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.

Kestrel's HTTP/1.1 request parser in .NET 11 replaces BadHttpRequestException with a result struct, cutting malformed-request overhead by up to 40%.

Microsoft Agent Framework hits 1.0 with stable APIs, multi-provider connectors, multi-agent orchestration, and A2A/MCP interop. Here is what it looks like in practice on .NET 10.

Runtime Async in .NET 11 moves async/await handling from compiler-generated state machines into the runtime itself, producing readable stack traces, correct breakpoints, and fewer heap allocations.

A new project template in .NET 11 Preview 2 scaffolds the JS plumbing, WebWorkerClient, and JSExport boilerplate needed to run .NET code in a browser Web Worker.

Microsoft's free generative AI course for .NET developers ships Version 2, rebuilt for .NET 10 and migrated from Semantic Kernel to Microsoft.Extensions.AI's IChatClient pattern.

The .NET team shares ten months of real data on running GitHub's Copilot Coding Agent in dotnet/runtime: 878 PRs, a 67.9% merge rate, and clear lessons on where AI-assisted development helps and where it still falls short.

C# 14 introduces extension members, allowing you to add extension properties, operators, and static members to existing types using the new extension keyword.