Visual Studio 2026 will go GA today 🥳 - and it has a LOT of great new features. One of them is built-in support for Mermaid diagrams for database schemas and more - I give an intro in the new episode of the "Visual Studio Toolbox" show #mermaidjs #visualstudio

.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser, powered by Avalonia. After years of community requests, we are delivering: – Linux desktop – WebAssembly – up to 2× faster performance on macOS Try the live demo and register your interest for early access: avaloniaui.net/blog/net-ma...

🎤 Meet one of our VISUG XL 2025 speakers: 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞! We’re excited to welcome 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐬 this year at Visug XL, our yearly, free, community-driven .NET conference. 📅 November 28, 2025 📍 UCLL Leuven 👉 More information and tickets: www.visug.be/Events/102 #VisugXL #DotNet #Community #Conference

First: I am really proud of this blog post title. It’s for the girlies (IYKYK). Second: .NET 10 drops tomorrow, so I did a whirlwind tour of the big and small features I worked on this cycle. Third: go read it! #dotnet #aspnetcore 📰 :https://blog.safia.rocks/2025/11/10/aspnetcore-ten/

Aspire 13 new dashboard features, day 4: Aspire is going polyglot with strong support for JavaScript ☕ and Python 🐍 apps. The dashboard features new programming language resource icons.

🎤 Meet one of our VISUG XL 2025 speakers: 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞! We’re excited to welcome 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐧 this year at Visug XL, our yearly, free, community-driven .NET conference. 📅 November 28, 2025 📍 UCLL Leuven 👉 More information and tickets: www.visug.be/Events/102 #VisugXL #DotNet #Community #Conference

Tickets for VisugXL by @visug.bsky.social are selling fast! Get yours while you still can! It's free, community driven, in Leuven on November 28th. Speakers include @codewithanjuli.bsky.social @techmike2kx.bsky.social @jfversluis.dev and more! Tickets & agenda: www.visug.be/Events/102

We’re teaming up with Google’s Flutter team to bring Impeller to .NET Impeller is Flutters new GPU-optimised renderer, replacing Skia for better performance on mobile and embedded devices. This is what open collaboration looks like 🚀 avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...

.NET Conf 2025 is almost here! Three days of coding magic, live demos, and insider tips from the experts who build .NET. Mark your calendar, grab your virtual seat, and let’s code together. Here's what you need to know: msft.it/63321tyMAP #dotNETConf

Today’s post is a deep dive into how `aspire deploy` evolved from a simple callback to a full pipeline engine that models build and deployment orchestration in code. 🔗 : A peek at the future of distributed app orchestration: blog.safia.rocks/2025/11/03/a... #aspire @aspire.dev

🎤 Meet one of our VISUG XL 2025 speakers: 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐞𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐬! We’re excited to welcome 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐞𝐲 this year at Visug XL, our yearly, free, community-driven .NET conference. 📅 November 28, 2025 📍 UCLL Leuven 👉 More information and tickets: www.visug.be/Events/102 #VisugXL #DotNet #Community #Conference

Big things are coming—.NET Conf 2025 is almost here! - Join the C# design team as they reveal the exciting new features coming in C# 14 and beyond. - Discover language enhancements that improve code clarity and boost productivity. Save the date: msft.it/63326tDLJ0 #dotNETConf

💫 Welcome to Aspire: Your stack, streamlined devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspir...

Happy Halloween to those who celebrate, my wife and I just came back from our costumed Crossfit workout #HappyHalloween

Announcing Azure MCP Server 1.0.0 Stable Release – A New Era for Agentic Workflows buff.ly/LsyJsTD #azure #ai #cloud #mcp #aiagents #mcpserver

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

.NET Aspire ❌ Aspire ✅🤌🏼 we're officially rebranding - starting with our shiny new website, aspire.dev 💫 join us for a special edition #AspiriFriday to wrap up the week and celebrate with the team! see you there 🎃

A starter pack If you're looking to follow folks from Microsoft's Core AI Developer Division. go.bsky.app/JuyrK9N

.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 is now available! ✅ Final RC before GA ✅ Includes go-live support license → ready for production use ✅ Supported in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders + VS Code with C# Dev Kit Help us validate the final bits before GA. Learn more, msft.it/63327s7ZQB

This is really good! I had no idea how much I needed to hear this (and now I want to watch "Linkin Park Demon Hunters") www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcds...

y’all are missing out. What a great conference azuredevsummit.com

🚨 The CfP for #DaprDay is closing in two days! Submit your sessions now at sessionize.com/dapr-day-2025/

Sky’s the limit for your social strategy: Bluesky is now in Hootsuite. Whether you are new to the platform or well seasoned, Hootsuite is the tool to help you unlock your potential on Bluesky. Schedule, publish, and track your Bluesky posts without leaving Hootsuite. Try it today 💙

Live stream heard it first - #aspire extension for #vscode now in prerelease!!! it is SUPER EARLY so please share your feedback! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

🚀 .NET Aspire 9.5 just dropped! My fav features: ✨ Aspire Update ✨ Single file AppHost support ✨ Dashboard improvements for GenAI traces Loving the focus on dev experience + observability 🙌 #dotnet #Aspire

Last Tuesday, Visug delivered again! 🤩 Great .NET talks, engaging discussions & plenty of pizza 🍕 Thanks to the speakers and attendees for another amazing evening! 👉 Upcoming events: www.visug.be/events #VISUG #dotnet #Community

Hey #dotnet friends! 🚀 Swetugg Stockholm 2026 just opened its CFP! Got a story, a war-story, or some shiny code magic to share? The stage is waiting for you 🙌 👉 sessionize.com/swetugg-stoc... #Swetugg #CFP #csharp

The CfP for #DaprDay is closing in one week! Submit your sessions now at sessionize.com/dapr-day-2025/ #CNCF

Mermaid chart rendering! Nicely done `Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 September Update`

Steadily growing @aspire.dev youtube.com/@aspiredotdev Follow for notifications on AspiriFridays *and* more coming soon! #aspire

The NDC London 2026 agenda has been released 🇬🇧 Don't miss out on 100+ sessions, 90+ Speakers and 14 hands-on workshops. Secure your Early Bird tickets at ndclondon.com #ndclondon

.NET STS releases are now supported for 2 years instead of 18 months starting with .NET 9 (the current STS). STS releases now go out-of-support on the same day as the previous LTS release. Upgrading to an STS release will no longer cause you to lose support! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotne...

CVE-2025-9708: Kubernetes C# Client: improper certificate validation in custom CA mode may lead to man-in-the-middle attacks -

Last night we got together to select sessions for the upcoming #VisugXL event. Many great submissions, but only a few slots... tough choices were made! 🎤 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧! 🎟️ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰: www.visug.be/Events/102

I wrote some more thoughts around deployment support in Aspire and the Pandora's box you open when you start thinking about the utility/gaps in Aspire's "execution mode" concept. TL;DR: even the most innocent API design choices come back to bite 😭 blog.safia.rocks/2025/09/15/a... #aspire

In little over a week, Visug is back after our summer break! ☀️ Join us on Sept 23 in Antwerp for: - Give your .NET apps a bit of bite with the critter stack - A developer’s guide to .NET reverse engineering Learning, networking & food included. 👉 Sign up: www.visug.be/Events/103

To all the builders, creators, and problem-solvers: Happy #ProgrammersDay! 🎉

There are folk out there using .NET who never had to think about the Global Assembly Cache. In some ways nature is healing.

Announcing Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Release! A new era for devs: AI-first workflows, lightning-fast performance, and modern design. Install it next to VS2022 and migrate your settings with ease. 👉 Learn more in this blog and then be sure to download the preview: msft.it/63326sirKp

New #VisualStudio major version incoming! The preview is already much more performant than 2022 ever was! devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

Heading to the airport for @ndcconferences.com Copenhagen! That speaker lineup is just one big gathering of friends, I love it! I'll be talking about application modernisation tomorrow at 11

🎤 Speakers and community rockstarts, last call! VISUG XL 2025 CFP closes THIS WEEKEND! VISUG XL is coming this November with a full day packed with .NET, cloud & software development goodness. 🚀 👉 Submit your session today: sessionize.com/visugxl-2025/

HttpClient is at the heart of many projects. DelegatingHandlers let you intercept and modify requests and responses, extending base functionality. In this blog post, we'll look at DelegatingHandler and how it can make HttpClient even more powerful! 💪 duende.link/78qe4kj #dotnet #aspnetcore

✏️ Back to school… and VISUG is back as well! Join us on Sept 23 in Antwerp for: - Give your .NET apps a bit of bite with the critter stack – Hannes Lowette - A developer’s guide to .NET reverse engineering – Dario De Backer Learning, networking & food included. 👉 Sign up: buff.ly/0taBPbq

Letting us have more control over how #Copilot appears in #visualstudio is excellent news! www.neowin.net/news/copilot...

Thank you volunteer translators! The brief #Chatcontrol piece has now been translated into German, French, Catalan, Castilian, Italian, Czech, Esperanto (!), Dutch, Bulgarian, Danish and Romanian! berthub.eu/articles/pos...

The Aspire team is cooking up a new (All) option for the console logs page. Want everything at once? (All) gives you all resource logs in one view 🚀 #dotnet #aspire

Aspire is at version 9.4.1 now. That's the only supported version. If you're using an older version, update now. You must update to the latest version to be in support & get the awesome new features. What are you waiting for? learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspir... #dotnet

.NET 10 Preview 7 is now available! Here are all the resources you need to take advantage of the new release, specifically for your dev environment. 📖 msft.it/63328sRj5Q

.NET Aspire makes working with Dapr 1000% more comfortable