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Package pruning in .NET 10 removes platform-provided packages from your dependency graph. With transitive auditing enabled by default, projects with these defaults have 70% fewer transitive vulnerability reports compared to projects using the previous defaults.

May 18, 2026

NuGet Package Pruning: Cleaner Dependencies and Actionable Vulnerability Reports

Nikolche Kolev

May 13, 2026

Process API Improvements in .NET 11

Adam Sitnik

.NET MAUI apps on Android, iOS, and Mac Catalyst now run on CoreCLR by default in .NET 11, unifying the runtime across all of .NET.

May 13, 2026

.NET MAUI Moves to CoreCLR in .NET 11

David Ortinau

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On .NET Live: How Coding Standards Supercharge .NET Quality & Performance

Discuss coding standards from the 20th anniversary edition of my book. How to structure your projects for long-term maintainability. How to apply coding standards that actually improve productivity. Common pitfalls that quietly destroy code quality. How to write clearer, safer, and more performant code. How modern .NET features can simplify your architecture and reduce bugs.

Visual Studio 2026 May Release Party

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Blazor Community Standup: E2E Component Testing for Blazor

Join us for a first look at a new end-to-end testing library for Blazor, previewing in .NET 11. We’ll cover the motivation behind this new testing approach, demonstrate how it enables reliable testing of real Blazor apps, and share where we’re heading next as we gather feedback from the community.

.NET MAUI Community Standup: Rust, SkiaSharp Everywhere, AI/ML Live Processing

David and Gerald are joined this month by Nick Kovalsky who will show us some amazing .NET MAUI things with Rust, SkiaSharp and drawn UI (also coming to Blazor?!) and AI live processing that he has been working on.

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