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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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.NET Interactive Preview 3: VS Code Insiders and .NET Polyglot Notebooks
Sep 30, 2020
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.NET Interactive Preview 3: VS Code Insiders and .NET Polyglot Notebooks

Maria Naggaga
Maria Naggaga

With .NET Interactive Preview 3, we've added a VS Code Insiders experience and a number of new features to our existing .NET notebooks support for Jupyter.

Repo experience survey results
Sep 29, 2020
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Repo experience survey results

Sam Spencer
Sam Spencer

A couple of months ago we ran a survey of our github community to understand our users satisfaction and experience with the mechanics of how the projects are open-sourced with the community. This post shares the results.

ML.NET September Updates
Sep 25, 2020
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ML.NET September Updates

Bri Achtman
Bri Achtman

This release of ML.NET (1.5.2) brings numerous bug fixes and enhancements, while tooling updates include the ability to train object detection models using Azure ML via Model Builder and to locally train image classification models with the ML.NET CLI.

NET Core Releases and Support
Sep 23, 2020
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NET Core Releases and Support

Jamshed Damkewala
Jamshed Damkewala

7/15/2021: this post was revised to update the support period for "Current" releases from 15 months to 18 months, or 6 months after the next release ships.   While we've covered .NET Core releases, cadence and support policies in previous blog posts, the information has been distributed across a couple of individual posts. With the .NET 5 release just around the corner, we thought this is a good time to bring all the information together into a single post as a refresher on these topics. As we've covered previous posts, .NET Core releases have a very different model relative to .NET Framework so if ...

Using GitHub Codespaces with .NET Core
Sep 22, 2020
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Using GitHub Codespaces with .NET Core

Tim Heuer
Tim Heuer

We've updated our support for developing .NET Core applications in GitHub Codespaces using Visual Studio. Read about the added support we have for editors, testing, debugging, and Azure. Sign up to be invited to the preview for GitHub Codespaces and Visual Studio support!

Azure Static Web Apps with .NET and Blazor
Sep 22, 2020
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Azure Static Web Apps with .NET and Blazor

Aaron Powell
Aaron Powell

Azure Static Web Apps now has first-class support for Blazor WebAssembly and .NET Functions in preview, available in all supported regions. Check out how you can develop and deploy a frontend and a serverless API written entirely in .NET.

Debug Your .NET Core Apps in WSL 2 with Visual Studio
Sep 17, 2020
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Debug Your .NET Core Apps in WSL 2 with Visual Studio

Nathan Carlson
Nathan Carlson

The .NET Core Debugging with WSL 2 – Preview extension lets run and debug your .NET Core apps in WSL 2 from Visual Studio.

.NET Framework September 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update
Sep 16, 2020
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.NET Framework September 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update

Tara Overfield
Tara Overfield

The September 16, 2020 update includes cumulative reliability improvements in .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.2 and 4.8. We recommend that you apply this update as part of your regular maintenance routines.

The future of .NET Standard
Sep 15, 2020
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The future of .NET Standard

Immo Landwerth
Immo Landwerth

Since .NET 5 was announced, many of you have asked what this means for .NET Standard and whether it will still be relevant. In this post, I'm going to explain how .NET 5 improves code sharing and replaces .NET Standard. I'll also cover the cases where you still need .NET Standard.