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Microsoft Releases Aspire 13.5 with a Refreshed Dashboard and Workflow Improvements

Almir Vuk — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:07:00 GMT

Last week, Microsoft released Aspire 13.5, an update that refreshes the dashboard and the aspire.dev homepage and adds several quality-of-life features. The Interaction Service gains file imports and progress dialogs; resources can host an interactive terminal in the dashboard, and deployment adds Kubernetes persistent volumes and cross-scope Azure references.

By Almir Vuk

.NET 11 Preview 7 Brings Updates across C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and Windows Forms

Almir Vuk — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:26:00 GMT

Last week Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 7, with updates across C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, Windows Forms, and F#. C# adds labeled break and continue. ASP.NET Core brings Blazor circuit pausing, CacheView, and built-in validation localization. Windows Forms gains an opt-in modern rendering pipeline, and EF Core adds Half type support on SQLite.

By Almir Vuk

.NET 11 MAUI Preview 7 Adds Passkeys, Incremental XAML Hot Reload, and Shell Route Templates to MAUI

Edin Kapić — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 7 with a substantial set of .NET MAUI updates, including cross-platform passkey authentication, a new incremental XAML Hot Reload implementation, Shell route templates, and additional AOT-safe bindings. The release also continues MAUI’s migration from legacy renderers to handlers and improves development workflows on Android and Apple platforms.

By Edin Kapić

Rx.NET 7.0 Reduces Deployment Size by Splitting Windows UI Support

Edin Kapić — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Rx.NET 7.0 has been released with a narrowly focused change aimed at reducing deployment size for Windows applications. The new version separates WPF, Windows Forms, UWP, and Windows Runtime integration from the main System.Reactive package, avoiding cases where self-contained applications could acquire tens of megabytes of unused framework dependencies.

By Edin Kapić