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

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.NET 11 ships concrete engineering wins: the .NET CLI and many bundled tools move to native AOT .NET CLI (user-secrets runs ~54 ms, app time ~14 ms), SDK tarballs shrink by ~80 MB via deduplication, and a new dotnetup tool manages toolchains without admin. Libraries add safe process helpers (RunAndCaptureTextAsync, ReadAllLinesAsync, anonymous pipes, SafeProcessHandle), richer text APIs (UTF‑8/16 validation, AnyNewLine, rune‑aware strings), System.Text.Json per‑type policies and JSON‑lines support, integrated Zstandard, opt‑in runtime-async that removes state machines, and a preview memory‑safety push to eliminate unsafe patterns.

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1. 0:00Welcome and Intros
2. 0:30Agenda
3. 0:52NET Work Streams
4. 2:00NET run Device Selection
5. 3:50NET CLI and agents
6. 6:30Adopting Native AOT: bundled tools
7. 9:00Adopting Native AOT: .NET
8. 11:06Embracing threads in MSBuild - coming soon
9. 12:08Getting started with dotnetup
10. 12:58Smaller payloads!!
11. 14:50What's new in Libraries
12. 15:55The problem: capturing two streams could deadlock
13. 17:07The improvements - RunAndCaptureText
14. 17:35ReadAllLinesAsync
15. 18:00Redirect handles
16. 19:00Lifetime: fire and forget
17. 19:40SafeProcessHandle
18. 20:11Text processing: Unicode, newlines emoji
19. 22:40Text search: convenient path
20. 24:14System.Text.Json
21. 26:50Compression and archive API's get faster and broader
22. 28:35Runtime Async Introduction
23. 30:20Runtime Async: Comparison
24. 31:54Runtime Async: Benefits
25. 33:54Sample App
26. 35:05Compiler Async - demo .NET 10
27. 36:07Runtime Async - demo .NET 11
28. 37:00Runtime Async and NativeAOT: same architecture
29. 37:44Memory Safety Project
30. 39:14Runtime: JIT, intirnsics, and codegen quality
31. 43:42In summary

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