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The .NET 11 RC1 Upgrade Checklist: Test the Contract Before GA

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.NET & AI

Sep 10, 2026

The .NET 11 RC1 Upgrade Checklist: Test the Contract Before GA

Microsoft’s .NET 11 RC1 is go-live supported. Here’s the focused upgrade gate for SDK pinning, tests, SignalR, OpenAPI, numerical behavior, and shipping artifacts.

Visual Studio’s Profiler Finds the Process—Not the Hidden Wait

A new Visual Studio case study shows how a distributed .NET app hid 9–12 seconds of avoidable streaming delay—and why CPU profiles need a timer beside them.

Uno’s Two MCP Servers Give .NET Agents Context and a Reality Check

Uno Platform’s latest .NET tooling separates a stateless documentation server from a stateful app bridge, giving AI agents both current guidance and evidence from the running UI.

Visual Studio 2026 Makes Solution-Scoped Settings a Team Tool

Visual Studio 2026 can scope IDE settings to a solution, store them beside the solution, and turn a simple color cue into a practical safety habit for .NET teams.

MSTest 4.4 Makes Native AOT Testing a Release Gate for .NET

MSTest 4.4 turns Native AOT test execution from an experiment into a practical CI lane, with source generation, trimming-aware discovery, and a parity check that can catch tests the native binary cannot see.

The .NET 11 Preview 7 Changes That Matter Before RC1

Preview 7 makes the .NET inner loop faster and more controllable, from NativeAOT CLI startup and warm MSBuild state to test-run policies and C# 15 preview refinements.

MCP C# SDK 2.2 Makes Stateless HTTP Practical for ASP.NET Core

The official MCP C# SDK’s 2.x line turns remote tool servers into ordinary ASP.NET Core HTTP workloads. Here is what stateless transport, hybrid compatibility, and multi-round-trip requests change for production teams.

LUMI-AI Is More Than a Faster Supercomputer: What Its Design Reveals

Europe's next LUMI system combines scientific precision, AI throughput, multi-tenant APIs, tiered storage, and heat reuse. Its architecture offers practical lessons far beyond supercomputing.

The Tech War Behind OpenAI’s Decision to Cut Cursor Off

OpenAI’s planned model cutoff for SpaceX-owned Cursor is a contract dispute with a wider lesson: AI tooling is becoming a strategic fight over distribution, trust, and developer workflow portability.

Debian Chose Accountability, Not an AI Ban: What Contributors Should Know

Debian now permits responsible AI-assisted contributions while keeping human submitters accountable for quality, licensing, privacy, and project impact.

AWS Is Buying DuckLabs, Not DuckDB: What Developers Should Watch

AWS is acquiring the DuckLabs company and engineering team, while DuckDB remains MIT licensed under its independent foundation. Here is what changes, what does not, and what developers should monitor.

When AnyDesk Wouldn't Open: Debugging Session Identity, Audio, and Headless Linux

A practical postmortem of an AnyDesk GUI that was installed and running but failed under a headless Ubuntu/XFCE setup—and the session, audio, and idle-lock fixes that made it reliable.

GLM-5.3-Flash Arrives: A 320B Model with an 18B Active Core

Z.ai has released GLM-5.3-Flash, a native multimodal model that targets frontier coding and agentic performance with a sparse-and-linear attention design, a 1M-token context window, and a much lower serving cost.

When Retries Become the Outage: Lessons from GitHub’s August 17 Incident

GitHub’s August 17 outage shows why retries need budgets, backoff, and an escape hatch—especially when bots, CI systems, and AI agents all react at once.

Kimi K3 Unveiled: Next-Gen Reasoning, Massive Context, and Agentic Intelligence

An in-depth analysis of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model — examining its advanced long-context architecture, deep multi-step reasoning performance, dynamic planning capabilities, and impact on modern AI application development.

WebAssembly (Wasm) Takes Serverless by Storm: Boosting Performance and Expanding Use Cases

Discover how WebAssembly is revolutionizing serverless computing, delivering near-native performance, unlocking new languages, and expanding the possibilities for cloud-native applications.

The State of the Developer Ecosystem 2024: A Comprehensive Analysis

An in-depth analysis of the programming world, examining the tools, languages, and technologies developers use today.

Sending Emails From Azure Logic Apps Service Bus

Learn how to send emails from Azure Logic Apps triggered by Azure Service Bus messages.

Performance Optimization Techniques in Python

A comprehensive guide to performance optimization techniques in Python for beginners and advanced users.

Llama 4 Maverick: The Next Evolution in Open-Weight AI Models

Explore the capabilities, advantages, and limitations of Llama 4 Maverick, Meta's latest multimodal AI model, and its comparison with other state-of-the-art models.

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