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Microsoft has released the second preview version for .NET 11.0, bringing, among other things, innovations for asynchronous programming. Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg is Chief Technology Expert at ...

Microsoft updates its reference WinUI 3 sample app with taskbar integration, clipboard samples, and quality-of-life fixes.

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Microsoft updated its Windows App Development CLI (winapp) to version 0.2 and added some eagerly anticipated new features.

The next major release, .NET 11, should arrive in November 2026, and the project recently unveiled its first public preview. Like earlier first looks, it’s nowhere near feature complete, with several ...

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