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.NET Native AOT Articles, Tutorials & News

.NET Native AOT articles, tutorials, and news from the DotNetNews archive.

31 articles Updated Jul 21, 2026

.NET Native AOT work shows up across many DotNetNews issues because teams keep hitting the same implementation questions. .NET Native AOT is how .NET teams reason about runtime cost, startup, and throughput once the feature work is done.

Recurring subtopics in recent issues include Native AOT publish, Native AOT ASP.NET Core, self-contained Native AOT, and native. When a subtopic never appears in the archive titles or excerpts, it is left out of this introduction.

Expect publisher tutorials, release notes, architecture write-ups, and field notes linked from DotNetNews issues. Start here is a short editorial shortlist for .NET Native AOT; the archive list is chronological and larger. Secondary angles such as .NET Native AOT and Native AOT publish appear when the archive actually covered them. Cross-links to .NET Ahead-of-Time Compilation and .NET Performance and Optimization help when the problem spans more than one tag.

Each card points at the original publisher URL and the DotNetNews issue that carried it, so you can read the article in context or jump straight to the source.

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.NET 11 Preview 8: New Features and Breaking Changes Explained

c-sharpcorner.com Jul 21, 2026 Issue #501

.NET 11 Preview 8: Explore new features like runtime performance, Native AOT, and JSON serialization. Prepare for breaking changes.

Performance System.Text.Json

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Native AOT vs JIT Compilation in .NET 11: Performance Benchmarks and Trade-Offs

c-sharpcorner.com Jul 06, 2026 Issue #490

Compare .NET 11 Native AOT vs JIT compilation. Explore performance benchmarks, startup time, memory usage, and trade-offs for cloud-native apps.

AOT Performance

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.NET 11 in depth: Runtime, libraries, and SDK for the AI era

youtube.com Jun 09, 2026 Issue #471

Join Chet and Rich for a tour of how the .NET Runtime, libraries, and tooling are improving for .NET 11. You'll learn about investments in Native AOT, support for AI agents of all kinds, foundational ...

OpenAI

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Writing Node.js addons with .NET Native AOT

devblogs.microsoft.com May 01, 2026 Issue #446

C# Dev Kit is a VS Code extension. Like all VS Code extensions, its front end is TypeScript running in Node.js. For certain platform-specific tasks, such as reading the Windows Registry, we've histori...

.NET Core

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AI agents, auth, caching, and clean code

DotNetNews Apr 03, 2026 Issue #426

A varied .NET lineup covering AI agents, JWT and OAuth, Redis caching, distributed locks, Blazor, and event sourcing with real-world examples.

ASP.NET Core Authentication Azure

Issue #426
C# design, AI upgrades, and ASP.NET Core

DotNetNews Apr 01, 2026 Issue #424

A mixed .NET roundup covering maintainable C#, AI-assisted legacy upgrades, ASP.NET Core configuration, EF Core mistakes, and performance tuning.

ASP.NET Core C# .NET 10

Issue #424
MCP servers, .NET 11 Preview 2, and Copilot CLI

DotNetNews Mar 17, 2026 Issue #413

This issue covers MCP servers and SDK updates, .NET 11 Preview 2, MAUI, architecture testing, VS Code AI workflows, and container publishing.

AOT ASP.NET Core Azure

Issue #413
Background jobs and security picks

DotNetNews Jan 13, 2026 Issue #368

This issue covers schedulers, auth best practices, DI with Autofac, and several .NET fundamentals pieces, plus AI-assisted remediation and configuration.

Authentication Authorization Azure

Issue #368
Creating a .NET CLR profiler using C# and NativeAOT with Silhouette

andrewlock.net Dec 22, 2025 Issue #352

In this post I look at how to create a simple .NET profiler. But instead of using C++, the profiler uses C# and NativeAOT with the Silhouette library

C# Profiling

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The Ultimate Clean Architecture Guide for .NET 9 (2026 Edition)

medium.com Dec 18, 2025 Issue #350

As we step into 2026, .NET development has entered a new era. With the release of .NET 9, C# 13, major improvements in Native AOT…

Clean Architecture .NET 9

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EF Core, C# features, and ASP.NET Core security

DotNetNews Dec 09, 2025 Issue #343

Practical .NET reads on EF Core configuration, C# language habits, ASP.NET Core pipelines, caching, security, and clean architecture.

ASP.NET Core Azure Clean Architecture

Issue #343
WebAssembly .NET

medium.com Nov 26, 2025 Issue #334

The definitive guide to WebAssembly as the ubiquitous runtime in 2025 — from .NET 10’s Native AOT compilation achieving 6x performance…

.NET 10 Performance

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State of Native AOT in .NET 10

code.soundaranbu.com Nov 19, 2025 Issue #329

After 3 years since my previous article on Native AOT, let’s find out how far AOT compilation in .NET has come.

ASP.NET Core C# Dapper

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REST API Design Mistakes to Avoid (Practical Tips) .NET 9.0

c-sharpcorner.com Nov 17, 2025 Issue #327

Master REST API design in .NET 9.0! Learn to avoid common mistakes, leverage minimal APIs, and ensure security, scalability, and Native AOT compatibility.

REST API

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ASP.NET Core, architecture, and performance

DotNetNews Nov 12, 2025 Issue #324

A varied .NET roundup with Clean Architecture, ASP.NET Core REST API guidance, LINQ and memory fixes, plus Redis, SQL Server, and WebAssembly.

ASP.NET Core Azure Blazor

Issue #324
Hidden .NET 10 features, CQRS, and observability

DotNetNews Oct 28, 2025 Issue #313

A varied roundup covering .NET 10, ASP.NET Core patterns, Docker and Kubernetes, auth, Azure Functions logging, AI validation, and performance.

ASP.NET Core Authentication Authorization

Issue #313
sleep-pc: a .NET Native AOT tool to make Windows sleep after a timeout

andrewlock.net Sep 30, 2025 Issue #293

In this post I describe a small native AOT .NET tool that I built to force a Windows PC to go to sleep after a timer expires

Performance

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Packaging self-contained and native AOT .NET tools for NuGet: Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 7

andrewlock.net Sep 15, 2025 Issue #284

In this post we look at the new support for platform-specific .NET tools, so that you can pack your tools as self-contained or Native AOT packages

.NET 10

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Native AOT deployment в .NET

medium.com Sep 12, 2025 Issue #283

Ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation can significantly improve startup speed and execution time, especially on the first run, but it comes with…

.NET 8

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Long Polling vs Short Polling: Which One Fits Your Real-Time App?

medium.com Aug 22, 2025 Issue #268

Understand the differences, trade-offs, and best practices for short polling and long polling — with real .NET and Node.js examples

.NET 9

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Azure SQL GA, EF Core filters, and Semantic Kernel

DotNetNews Aug 07, 2025 Issue #257

This issue covers Azure SQL GA features, EF Core global filters, Semantic Kernel, ASP.NET security, source generators, Aspire, and more.

.NET Aspire Authentication Authorization

Issue #257
EF Core pipelines, ASP.NET filters, and C# basics

DotNetNews Jul 14, 2025 Issue #239

A varied .NET roundup covering EF Core release pipelines, ASP.NET Core filters, logging, testing, AI, and language fundamentals.

ASP.NET Core C# EF Core

Issue #239
C# fundamentals, EF Core, and Azure messaging

DotNetNews Jun 06, 2025 Issue #213

This issue covers C# language basics, EF Core guidance, Azure Service Bus, .NET 9, observability, performance, and native Windows apps.

Azure C# .NET 9

Issue #213
Memory leaks, EF Core, and API tuning

DotNetNews May 07, 2025 Issue #191

A mixed .NET roundup covering memory leaks, EF Core Count vs Any, ASP.NET Core API performance, dependency injection, and Azure DevOps tests.

ASP.NET Core Azure Azure DevOps

Issue #191
ASP.NET Core middleware, DI, and perf tips

DotNetNews Apr 14, 2025 Issue #174

A mixed .NET roundup covering ASP.NET Core headers, keyed DI, async performance mistakes, Semantic Kernel search, and .NET 9 internals.

ASP.NET Core Blazor C#

Issue #174