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Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer
Oct 1, 2025
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Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer

Luis Quintanilla
Luis Quintanilla

Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview) unifies agent creation, orchestration, tooling, hosting, and observability so any .NET developer can ship production AI agen...

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Announcing Aspire 9.5
Sep 25, 2025
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Announcing Aspire 9.5

Jeffrey Fritz
Jeffrey Fritz

Aspire 9.5 adds the preview 'aspire update' command, single-file AppHost, richer CLI and dashboard UX, and new integrations for AI, DevTunnels, and more.

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.NET and .NET Framework March 2025 servicing releases updates
Mar 11, 2025
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.NET and .NET Framework March 2025 servicing releases updates

Tara Overfield Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)
Tara,
Rahul

A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for March 2025.

.NET AI Template Now Available in Preview
Mar 6, 2025
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.NET AI Template Now Available in Preview

Jordan Matthiesen
Jordan Matthiesen

Announcing the first preview of the .NET AI Template, for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and the .NET CLI. Get started building amazing AI apps with .NET.

Unlock new possibilities for AI Evaluations for .NET
Mar 3, 2025
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Unlock new possibilities for AI Evaluations for .NET

Wendy Breiding (SHE/HER)
Wendy Breiding (SHE/HER)

Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluations library is now open source, and a new Azure DevOps plug-in is available to make reporting in your CI pipelines easier than ever.

.NET 10 Preview 1 is now available!
Feb 25, 2025
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.NET 10 Preview 1 is now available!

.NET Team
.NET Team

Find out about the new features in .NET 10 Preview 1 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more!

.NET Aspire 9.1 is here with six great new dashboard features, and more!
Feb 25, 2025
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.NET Aspire 9.1 is here with six great new dashboard features, and more!

Maddy Montaquila
Maddy Montaquila

.NET Aspire 9.1 is here! From enhanced dashboard capabilities like Resource Relationships and Localization Overrides to improved Docker integration and flexible console logs, this release is packed with tools to streamline your development process.

Let’s Learn .NET: GitHub Copilot Event
Feb 24, 2025
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Let’s Learn .NET: GitHub Copilot Event

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

Join us for an exciting Let's Learn .NET live stream event where we will explore GitHub Copilot and its capabilities.

.NET MAUI Performance Features in .NET 9
Feb 20, 2025
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.NET MAUI Performance Features in .NET 9

Jonathan Peppers Simon Rozsival
Jonathan,
Simon

Optimize .NET MAUI application size and startup times with trimming and NativeAOT. Learn about `dotnet-trace` and `dotnet-gcdump` for measuring performance.

Building .NET AI apps with Chroma
Feb 19, 2025
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Building .NET AI apps with Chroma

Luis Quintanilla Jiri Cincura ↹
Luis,
Jiri

Get started building AI applications using Chroma DB using the C# client SDK.

New Features for Enhanced Razor Productivity!
Feb 13, 2025
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New Features for Enhanced Razor Productivity!

Leslie Richardson
Leslie Richardson

The Extract to Component refactoring and the Roslyn tokenizer are two new features designed to help improve your productivity in Razor files.