.NET 11 Preview 1

[jamesmontemagno]

We are pleased to announce the release of .NET 11 Preview 1. Follow the main announcement and blog announcement.

Browse the release notes for a full list of improvements in this release:

• .NET MAUI
• ASP.NET Core
• C#
• F#
• Container images
• Libraries
• Runtime
• SDK
• Visual Basic
• Windows Forms
• WPF

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.