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Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 1
.NET 11 Release Candidate 1 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, C#, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms.
.NET Conf 2026 Community Days Call for Presenters Is Open
Submit your session proposal for the community-led .NET Conf 2026 Community Days by October 6, 2026.
.NET and .NET Framework September 2026 servicing releases updates
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for September 2026.
Test what you ship: MSTest and Native AOT
MSTest source generation lets test projects use the same Native AOT and trimming deployment model as the applications they validate, while reducing reflection on the test execution path.
How Uno Platform uses .NET, MCP, and AI to build high quality apps
How Uno Platform built two Model Context Protocol servers in C# so AI agents can ground themselves in real documentation and then see and drive a running cross-platform .NET app.
.NET Conf 2026 – Save the Date
.NET Conf returns November 10-12, 2026, with three days of sessions, community, and the launch of .NET 11.
From dotnet run to Foundry Hosted Agent in 3 lines of C#
You built an agent with Microsoft Agent Framework and it works great on your machine. Now what? Turns out deploying it to production takes 1 NuGet package, 3 lines of C#, and 2 commands. Let's do it.
Explore new features available in C# 15 preview
C# 15 ships with .NET 11. It adds union types, closed hierarchies, a preview of the updated unsafe model, and a few smaller changes that remove everyday ceremony.
Routing and Failover for Microsoft.Extensions.AI
Route requests across models and providers natively in Microsoft.Extensions.AI with RoutingChatClient, SemanticRoutingChatClient, and FailoverChatClient — new experimental primitives for content-based routing, failover, and custom routing policies.