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Microsoft Build 2024: AI-Focused Sessions and .NET Highlights

It’s the month of May, so it’s time for Microsoft Build, its annual developer conference, where it’ll showcase the innovative features to the community.

It’s the age of AI, which is disrupting the status quo. So most of the sessions are scheduled along that line as expected.

For .NET MAUI, Blazor, and C#, these are the highly recommended sessions to watch.

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.NET MAUI 8 Service Releases

After the holidays, the first service release (SR1) of .NET MAUI on .NET 8 was released today. This release is published as a NuGet package rather than a workload update as it tries to address many of the issues faced with the GA release. The changelog is available here. So instead of doing an dotnet workload update, follow the steps given below to pull the latest version so the change is minimal and future-proof for the existing projects.

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MSBuild 2023 – Focus on .NET MAUI and Blazor Hybrid

ChatGPT and Copilot were the primary focus of this year’s MSBuild 2023, Microsoft’s annual developer conference.

From the .NET MAUI perspective, with just around 1 year of official support left for Xamarin, which will end on May 1, 2024, the main focus was on the upgrade from Xamarin to .NET MAUI.