AI in .NET: The Complete Landscape for Developers
Map the 2026 AI in .NET ecosystem: Microsoft.Extensions.AI, Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, vector data, MCP, ML.NET, ONNX and Foundry, and when to use each.
In-depth guides to .NET and AI technologies, AI news with a developer's perspective, and senior-level .NET interview questions for engineers with 10 to 20 years of experience.
Map the 2026 AI in .NET ecosystem: Microsoft.Extensions.AI, Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, vector data, MCP, ML.NET, ONNX and Foundry, and when to use each.
Build AI agents in C# with Microsoft Agent Framework 1.x: ChatClientAgent, sessions, tools, MCP, workflows, human approval, hosting and migration.
Build production RAG in C#, covering ingestion, chunking, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, grounded prompts, citations and evaluation in .NET.
A practical tour of .NET 10 LTS: JIT de-abstraction, stack allocation, post-quantum crypto, strict JSON, file-based apps, C# 14 and the .NET 11 outlook.
C# 14 new features explained with examples: extension members, the field keyword, null-conditional assignment, first-class spans and more in .NET 10.
Build fast HTTP APIs with Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core: route handlers, binding, TypedResults, route groups, filters, .NET 10 validation, OpenAPI and AOT.
Anthropic said on September 23, 2026 that Claude agents found ART, a phage enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats, as it unveiled a new life sciences lab.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026 at $4/$20 per million tokens, with Fable-class safeguards and four breaking API changes to plan for.
Microsoft shipped .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 on September 8, 2026, with a go-live license, C# 15 union types and experimental Blazor components for agent UIs.
NVIDIA signed a deal to buy Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion and pledged to keep the hub open. What it means for developers who rely on open models.
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic unlawful. Here is how the dispute unfolded and what it means for AI buyers.
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8 in August 2026, its first Qwen-Max-class open-weight model: a 2.4T MoE with 95B active parameters, followed by a 27B model.
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