Advanced .NET topics — performance, internals, and modern patterns.
Build 2026 shrank to two days at Fort Mason in San Francisco — 'real code, no fluff.' Agents became the platform, Microsoft shipped its own models, and Windows turned into an agent OS. It's also the first Build we haven't attended in person since 2012.
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Build 2025 ran four days in Seattle under one banner — 2024 was the year of the assistant, 2025 is the year of the agent. GitHub Copilot grew its own asynchronous coding agent, Agent Mode spread to every major IDE, Azure AI Foundry crossed into model-as-a-utility territory with Grok 3, NLWeb pitched itself as 'HTML for the agentic web,' and the Model Context Protocol quietly became the standard underneath all of it.
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Build 2024 in Seattle put cloud-native .NET on a supported footing with Aspire's GA, launched a new class of NPU-equipped Copilot+ PCs, and shipped Recall — the feature that would spend the next month getting taken apart by security researchers. Our candid read from Ibbenbüren.
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.NET MAUI reached general availability, Azure Container Apps went GA, Microsoft Dev Box and Project Volterra previewed, and Azure OpenAI Service opened up — the Build where the tools we use every day grew up. A long look back from Ibbenbüren.
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