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Delivering Skills in NuGet packages
Agent skills can be delivered in NuGet packages as a way to deliver up-to-date library documentation to models.
Get Ready for .NET Conf 2026!
.NET Conf is one week away! Join us November 10-13 for the launch of .NET 11, two days of Microsoft sessions, and two days of Community Days.
Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Syncfusion
Microsoft and Syncfusion are collaborating on Blazor through a free, open-source component toolkit, framework contributions, and developer tooling.
Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Infragistics
Microsoft and Infragistics are collaborating on Blazor through free, open-source components, new .NET 11 analyzers, and developer tooling.
.NET October 2026 Out-of-Band Security Updates
Out-of-band security updates for .NET address the Brotli decoder vulnerability and tarball ownership vulnerability.
Get Your .NET MAUI App Ready for Xcode 27
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
Bring Your Own Model to the GitHub Copilot SDK with C#
The GitHub Copilot SDK gives your application an agent runtime. BYOK lets you keep that runtime while sending model requests to your own Microsoft Foundry or Azure OpenAI deployment. Here is the complete C# setup.
Introducing dotnetup: A toolchain manager for .NET
Learn how the new dotnetup tool helps macOS and Linux developers install, manage, and update user-local .NET SDKs and runtimes.
Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2
.NET 11 Release Candidate 2 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms.