.NET 11 Preview 2 is now available!

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Today, we are excited to announce the second preview release of .NET 11! This release includes improvements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, F#, Entity Framework Core, container images, and more. Check out the full release notes linked below and get started today.

Download .NET 11 Preview 2

This release contains the following improvements.

📚Libraries

⏱Runtime

🛠 SDK

C#

.NET 11 Preview 2 doesn’t include any notable new C# language features or breaking changes. Browse the What’s new in C# documentation for details.

F#

Visual Basic

.NET 11 Preview 2 doesn’t include any notable new Visual Basic language features or breaking changes. Browse the What’s new in Visual Basic documentation for details.

🌐 ASP.NET Core & Blazor

📱 .NET MAUI

.NET for Android

Browse the full release notes for all of this and more, including experimental CoreCLR support for .NET for iOS, Mac Catalyst, macOS, and tvOS.

🖥 Windows Forms

.NET 11 Preview 2 doesn’t include any notable new Windows Forms features or breaking changes. Browse the What’s new in Windows Forms documentation for details.

🖥 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

This release focused on quality improvements, including a fix to guard against crashes caused by Desktop Window Manager (DWM) failures. A full list of changes can be found in the release notes.

🎁 Entity Framework Core

📦 Container Images

🚀 Get started

To get started with .NET 11, install the .NET 11 SDK.

If you’re on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing the latest Visual Studio 2026 Insiders. You can also use Visual Studio Code and the C# Dev Kit extension with .NET 11.

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