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Introducing the Aspire Community Toolkit
Learn about the Aspire Community Toolkit, a collection of tools and libraries that help you build with Aspire.
Announcing .NET 9
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.
.NET and .NET Framework November 2024 servicing releases updates
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for November 2024.
Get Ready for .NET Conf 2024!
The biggest .NET event of the year is almost here, its all free, all online, and you're invited!
OpenSSF Scorecard for .NET and the NuGet ecosystem
OpenSSF Scorecard is a tool developed by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) that provides automated security assessments for open-source projects. The primary goal of the Scorecard project is to help developers and users determine the security posture of open-source software by generating a score based on a series of security-related checks. Using Scorecard, developers can assess the risks associated with each check and make informed decisions about accepting these risks, evaluating alternative solutions, or making improvements. Moreover, while projects can use GitHub Actions to generate a scorecar...
Unlocking the Power of GitHub Models in .NET with Semantic Kernel
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
Introducing Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData Preview
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.
.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Supports Upgrading to Centralized Package Mangement
Learn how to use the .NET Upgrade Assistant tool to upgrade your projects to use NuGet Central Package Management (CPM).
eShop infused with AI – a comprehensive intelligent app sample
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.