Welcome to our combined .NET servicing updates for October 2026. Let’s get into the latest release of .NET and .NET Framework. Here’s a quick overview of what’s new in our servicing releases: .NET has ...

NET 11 Release Candidate 2 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms.

Learn how the new dotnetup tool helps macOS and Linux developers install, manage, and update user-local .NET SDKs and runtimes.

Beginning with Insider Build 17093, we added a method for you to automatically configure certain functionality in WSL that will be applied every time you launch the subsystem. This includes automount ...

I noted last time that you are not allowed to ask std:: async for an immediate on-thread calculation. The C++ library designers probably chose not to support it because there’s no point: An immediate ...

This post was written by Rich Lander, a Program Manager on the .NET Framework Team. It was written for people who want to understand why mscorsvw.exe is running on their machines and want to know how ...

Installing two anti-malware programs on the same system is like hiring two different security companies to patrol your building. If they don’t know about each other, each is going to think the other ...

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Microsoft Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3.3.0. This release delivers three new built-in Windows resources, a new registry-backed adapter, ...

Windows hot-patching supports x86-32, x86-64, 64-bit ARM, and Itanium, but why not the other architctures like 32-bit ARM, MIPS, Alpha AXP, PowerPC, and SH-3? These architectures fall into two buckets ...

Agents are rapidly evolving beyond chat. The first generation of agents waited for a person to send a message. Today, organizations want agents that can monitor work, respond to business events, and ...