Microsoft Introduces dotnetup: A Toolchain Manager for .NET
Microsoft has released a public preview of dotnetup, a user-local toolchain manager designed to simplify .NET SDK and runtime management on macOS and Linux.
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Microsoft Introduces New Blazor AI Components for Building Agentic UI in .NET 11
Microsoft has released experimental Blazor AI components designed to help developers integrate agentic experiences directly into their web applications.
Read more →Microsoft Introduces run-assert-eval for AI Agent Risk Management
Microsoft has released run-assert-eval, a new skill designed to automate risk discovery, policy generation, and evaluation for AI agents.
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Microsoft Open-Sources ThinkingBox to Benchmark AI Agent Side Effects
Microsoft has released ThinkingBox, an open-source evaluation framework that verifies AI agents by inspecting tool side effects rather than transcripts.
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Microsoft Ships .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 with Go-Live License
Microsoft has released .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 with a go-live support license, bringing updates to runtimes, SDK tools, C#, and ASP.NET Core.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Aspire 13.5 with Dashboard Refresh and Live Terminals
.NET Aspire 13.5 introduces a dashboard refresh, interactive terminal sessions, file import commands, and expanded Kubernetes and Azure deployment options.
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Microsoft Introduces Open-Source Agent for Polyglot Unit Test Generation
Microsoft has released an open-source testing agent that researches repositories to generate, build, and validate unit tests across multiple programming languages.
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Meet Agent Plugins: A New Open Standard That Unifies Agent Skills and MCP Servers in a Shared Format
Industry leaders have launched Agent Plugins 1.0.0, a vendor-neutral standard for packaging portable AI agent components like skills and MCP servers.
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Microsoft Announces v2.0 of Official MCP C# SDK: Stateless by Default & Interactive via MRTR
Microsoft has released version 2.0 of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) C# SDK, implementing a stateless-first architecture and standardized HTTP headers.
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