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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot!
May 19, 2025
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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot!

Jeffrey T. Fritz
Jeffrey T. Fritz

.NET Aspire 9.3 is the biggest release of .NET Aspire yet, with the introduction of GitHub Copilot directly into the .NET Aspire Dashboard, updates for integrat...

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Performance Improvements in .NET 8
Sep 13, 2023
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Performance Improvements in .NET 8

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

.NET 7 was super fast, .NET 8 is faster. Take an in-depth tour through over 500 pull requests that make that a reality.

.NET Framework September 2023 Security and Quality Rollup Updates
Sep 12, 2023
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.NET Framework September 2023 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

Salini Agarwal
Salini Agarwal

September 2023 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework.

Announcing .NET 8 Release Candidate 1
Sep 12, 2023
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Announcing .NET 8 Release Candidate 1

Leslie Richardson
Leslie Richardson

.NET 8 RC1 is now available with improvements to System.Text.Json, a new AOT mode for Android and WASM, Azure Managed Identity support for containers, and more!

EF Core 8 RC1: Complex types as value objects
Sep 12, 2023
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EF Core 8 RC1: Complex types as value objects

Arthur Vickers
Arthur Vickers

Announcing Entity Framework Core 8 (EF8) RC 1 with support for complex types used as value objects

Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Release Candidate 1: Quality
Sep 12, 2023
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Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Release Candidate 1: Quality

David Ortinau
David Ortinau

.NET MAUI in .NET 8 RC1 has more quality improvements for developers, and introduces the first step to supporting Xcode 15 beta and Apple SDKs.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Release Candidate 1
Sep 12, 2023
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ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Release Candidate 1

Daniel Roth
Daniel Roth

.NET 8 Release Candidate 1 is now available! Check out what's new in ASP.NET Core in this update.

.NET September 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.11, .NET 6.0.22
Sep 12, 2023
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.NET September 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.11, .NET 6.0.22

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)
Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Check out latest September 2023 updates for .NET 7.0 and .NET 6.0

WPF File Dialog Improvements in .NET 8
Sep 8, 2023
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WPF File Dialog Improvements in .NET 8

Dipesh Kumar
Dipesh Kumar

Announing OpenFolderDialog control and other file dialog properties in WPF in .NET 8.

Demystifying Retrieval Augmented Generation with .NET
Sep 6, 2023
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Demystifying Retrieval Augmented Generation with .NET

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

Build a chat-based console app with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) from scratch.