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October 2026

  1. Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Syncfusion
  2. Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Infragistics
  3. .NET October 2026 Out-of-Band Security Updates
  4. Get Your .NET MAUI App Ready for Xcode 27
  5. Bring Your Own Model to the GitHub Copilot SDK with C#
  6. Introducing dotnetup: A toolchain manager for .NET
  7. Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2
  8. .NET and .NET Framework October 2026 servicing releases updates
  9. Durable Task in the Real World: What Problems Does It Actually Solve?
  10. A faster, lighter C# Dev Kit
  11. UWP and WinUI 3 apps: UI testing with MSTest

September 2026

  1. Build Agentic UI with the new Blazor AI components
  2. AG-UI Protocol now has a first-class .NET SDK
  3. Microsoft is updating its author-signing certificate starting September 23, 2026
  4. Creating a memory dump in C#
  5. Build Your Own AI Agent Harness in C#, the MafClaw Live Series
  6. Performance Improvements in .NET 11
  7. Share your .NET story with the community
  8. Use C# unions and closed hierarchies in ASP.NET Core
  9. Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 1
  10. .NET Conf 2026 Community Days Call for Presenters Is Open
  11. .NET and .NET Framework September 2026 servicing releases updates
  12. Test what you ship: MSTest and Native AOT

August 2026

  1. How Uno Platform uses .NET, MCP, and AI to build high quality apps
  2. .NET Conf 2026 – Save the Date
  3. From dotnet run to Foundry Hosted Agent in 3 lines of C#
  4. Explore new features available in C# 15 preview
  5. Routing and Failover for Microsoft.Extensions.AI
  6. Instructions Hygiene – What Frontier Models Still Need You to Say
  7. .NET 11 Preview 7 is now available!
  8. .NET and .NET Framework August 2026 servicing releases updates
  9. Test reporting in Microsoft.Testing.Platform: from red build to root cause
  10. Beyond Chat: live Speech-to-Text with Foundry Local and C#
  11. Strengthening NuGet Supply Chain Security: Reducing API Key Lifetime

July 2026

  1. From generated code to trusted code with a unit-test agent
  2. Announcing v2.0 of the official MCP C# SDK
  3. Analyze MSBuild Binary Logs with Copilot in VS Code
  4. Announcing .NET Modernization for Beginners
  5. .NET and .NET Framework July 2026 servicing releases updates
  6. CoreCLR Progress and the Mono Timeline for .NET MAUI
  7. .NET 11 Preview 6 is now available!
  8. Modernize .NET applications in the GitHub Copilot app

June 2026

  1. MCP Beyond the Chat Window: Build Diagnostics in CI
  2. .NET 8 and .NET 9 will reach End of Support on November 10, 2026
  3. SkiaSharp 4.0 is here: announcing the first stable release
  4. Packaging and Package Identity for .NET apps with WinApp CLI on Windows
  5. AI-Powered MSBuild Investigation with the Microsoft Binlog MCP Server
  6. Join us for .NET Day on Agentic Modernization Livestream
  7. .NET 11 Preview 5 is now available!
  8. .NET and .NET Framework June 2026 servicing releases updates
  9. .NET at Microsoft Build 2026: Must watch sessions

May 2026

  1. Doing More with GitHub Copilot as a .NET Developer
  2. Give Your .NET MAUI Android Apps a Material 3 Makeover
  3. Announcing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET
  4. Improving C# Memory Safety
  5. NuGet Package Pruning: Cleaner Dependencies and Actionable Vulnerability Reports
  6. Process API Improvements in .NET 11
  7. .NET MAUI Moves to CoreCLR in .NET 11
  8. .NET 11 Preview 4 is now available!
  9. .NET and .NET Framework May 2026 servicing releases updates
  10. Copilot Studio gets faster with .NET 10 on WebAssembly
  11. Durable Workflows in the Microsoft Agent Framework
  12. Microsoft Agent Framework – Building Blocks for AI Part 3

April 2026

  1. Building an AI-Powered Conference App with .NET’s Composable AI Stack
  2. VSTest is Removing its Newtonsoft.Json Dependency
  3. Governing MCP tool calls in .NET with the Agent Governance Toolkit
  4. Welcome to SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1
  5. High-Performance Distributed Caching with .NET and Postgres on Azure
  6. Combining API versioning with OpenAPI in .NET 10 applications
  7. What’s new for .NET in Ubuntu 26.04
  8. .NET 10.0.7 Out-of-Band Security Update
  9. Writing Node.js addons with .NET Native AOT
  10. Pin Clustering in .NET MAUI Maps
  11. .NET and .NET Framework April 2026 servicing releases updates
  12. .NET 11 Preview 3 is now available!
  13. Your Migration’s Source of Truth: The Modernization Assessment
  14. ASP.NET Core 2.3 end of support announcement
  15. Explore union types in C# 15

March 2026

  1. Generative AI for Beginners .NET: Version 2 on .NET 10
  2. Ten Months with Copilot Coding Agent in dotnet/runtime
  3. Accelerating .NET MAUI Development with AI Agents
  4. RT.Assistant: A Multi-Agent Voice Bot Using .NET and OpenAI
  5. Modernize .NET Anywhere with GitHub Copilot
  6. .NET 10.0.5 Out-of-Band Release – macOS Debugger Fix
  7. .NET 11 Preview 2 is now available!
  8. .NET and .NET Framework March 2026 servicing releases updates
  9. Extend your coding agent with .NET Skills
  10. Release v1.0 of the official MCP C# SDK

February 2026

  1. Vector Data in .NET – Building Blocks for AI Part 2
  2. The Dongle Died at Midnight – WinForms Agent Saved my German Mom’s Business Trip
  3. GitHub Copilot Testing for .NET Brings AI-powered Unit Tests to Visual Studio 2026
  4. .NET 11 Preview 1 is now available!
  5. .NET and .NET Framework February 2026 servicing releases updates
  6. .NET Framework 3.5 Moves to Standalone Deployment in new versions of Windows

January 2026

  1. .NET AI Essentials – The Core Building Blocks Explained
  2. Join Microsoft at NDC London 2026 – Let’s Build the Future of .NET Together
  3. .NET and .NET Framework January 2026 servicing releases updates
  4. How to Build Android Widgets with .NET MAUI
  5. How We Synchronize .NET’s Virtual Monorepo
  6. Secure and Intelligent: Queryable Encryption and Vector Search in MongoDB EF Core Provider
  7. Generative AI with Large Language Models in C# in 2026

December 2025

  1. Top .NET Videos & Live Streams of 2025
  2. Top .NET Blog Posts of 2025
  3. Microsoft.Testing.Platform Now Fully Supported in Azure DevOps
  4. How to Build iOS Widgets with .NET MAUI
  5. .NET and .NET Framework December 2025 servicing releases updates
  6. Implementing Cross-Platform In-App Billing in .NET MAUI Applications
  7. Microsoft Learn MCP Server Elevates Development
  8. .NET 10 Networking Improvements
  9. .NET Conf 2025 Recap – Celebrating .NET 10, Visual Studio 2026, AI, Community, & More
  10. Introducing Data Ingestion Building Blocks (Preview)

November 2025

  1. .NET Day on Agentic Modernization Coming Soon
  2. Reinventing how .NET Builds and Ships (Again)
  3. Supercharge Your Test Coverage with GitHub Copilot Testing for .NET
  4. A step-by-step guide to modernizing .NET applications with GitHub Copilot agent mode
  5. Post-Quantum Cryptography in .NET
  6. Introducing C# 14
  7. Introducing F# 10
  8. Announcing .NET 10
  9. .NET and .NET Framework November 2025 servicing releases updates
  10. How Copilot Studio uses .NET and WebAssembly for performance and innovation
  11. Get Ready for .NET Conf 2025!

October 2025

  1. Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert
  2. Announcing Sponsorship on NuGet.org
  3. Upgrading to Microsoft Agent Framework in Your .NET AI Chat App
  4. .NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates
  5. Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2
  6. Announcing the .NET Security Group
  7. Preparing for the .NET 10 GC (DATAS)
  8. Developer and AI Code Reviewer: Reviewing AI-Generated Code in .NET
  9. Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer

September 2025

  1. Preparing Your .NET MAUI Apps for Google Play’s 16 KB Page Size Requirement
  2. Announcing Aspire 9.5
  3. Exploring Text-to-Image capabilities in .NET
  4. New Trusted Publishing enhances security on NuGet.org
  5. Prompt Files and Instructions Files Explained
  6. .NET STS releases supported for 24 months
  7. Application Insights Code Optimizations for .NET Apps
  8. Performance Improvements in .NET 10
  9. Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 1
  10. .NET and .NET Framework September 2025 servicing releases updates
  11. Let Copilot Coding Agent handle the busy work

August 2025

  1. Getting Started with the Aspire CLI
  2. EFCore.Visualizer – View Entity Framework Core query plan inside Visual Studio
  3. MauiReactor: An MVU Approach for .NET MAUI
  4. Enhance your CLI testing workflow with the new dotnet test
  5. Copilot Diagnostics toolset for .NET In Visual Studio
  6. GPT-OSS – A C# Guide with Ollama
  7. Announcing the NuGet MCP Server Preview
  8. .NET 10 Preview 7 is now available!

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