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Apr 22, 2025

Building Real‑Time iOS Apps with SignalR: Introducing the Official Swift Client (Public Preview)

Kevin Guo

Introduction Until now, iOS developers who wanted real‑time, bi‑directional communication with SignalR had to rely on community‑built clients or roll their own Swift implementation—both of which introduced maintenance and compatibility headaches. We’re excited to announce that the official SignalR Swift client is now available in public preview. With this release, you can: In this post you’ll learn how to set up the Swift client and use its core features. During a recent .NET Community Standup, we demoed an AI-enabled chat sample that uses SignalR for streaming AI‑generated tokens to iOS clie...

Apr 22, 2025

Introducing the AI Dev Gallery: Your Gateway to Local AI Development with .NET

Jon,

Luis

Discover the new AI Dev Gallery, a Windows application that provides interactive local AI samples, easy model downloads, and source code export - all built with .NET AI building blocks.

Apr 17, 2025

Preview 2 of the .NET AI Template Now Available

Jordan Matthiesen

Preview 2 of the .NET AI Chat Web App template introduces support for .NET Aspire and Qdrant vector database integration, making it easier to create cloud-native AI-powered chat applications with custom data.

Apr 16, 2025

Build MCP Remote Servers with Azure Functions

Matt Soucoup

Build AI-powered tools quickly using Azure Functions to create remote MCP servers that seamlessly integrate with GitHub Copilot and other LLM-based applications.

Apr 15, 2025

Join the .NET & C# Teams at Microsoft Build 2025

.NET Team

The countdown to Microsoft Build 2025 is on! Join us May 19-22 either in-person in Seattle or online and explore an exciting lineup of .NET and C# content, including sessions on AI integration, app modernization, and the latest language features.