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A year-end roundup of the most-read .NET blog posts published in 2025, highlighting coverage of .NET 10, AI in .NET, performance improvements, and developer tooling, with links back to the original .NET Blog.
Azure DevOps now fully supports Microsoft.Testing.Platform, enabling teams to run tests and publish test results directly within Azure DevOps pipelines and workflows. The update improves integration between the testing platform and Azure DevOps for streamlined test execution and reporting.
A how-to article showing developers how to build iOS widgets using .NET MAUI, covering creation of widgets ranging from simple static displays to richer interactive experiences.
A brief recap of the December 2025 servicing updates for both .NET and .NET Framework, posted on the .NET Blog.
Microsoft’s .NET Blog introduces a new cross-platform billing sample that demonstrates how to implement in-app purchases in .NET MAUI apps for Android, iOS, Mac Catalyst, and Windows.
Microsoft’s Learn MCP server improves the Copilot developer experience by providing practical examples and clear integration steps for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, the Copilot CLI, and the Copilot Coding Agent.
The article announces networking improvements in .NET 10, highlighting updates across HTTP, WebSockets, security, and related areas to enhance performance, reliability, and the developer experience.
.NET Conf 2025 recap highlighting major announcements including .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026, AI features, community stories, and links to video recordings, slides, and demos so you can catch up on the event.
Microsoft announced a preview of open, modular Data Ingestion Building Blocks for .NET that help developers create scalable AI data pipelines with easy getting-started experiences, extensibility, and tight integration in the .NET ecosystem.
This post announces a new cross-platform .NET MAUI sample that demonstrates how to implement age verification across Android, iOS, and Windows by integrating platform-specific APIs (Google Play Age Signals, Apple Declared Age Range, and Windows Age Consent). It provides guidance and a ready-made sample to help developers add compliant age checks to their apps.
A live event on December 9 will showcase practical approaches to modernize .NET applications using Azure, AI, and agentic tooling. The announcement was posted on the .NET Blog.
The article describes how the .NET team replaced a complex distributed build system with a Unified Build approach. This change significantly simplified the build pipeline, cut build times, and made shipping .NET releases more flexible and predictable.
GitHub Copilot Testing for .NET is now available in Visual Studio, allowing developers to automatically generate, build, and run high-quality unit tests across files, projects, or entire solutions to boost test coverage and speed up the testing workflow.
This .NET Blog post shows a step-by-step workflow using Visual Studio 2026 and GitHub Copilot agent mode to modernize .NET applications by upgrading .NET versions and frameworks, resolving build issues, and migrating apps to Azure with reduced manual effort.
A brief announcement on the .NET Blog describing new post-quantum cryptography (PQC) support in .NET. The post outlines what was added for PQC and explains the development path and decisions that led to those additions.
The blog post announces F# 10, highlighting new language features, performance improvements, and tooling enhancements that ship with .NET 10.
Announcement post introducing C# 14 and its features; C# 14 ships as part of .NET 10 and the full post is on the .NET Blog.
Microsoft announced .NET 10, describing it as the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release to date, with platform-wide updates and new features across areas like ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, and Aspire.
A brief recap of the November 2025 servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework, published on the .NET Blog.
Microsoft explains how Copilot Studio uses .NET to run AI agents consistently across platforms and to bring performant, innovative agent execution to the web via WebAssembly.
Announcement: .NET Conf 2025 is scheduled for November 11–13, featuring .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026, with a Student Zone on November 14.
Microsoft announced two experimental custom agents for .NET developers — C# Expert and WinForms Expert — designed to help produce better code when used with GitHub Copilot. The agents are tailored to C# and WinForms development and were introduced on the .NET Blog.
The .NET Blog announces a new Sponsorship feature on NuGet.org designed to help users recognize and support package maintainers and to strengthen the NuGet community.
This DevBlogs post provides a step-by-step guide to upgrading a .NET AI chat app to the Microsoft Agent Framework to improve architecture, enable better tool integration, and add intelligent reasoning features.
A brief recap announcing the October 2025 servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework. The post on the .NET Blog summarizes the latest fixes and directs readers to the official release information.
Microsoft announced .NET 10 Release Candidate 2, emphasizing final quality, reliability, and stabilization across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and related components.
Microsoft announced the .NET Security Group, a program that gives partners early access to CVE information and coordinates delivery of .NET security patches so distributors can ship fixes at the same time as Microsoft.
The .NET 10 Garbage Collector introduces DATAS, a new adaptive mechanism that adjusts heap size automatically. The article explains how DATAS behavior differs from the previous Server GC, and gives guidance on when to tune GC settings or disable DATAS depending on your application’s workload and performance goals.
Practical guidance for reviewing AI-generated .NET code, emphasizing that AI output should be treated as a starting point and validated through tests, linters, security checks, and clear team processes to maintain quality and productivity.
Microsoft announced the Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview), a unified solution for creating, orchestrating, hosting, and observing AI agents in the .NET ecosystem to help developers ship production AI agents faster.
Microsoft’s .NET Blog post explains Google Play’s new 16 KB page size requirement and provides guidance to help .NET MAUI apps become compliant before the November 2025 deadline.
Aspire 9.5 introduces a preview ‘aspire update’ command, single-file AppHost support, improved CLI and dashboard UX, and new integrations for AI, DevTunnels, and other tooling.
A .NET Blog post that demonstrates how to generate images from natural-language prompts using the universal abstractions provided by Microsoft’s extensions for .NET AI, exploring text-to-image capabilities in .NET.
Microsoft announced Trusted Publishing on NuGet.org, a new, safer way to publish packages that uses short-lived tokens instead of long-lived API keys to enhance security.
A .NET Blog post explaining how GitHub Copilot’s prompt files and instruction files help .NET developers guide and standardize AI-assisted code generation to improve productivity and consistency.
Microsoft announced on the .NET Blog that .NET STS (short-term support) releases will be supported for 24 months.
Application Insights Code Optimizations for .NET Apps helps .NET developers detect performance bottlenecks and receive AI-driven code improvement suggestions via GitHub Copilot integration, streamlining diagnostics and optimizations within the .NET ecosystem.
A blog post announcing and summarizing hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10, offering a guided tour of enhancements across the platform to make apps faster, more memory-efficient, and more responsive.
.NET 10 Release Candidate 1 is now available, bringing improvements across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more.
This is a short recap announcing the September 2025 servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework. The post summarizes the latest patches and maintenance updates and directs readers to the .NET Blog for full details and download guidance.
The .NET Blog post demonstrates how the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent automates repetitive developer tasks—like generating unit tests and implementing features from a PRD—using a real .NET sample, enabling developers to concentrate on design and code review.
The Aspire CLI is a new tool for configuring and running applications. This article introduces how to get started with it.
EFCore.Visualizer is a Visual Studio extension that lets developers visualize and analyze Entity Framework Core query execution plans directly inside the IDE.