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Critical: .NET Install links are changing
The .NET installers and archives distribution method is currently changing unexpectedly. This change may impact your development, CI, and production infrastructure. It is crucial to validate if you are affected and monitor for any downtime or disruptions.
Top .NET Blogs Posts of 2024
Let's take a look back at the top .NET blogs from 2024 from exciting announcements, deep dives on new features, and so much more.
.NET Conf 2024 Recap – Celebrating .NET 9, AI, Community, & More
.NET Conf 2024 is over, but you can catch up with all the announcement and fun with video recordings, slides, demos, and more.
Exploring Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData with Qdrant and Azure AI Search
Discover how to use Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData to implement semantic search using Qdrant and Azure AI Search
Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.4! Partial properties support for MVVM, new analyzers, and more!
We're happy to announce the official launch of the .NET Community Toolkit 8.4 release, featuring support for partial properties for the MVVM Toolkit generators, new analyzers, bug fixes and enhancements, and more!
Invoking Async Power: What Awaits WinForms in .NET 9
With .NET 9, we’re bringing a suite of new async APIs to WinForms, aimed at making UI updates, dialog interactions, and control management more efficient.
Using Local AI models with Aspire
Let's look at how to build and run local AI models with Aspire.
Using Dependabot to Manage .NET SDK Updates
Learn how to use Dependabot to keep your .NET SDK version up to date with the latest security patches and improvements.
Dramatically faster package restores with .NET 9’s new NuGet resolver
.NET 9 introduces a new NuGet dependency graph resolver that dramatically improves package restore performance for large repositories. Learn how this reimagined approach reduces restore times from 30 minutes to just 2 minutes by creating a more efficient dependency graph with fewer nodes.