.NET
2026-04-29
VSTest will remove its Newtonsoft.Json dependency in .NET 11 and Visual Studio 18.8. The post says it explains who is affected and how to adjust to the change.
2026-03-23
The .NET team reports on ten months of using GitHub Copilot Coding Agent in dotnet/runtime and summarizes lessons from cloud-AI-assisted development. The post is a data-driven retrospective rather than a feature release.
2026-03-09
Microsoft introduced the dotnet/skills repository, describing a set of .NET “agent skills” intended to extend coding agents and improve agent-driven development workflows.
2026-03-05
MCP C# SDK v1.0 focuses on improved authorization handling, expanded metadata support, and added patterns for tool calling and long-running operations.
2026-02-26
Microsoft describes Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData as a .NET library that standardizes access to vector databases for semantic search scenarios.
Microsoft AI Foundry Blog
2026-02-20
Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate for both .NET and Python. Microsoft states the v1.0 API surface is stable and intended v1.0 features are complete on the path to General Availability.