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Learn how custom-built AI agents are dramatically improving the .NET MAUI contribution workflow, reducing issue resolution time by 50-70% while increasing test coverage and code quality.

March 19, 2026

Accelerating .NET MAUI Development with AI Agents

David Ortinau

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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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.

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.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

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