As usual, Microsoft will hold its virtual .NET Conf in November this year, where it will launch .NET 11.
Hey .NET Fans! It’s that time of year again: .NET Conf is back November 10-12, 2026.
We’ll spend three days learning from the people who build and use .NET, catching up with the community, and launching .NET 11. The event is free and online, so mark your calendar and join us from wherever you are.
Get ready for the release of .NET 11
We’ve been busy building .NET 11, and there’s already plenty to try. The latest previews include work across the runtime, libraries, SDK, ASP.NET Core, C#, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, and more. We’re especially excited about C# 15 union types and the move to CoreCLR for .NET MAUI apps on Android, iOS, and Mac Catalyst. ASP.NET Core and Blazor also have a lot in store, including richer static SSR and form validation, smaller Blazor WebAssembly apps, a new development server, and smoother Aspire integration. Minimal APIs gain async validation and C# union type support, and OpenAPI 3.2 is now the default. Alongside the .NET 11 work, we’ve also released v2.0 of the official MCP C# SDK, with a stateless-by-default protocol designed to make building and scaling AI tools with ASP.NET Core more straightforward.
Catch up on what we’ve shared so far:
Explore what’s new in .NET 11
Explore what’s new in ASP.NET Core in .NET 11
Explore union types in C# 15
Follow the latest CoreCLR progress for .NET MAUI
Read about v2.0 of the official MCP C# SDK
You can also hear directly from the teams in recent .NET Community Standups. There’s more on the way between now and November. We think you’re going to love what the teams have been working on, and we can’t wait to show you the rest at .NET Conf.
Schedule coming soon
We’re hard at work putting the product team schedule together. When the conference site and session list go live, we’ll publish those sessions on our new
http://dot.net/conf mini-site and on the community-run
http://dotnetconf.net site. I’m looking forward to it as always.
riso@techsupport via devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-conf-2026/
