Microsoft Releases .NET 11 Preview 2

.NET 11 Preview 2 delivers improvements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more.

There’s not much to say here, sadly. As with .NET Preview 1 from one month ago, there’s nothing major to discuss, and if these two previews are any indication, .NET 11 won’t move the needle at all for those (like me) who were hoping for more modernization work in the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). I guess that’s done.

What we do get in this second preview is some improvements to System.Text.Json, a Runtime Async v2 release that brings significant progress toward runtime-native async,” smaller SDK installers on Linux and macOS, some code analyzer improvements, and various small improvements across ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, .NET for Android.

What we don’t get are any improvements, meaningful or otherwise, to C#, Visual Basic, Windows Forms, or, as noted, WPF.

You can download .NET 11 Preview 2 in SDK and runtime forms from the .NET website. And you can use this with the latest Visual Studio 2026 Insiders builds or Visual Studio Code and the C# Dev Kit extension.