Last week, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 10 RC 1, the first of two release candidates ahead of the final version. As stated by the .NET team, this build comes with a go-live license, allowin

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.NET 10 Release Candidate 1 is now available with production support, introducing persistent component state in Blazor for enhanced navigation, improved validation for Minimal APIs and Blazor with new attributes, refined OpenAPI schema generation, and dark mode support for Windows Forms. Entity Framework Core 10 adds SQL Server vector data type support and JSON column integration, while .NET MAUI gains diagnostics instrumentation and experimental CoreCLR runtime support for Android.

.NET 10 RC 1: Introduces Persistent State in Blazor, Enhanced Validation, and Production-Ready Tools