing the Official Swift Client (Public Preview)
Introduction Until now, iOS developers who wanted real‑time, bi‑directional communication with SignalR had to rely on community‑built clients or roll their own Swift implementation—both of which introduced maintenance and compatibility headaches. We’re excited to announce that the official SignalR Swift client is now available in public preview. With this release, you can: In this post you’ll learn how to set up the Swift client and use its core features. During a recent .NET Community Standup, we demoed an AI-enabled chat sample that uses SignalR for streaming AI‑generated tokens to iOS clie...
Introducing the AI Dev Gallery: Your Gateway to Local AI Development with .NET
Discover the new AI Dev Gallery, a Windows application that provides interactive local AI samples, easy model downloads, and source code export - all built with .NET AI building blocks.
Preview 2 of the .NET AI Template Now Available
Preview 2 of the .NET AI Chat Web App template introduces support for .NET Aspire and Qdrant vector database integration, making it easier to create cloud-native AI-powered chat applications with custom data.
Build MCP Remote Servers with Azure Functions
Build AI-powered tools quickly using Azure Functions to create remote MCP servers that seamlessly integrate with GitHub Copilot and other LLM-based applications.
.NET 10 Preview 3 is now available!
Find out about the new features in .NET 10 Preview 3 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more!
.NET Aspire 9.2 is Now Available with New Ways to Deploy
.NET Aspire 9.2 is now available with cool new dashboard features and introducing the publishers feature
.NET and .NET Framework April 2025 servicing releases updates
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for April 2025.
How we ended up rewriting NuGet Restore in .NET 9
Learn about the journey that led to a full rewrite of the NuGet Restore algorithm in .NET 9, achieving break-through scale and performance.
Build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in C#
Learn how to build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server using the C# SDK to enable seamless communication between AI models and applications.