Visual Studio Blog: Pick, manage, and get the most from your models https://t.co/XoWQOoe3A6 You open the model picker, scroll past a dozen options, and pause. How are these models different? Which one should you actually use? And once you’re a few hundred messages deep, how mu…

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.NET Blog: .NET and .NET Framework July 2026 servicing releases updates https://t.co/TKN9OrR3sf Welcome to our combined .NET servicing updates for July 2026. Let’s get into the latest release of .NET & .NET Framework, here is a quick overview of what’s new in our servicing rel…

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.NET Blog: CoreCLR Progress and the Mono Timeline for .NET MAUI https://t.co/sikMqkQlRW A few months ago I shared that .NET MAUI moves to CoreCLR in .NET 11, making CoreCLR the default runtime for your Android, iOS, and Mac Catalyst apps. That was Preview 4 and we have been he…

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.NET Blog: .NET 11 Preview 6 is now available! https://t.co/13LQoh3F0k Today, we are excited to announce the sixth preview release of .NET 11! This release includes improvements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, https://t.co/H2pTCh2keY Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framew…

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Visual Studio Blog: Built-in Agent Skills Bring .NET and Azure Expertise into Visual Studio https://t.co/vpSE5EWDqh Visual Studio now includes built-in Agent Skills, created by experts from the .NET and Azure teams, to help you better customize your agentic workflow and comple…

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Visual Studio Blog: The Visual Studio Dev/Test Benefit: Freedom to Build, Test, and Experiment in Azure https://t.co/4ORxPGotL6 One of the best parts of a Visual Studio Subscription is discovering benefits that can make your day-to-day development work easier and more cost ef…

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.NET Blog: Modernize .NET applications in the GitHub Copilot app https://t.co/EfqVqtXmfy Upgrading a .NET application isn’t a single prompt. Every upgrade begins with understanding your application, evaluating dependencies, planning the work, applying code transformations, fi…

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Visual Studio Blog: Visual Studio June Update – Track Your Usage, Trust Your Tools https://t.co/3oLPuyWNlB Visual Studio works best when you can see what’s happening and trust the tools you’ve added to your workflow. The June update is built around both. The Copilot Usage wind…

— Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg (@DOTNETDOKTOR) Jul 1, 2026

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.NET Blog: MCP Beyond the Chat Window: Build Diagnostics in CI https://t.co/33OeTDDZ3n In a previous post we introduced the Microsoft Binlog MCP Server and showed how an AI assistant can investigate MSBuild binary logs through natural language. Picture the payoff in CI: a pull…

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.NET Blog: .NET 8 and .NET 9 will reach End of Support on November 10, 2026 https://t.co/nJbm3Jkapu .NET 8 and .NET 9 will reach end of support on November 10, 2026. After that date, Microsoft will no longer provide servicing updates, security fixes, or technical support for t…

— Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg (@DOTNETDOKTOR) Jun 29, 2026

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.NET Blog: SkiaSharp 4.0 is here: announcing the first stable release https://t.co/nPcMQ8n0mQ SkiaSharp has been the backbone of cross-platform 2D graphics in .NET for over a decade. It powers pixel-perfect text, geometry, and image rendering across mobile, desktop, web, and s…

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.NET Blog: Packaging and Package Identity for .NET apps with WinApp CLI on Windows https://t.co/iBHaFv5vX1 Package identity has often been a pain point for developers looking to build apps that integrate with Windows APIs. Many modern Windows features, like push notifications …

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Visual Studio Blog: Automating your Visual Studio extension builds with GitHub Actions https://t.co/xDHXHH1Rnp If you’re building and maintaining Visual Studio extensions, you’ve probably ended up with some sort of build and publishing workflow – whether it’s manual, scripted,…

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.NET Blog: AI-Powered MSBuild Investigation with the Microsoft Binlog MCP Server https://t.co/HHDegjfjp6 MSBuild binary logs (.binlog files) contain a wealth of information about your build — every property evaluation, target execution, task invocation, error, and warning. But…

— Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg (@DOTNETDOKTOR) Jun 17, 2026

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Fachveröffentlichung: Hinweispflichtig: Parameter Sniffing und Query Hints beim Microsoft SQL Server https://t.co/aQ5UNLVh6A Parameter Sniffing ist ein verbreitetes Phänomen im Microsoft SQL Server, das sich unmittelbar auf die Performance von Abfragen auswirken kann.

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Fachveröffentlichung: Objekte flicken: JSON PATCH für Systen.Text.Json https://t.co/ohaiqOSEkf Microsofts JSON-Bibliothek kann nun auch JSON-Patch-Dokumente anwenden.

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Visual Studio Blog: Make Visual Studio look the way you want https://t.co/goCGsurmoF Themes are personal. Some of us live in dark mode, some swear by high contrast, and some of us have very strong opinions about that one shade of blue from years ago. The new themes in Visual S…

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Fachveröffentlichung: .NET 11.0 Preview 5 vereinfacht das statische serverseitige Rendering in Blazor https://t.co/yf9TvwOJYg Die Preview verbessert das Blazor Static Server Side Rendering. In C# 15.0 lassen sich Klassen nun von der Vererbung in anderen Assemblies ausschließen.

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Visual Studio Blog: Review pull requests without leaving Visual Studio https://t.co/avTsqWmSg7 Pull request integration in Visual Studio has been one of the most requested Git features. Developers have been asking for a way to open a PR, inspect the changes, discuss feedback, …

— Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg (@DOTNETDOKTOR) Jun 11, 2026

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Fachveröffentlichung: .NET 11.0 Update (PDF) https://t.co/vixMiLrPx1 Dieses kompakte .NET 11.0-Buch ist DAS Umsteigerbuch für Entwicklerinnen und Entwickler, die bisher mit .NET 10.0 gearbeitet haben. Es zeigt systematisch und anhand von vielen praktischen Programmcodebeispiele…

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