ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 2 brings TempData to Blazor static server-side rendering, enabling flash messages and Post-Redirect-Get flows without workarounds.

C# 15 adds the with(...) element to collection expressions, letting you pass capacity, comparers, and other constructor arguments directly in the initializer.

.NET 11 Preview 1 ships ZstandardStream, ZstandardEncoder, and ZstandardDecoder in System.IO.Compression, giving you fast, inbox zstd support with no third-party packages.

The dotnet ef database update command now accepts --add to scaffold and apply a migration in a single step. Here is how it works, why it matters for containers and .NET Aspire, and what to watch for.

EF Core 11 Preview 2 supports SQL Server 2025 VECTOR_SEARCH() and DiskANN vector indexes directly from LINQ. Here is how to set up the index, run approximate queries, and what changes from the EF Core 10 VectorDistance approach.

Fluorite is an open-source 3D game engine that embeds Google Filament rendering inside Flutter widgets and lets you write game logic in Dart.

Rider 2026.1 adds a .NET Disassembler plugin that lets you inspect machine code generated by the JIT, ReadyToRun, and NativeAOT compilers without leaving the IDE.

ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 2 adds OpenTelemetry semantic attributes directly to HTTP server activity, removing the need for OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNetCore.

JetBrains shipped ReSharper as a VS Code extension with full C# analysis, refactoring, and unit testing. It works in Cursor and Google Antigravity too, and costs nothing for OSS and learning.

C# 15 introduces the union keyword for type unions with exhaustive pattern matching and implicit conversions. Available now in .NET 11 Preview 2.