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Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Syncfusion

Microsoft and Syncfusion are collaborating on Blazor through a free, open-source component toolkit, framework contributions, ...

Syncfusion® Collaborates with Microsoft on Blazor and Windows Forms, Commits to Ongoing .NET Investment

The company backs the commitment with more than 100 pull requests, validation of new .NET 11 Blazor features, and contributions to .NET 12 Windows Forms modernizationRESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Oct.
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Blazor Gets Free MIT-Licensed Component Toolkit from Syncfusion

An MIT-licensed Blazor component library is available without Syncfusion licensing, while framework fixes have already been merged.
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You Can Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 on Sale for A$42 Right Now

This is a steep discount on Microsoft’s pro-grade IDE — useful if you already work in the .NET or C++ ecosystem.

2026-10-28 OSS PR Summary — Key Repository Trends for .NET, Fluent UI, and Agent Framework

IntroductionThis summary covers PRs merged between October 26 and 27, 2026, across six repositories, including Fluent UI, ...
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Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Infragistics

Microsoft and Infragistics are collaborating on Blazor through free, open-source components, new .NET 11 analyzers, and developer tooling.

Visual Studio Professional 2026 drops to $29.97 for a lifetime license

The 64-bit IDE comes with hot reload, IntelliCode, CodeLens, Live Share, and support for GitHub Copilot Free. One payment ...
Cyber Security News

Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Updates for Brotli and .NET tarballs Vulnerability

Tracked as CVE-2026-111497, the first vulnerability affects .NET’s use of Brotli decompression across all platforms. A buffer ...