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Nov 12, 2024

Announcing .NET 9

.NET Team

Announcing the release of .NET 9, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C#, .NET MAUI, .NET Aspire, and so much more.

Nov 7, 2024

Get Ready for .NET Conf 2024!

Jeffrey Fritz

The biggest .NET event of the year is almost here, its all free, all online, and you're invited!

Oct 31, 2024

Unlocking the Power of GitHub Models in .NET with Semantic Kernel

Bruno Capuano

Explore how to integrate GitHub's AI models, like GPT, Llama and Phi, into your .NET apps using Microsoft's Semantic Kernel for intelligent applications

Oct 29, 2024

Introducing Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData Preview

Luis Quintanilla

We are excited to introduce the Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData.Abstractions package available in preview today. This new package provides a unified abstraction layer that enables you to integrate vector stores into your .NET applications.

Oct 24, 2024

.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Supports Upgrading to Centralized Package Mangement

McKenna Barlow

Learn how to use the .NET Upgrade Assistant tool to upgrade your projects to use NuGet Central Package Management (CPM).

Oct 23, 2024

eShop infused with AI – a comprehensive intelligent app sample

Jeremy Likness

Go beyond a simple demo app that demonstrates a chat bot and explore a real-world scale application that is infused with AI and illustrates the value of intelligent apps with features like semantic search, summarization, classification, sentiment scoring, chatbot, test data generation, evaluation tool, and E2E testing.

Oct 22, 2024

.NET MAUI Welcomes Syncfusion Open-source Contributions

David Ortinau

Announcing the release of the Syncfusion Toolkit for .NET MAUI, a set of free, open-source controls for .NET MAUI! Syncfusion has made 14 impressive UI controls freely available for .NET MAUI developers.