Hey .NET Fans! It’s that time of year again: .NET Conf is back November 10-12, 2026.
We’ll spend three days learning from the people who build and use .NET, catching up with the community, and launching .NET 11. The event is free and online, so mark your calendar and join us from wherever you are.
Get ready for the release of .NET 11
We’ve been busy building .NET 11, and there’s already plenty to try. The latest previews include work across the runtime, libraries, SDK, ASP.NET Core, C#, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, and more. We’re especially excited about C# 15 union types and the move to CoreCLR for .NET MAUI apps on Android, iOS, and Mac Catalyst. ASP.NET Core and Blazor also have a lot in store, including richer static SSR and form validation, smaller Blazor WebAssembly apps, a new development server, and smoother Aspire integration. Minimal APIs gain async validation and C# union type support, and OpenAPI 3.2 is now the default. Alongside the .NET 11 work, we’ve also released v2.0 of the official MCP C# SDK, with a stateless-by-default protocol designed to make building and scaling AI tools with ASP.NET Core more straightforward.
Catch up on what we’ve shared so far:
- Explore what’s new in .NET 11
- Explore what’s new in ASP.NET Core in .NET 11
- Explore union types in C# 15
- Follow the latest CoreCLR progress for .NET MAUI
- Read about v2.0 of the official MCP C# SDK
You can also hear directly from the teams in recent .NET Community Standups. There’s more on the way between now and November. We think you’re going to love what the teams have been working on, and we can’t wait to show you the rest at .NET Conf.
Schedule coming soon
We’re hard at work putting the product team schedule together. When the conference site and session list go live, we’ll publish those sessions on our new https://dot.net/conf mini-site and on the community-run https://dotnetconf.net site.
Interested in speaking?
We know you’re eager to submit your community sessions, and we hope to open the call for speakers within the next week. When it opens, we’ll share the news here on the .NET Blog, on both conference sites, and through our social channels. We’ll add selected community sessions to the schedule later.
For now, save November 10-12 and start thinking about what you might want to share. We’re excited to get the .NET community together again.
I always look forward to .NET Conf but one thing that's always been a frustration is the schedule.
As you get deeper and deeper into the conference it becomes harder and harder to find what's coming up next because you have to scroll through everything that's already happened.
There's a fairly trivial way to improve this (a bit of script using element.scrollIntoView() based on the UTC of schedule entries is the way I've done it before).
I don't see the .NET Conf website on github, but if I ever did (hint hint) I'd gladly submit a pull request if no one beat me...
Improving session navigation is definitely on our list for this year. That’s bugged me in the past too!
Really excited for .NET Conf 2026! .NET 11, C# 15 union types, ASP.NET Core improvements, and the latest AI/MCP tooling make this a very exciting release. Looking forward to learning from the .NET community and seeing what’s coming next. November 10–12 is on the calendar!