.NET 10 RC2: Performance Boosts and Tooling Updates

Uno Platform’s .NET 10 Playtest Uno 6.3 ships with .NET 10 RC1 support and VS 2026 readiness → a clear signal that Microsoft’s ecosystem shifts demand early cross-platform UI adaptation. We’re standardizing on .NET 9 for production builds but greenlighting .NET 10 RC1 for pilot projects. Key metrics: 30-day stability tracking and WebAssembly decode times < 150ms (offloaded to WebWorkers). The TabView upgrades? Mandatory for our dashboard refactor. Size-to-content tabs ship next sprint. Which IDE transition strategy would you test first? #DotNET #CrossPlatform #CTOInsights #UnoPlatform #DevTools

AI agents can write code, but they rarely check their own work. With the Chrome DevTools MCP Server, goose can now see what's happening in the browser and verify its own fixes.

.NET 10 is the next LTS release, shipping this month - November. Are you ready for it? New C# 14 features simplify library design. Runtime updates. And improvements in JSON handling. We’re weeks away from the official release of .NET 10 LTS, and this one is packed with meaningful improvements. To name a few: 🔹 C# 14 adds field-backed properties, generic nameof, and extension blocks — cleaner encapsulation and extensibility. 🔹 Runtime gains through AVX 10.2 support, small array stack allocation, and JIT optimizations. 🔹 System.Text.Json introduces duplicate property detection and faster streaming via PipeReader. Start planning your migration playbook — dependency upgrades, CI/CD adjustments, and testing strategies — before it hits this month. .NET 10 feels like the culmination of Microsoft’s last three years of cloud-first optimization. Which feature are you most eager to test? #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #TechTip #CSharp #DotNet

📣Big news: Uno Platform is officially teaming up with Microsoft. First up with .NET 10 RC2 - partnering with .NET MAUI to keep .NET for Android aligned with Android 16. Next: co-maintain SkiaSharp, enable WASM multithreading, plus lots more! #dotnet https://hubs.li/Q03NWlKK0

📣 Microsoft Entra Syncable Passkeys has JUST launched in Public Preview (iCloud, 1Password, etc) Just in time for FIDO's Passkey week 🤣 Steps in comments on how to enable and test. Passkeyhelper.com will be updated shortly to support syncable passkeys

Microsoft released .NET 10 RC2 with go-live support and final stabilization updates, highlighting collaboration with Uno Platform to align .NET MAUI with Android 16 and extend cross-platform support ahead of general availability. Learn more today: https://lnkd.in/ebVu7VVH #DotNet10 #UnoPlatform #SoftwareDevelopment #TechInnovation

Is that something you experienced ? 1. Outbox Processor reads message from database ✅ 2. Publishes to Service Bus ✅ 3. Processor crashes before marking as processed ❌ 4. On restart, processes same message again ➡️ Duplicate! Idempotency means that performing an operation multiple times produces the same result as performing it once. It's an important concept that we need to mastering while working in distributed system. CorrelationId or whatever how you name it, is a precious weapon to ensure idempotency. [Read more about it in my blog] How do you handle idempotency? #microsoft #dotnet #idempotency #distributedsystem #softwareengineer #learning

Microsoft is enhancing Edge’s autofill in version 142 (Beta), prompting users to choose whether to save addresses, reducing unwanted entries via a controlled rollout. The browser is migrating components to WebUI 2, including the PDF viewer, yielding major performance gains, with load times cut by 40% across multiple features. You can try the update in the Edge Beta; availability may vary as the feature rolls out gradually.

If you think bigger context windows automatically make models smarter, you are wrong. Models can accept millions of tokens, but they stop reasoning long before the limit. Performance falls off sharply as context grows and the middle of the window becomes meaningless. Working on large projects with mixed formats such as code, docs, PDFs, and images makes this worse. Fill the context window with noisy chunks, and you get context rot: more hallucinations, more instability, and worse answers even from big models. The issue is not token capacity. The issue is relevance, selection, and maintaining reasoning over long states. The good news is this is solvable. If the context is curated and the retrieval is precise, you can get fast, reliable outputs even with small models under 32B and generate high-quality tokens per second. That means a cheaper stack, a private stack, and outputs that engineers can actually trust. This is what Bytebell does. We stitch code, docs, and conversations into a version-aware context graph so the model sees only what matters and reasoning stays sharp. If you are tired of bloated prompts and bad answers, bring us a repo, a doc, or a PDF. We will show you in 15 minutes how much cleaner answers look and how much faster your team ships. DM me to schedule a demo or drop a comment, and I will reach out. Original post here https://lnkd.in/gA5u6ids

🚀 Excited to share a new Microsoft Learn plan I created for our local developer community, the Computer Society Of Kirinyaga, inspired by .NET Conf 2025! Whether you're just starting with C# or diving into ASP.NET Core and Minimal APIs, this curated learning path will help you build modern, scalable apps with .NET 10.  Explore the plan, grow your skills, and join the movement toward smarter development check it out: https://lnkd.in/dB7bqJar  #.NETconf2025 #MicrosoftLearn #CSharp #ASPNetCore #MinimalAPI #CommunityDriven