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Guest blog post on building a real time assistant using OpenAI Realtime API using .NET, F#, Microsoft.Extensions.AI and .NET MAUI.

March 17, 2026

RT.Assistant: A Multi-Agent Voice Bot Using .NET and OpenAI

Faisal Waris

See how the modernize-dotnet agent helps you assess apps, create upgrade plans, and modernize .NET projects from Visual Studio, VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and GitHub.

March 12, 2026

Modernize .NET Anywhere with GitHub Copilot

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Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 2 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more!

March 10, 2026

.NET 11 Preview 2 is now available!

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ASP.NET Community Standup: Zstandard compression comes to .NET 11

Zstandard (zstd) is a modern, high-performance compression algorithm that's faster than gzip and brotli while achieving comparable compression ratios. In .NET 11, we're adding first-class Zstandard support across the platform — from low-level primitives in System.IO.Compression to built-in HTTP compression in ASP.NET Core. Join us as Radek Zikmund, Software Engineer on the .NET libraries team, walks us through the new APIs and shows off some impressive benchmarks.

Visual Studio Toolbox Live: Visual Studio 2026 March Release Party

Join members of the Visual Studio team to talk about what's new in the Visual Studio 2026 March Release.

.NET AI Community Standup: Real-World AI Agent Architecture in .NET

What does a real AI agent application look like beyond Hello World? Using the open-source Interview Coach sample, we’ll explore production patterns for building multi-agent systems in .NET using: - Microsoft Agent Framework - Microsoft Foundry as the model backend - Model Context Protocol (MCP) for tool integration - Aspire for orchestration and observability

ASP.NET Core & Blazor updates in .NET 11 Preview 2

Join us to check out all the new features and improvements coming to ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 11 Preview 2.

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