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AI agents are quickly becoming part of the .NET developer workflow — and this week’s ecosystem updates make that very clear. Issue #24 of The .NET Insider covers: • .NET 11 Preview 4 • Visual Studio Plan Agent & Agent Skills • C# memory safety improvements • .NET MAUI moving to CoreCLR • Aspire 13.3 • Durable workflows in Microsoft Agent Framework • NuGet package pruning in .NET 10 • Clean Architecture, Claude Code workflows, and more If you want to stay updated with the future of .NET, cloud-native development, and AI-assisted engineering, this issue is packed with important reads. 🌐Read Online: https://lnkd.in/daQncPmx

.𝗡𝗘𝗧 𝗔𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 13.3 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱-𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 .𝗡𝗘𝗧 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. This release brings updates across orchestration, integrations, deployment workflows, and developer experience — making it even easier to build and manage distributed applications with .NET. If you're working with microservices, containers, observability, or AI-powered apps in .NET, Aspire keeps evolving into one of the most important parts of the ecosystem. 🖋️Maddy Montaquila 🔗Read more: https://lnkd.in/dB_jJSbb 👉Follow https://dotnet.news for more .NET updates

AI coding assistants are getting a lot smarter — but planning still matters! Microsoft just introduced the new Plan Agent in Microsoft Visual Studio, focused on helping developers design implementation plans before generating code changes. Instead of instantly modifying files, the agent: • analyzes your codebase • asks clarifying questions • creates structured implementation plans • stores them as markdown files for review and collaboration This is especially valuable for larger refactors, architecture changes, authentication flows, and multi-project tasks where jumping straight into AI-generated code can become messy fast. Feels like a big step toward more structured AI-assisted software engineering inside Visual Studio. 🖊Rachel Kang 🌐Read more: https://lnkd.in/daVwRakv ✨️Follow https://dotnet.news for more updates #dotnet #visualstudio

🛡️ 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗖# Microsoft shared new work focused on improving memory safety in C# and the broader .NET ecosystem, helping developers build safer and more reliable applications without sacrificing performance. As modern applications increasingly rely on native interop, spans, unsafe code, and performance-critical workloads, memory safety continues becoming a major focus across the industry. A very interesting direction for the future of C# and .NET development. 🔗Read more: https://lnkd.in/dvAWKYZq 📰Richard Lander 👉Follow https://dotnet.news for more .NET updates and developer news.

🤖 Agent Skills are coming to Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft introduced Agent Skills in Visual Studio — a new capability designed to help AI agents interact more effectively with development workflows and tools inside the IDE. The announcement highlights how developers can extend and customize agent capabilities, enabling AI-powered workflows for coding, automation, project understanding, and developer productivity scenarios. As AI-native development continues evolving, this is another important step toward deeper agent integration directly inside the .NET and Visual Studio ecosystem. 🔗Read more: https://lnkd.in/diPxhXUB Follow https://dotnet.news for more .NET and AI development updates. #dotnet #visualstudio

🚀 .NET 11 Preview 4 is here! This preview brings improvements across the entire .NET ecosystem — from runtime and performance optimizations to ASP.NET Core, Blazor, MAUI, and EF Core enhancements. Some highlights: • New Process API improvements • Better compression and JSON APIs • OpenTelemetry support for the .NET CLI • MCP Server template support in the SDK • ASP.NET Core OpenAPI enhancements • EF Core vector search improvements for SQL Server 2025 A solid preview with plenty of updates for backend, cloud, and AI-focused .NET developers. 🌐Read more: https://lnkd.in/daRF8F9N 👉Follow https://dotnet.news for more .NET updates, releases, and developer news. #dotnet #dotnetdevelopers

Issue #23 of The .NET Insider is here 🚀 This edition covers .NET security updates, Microsoft Agent Framework, Aspire enhancements, SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1, SignalR JWT authentication, EF Core performance insights, distributed caching with PostgreSQL & Azure, and more. A packed week for .NET developers building cloud-native and AI-powered applications. Subscribe to stay updated with the latest from the .NET ecosystem: https://dotnet.news #dotnet #dotnetdevelopers

𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 .𝗡𝗘𝗧 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 This article demonstrates how to build high-performance distributed caching solutions using .NET, PostgreSQL, and Azure services. It covers architectural patterns for scalable caching, persistence strategies, and integration with modern cloud-native .NET applications. The post highlights performance considerations and practical deployment approaches for distributed systems. 🌐Details - https://lnkd.in/e4yhQs-r 📝Jared Meade 📧Subscribe for updates - https://dotnet.news #dotnet #postgres

𝗩𝗦𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘁𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁.𝗝𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 Microsoft announced that VS Test is moving away from Newtonsoft.Json in favor of System.Text.Json. The change aims to reduce dependencies, improve performance, and align testing infrastructure with the modern .NET ecosystem. The post explains compatibility considerations, migration expectations, and what extension authors or custom integrations may need to update before the transition becomes permanent. 🌐Details - https://lnkd.in/emYe6Gpm McKenna Barlow 📧Subscribe for updates - https://dotnet.news #dotnet #dotnetdevelopers

Big updates for the Blazor community The release of Blazorise 2.1 brings a major step forward for modern .NET UI development, introducing full Material 3 support, a complete rewrite of AntDesign v6 integration, performance improvements, enhanced accessibility, and many new components and refinements across the framework. It’s great to see established .NET ecosystem projects continuing to evolve alongside the latest UI and developer experience trends while staying fully focused on Blazor developers. If you're building internal tools, enterprise dashboards, admin panels, or modern web apps with Blazor, this release is definitely worth exploring. The .NET ecosystem keeps getting stronger. 👏 check details - https://lnkd.in/d6BpPgs9 #dotnet #blazor #csharp #dotnetdevs