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Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer

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

Announcing Aspire 9.5

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


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

.NET AI Template Now Available in Preview

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

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!

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!

.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

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


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


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

New Features for Enhanced Razor Productivity!

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