Building for the agentic web with .NET 11
Daniel Roth introduces what “agentic web apps” look like in .NET 11, covering the ASP.NET Core roadmap, performance and security improvements, Aspire-based distributed app development, and new building blocks (agents, tools, skills, and components) for adding agentic capabilities to modern web apps.
Overview
The video outlines how .NET 11 evolves the modern web stack with improvements across ASP.NET Core and Blazor, tighter integration with .NET Aspire for building distributed/cloud-ready apps, and a set of primitives aimed at building “agentic” experiences in web applications.
What’s driving the “agentic web”
- Increasing expectations for:
- Performance
- Security
- Agentic capabilities in web apps
ASP.NET Core and .NET 11 roadmap
- Roadmap discussion for ASP.NET Core on .NET 11
- Focus areas called out in the session:
- Making the core platform faster
- Making the core platform more secure
Link: ASP.NET Roadmap: https://aka.ms/aspnet/roadmap
Demo: Minimal API improvements
- Demonstration segment focused on improvements to Minimal APIs in .NET 11.
Building distributed and cloud-ready apps with .NET Aspire
- Aspire is presented as the distributed app development layer that’s closely integrated with ASP.NET Core and Blazor in .NET 11.
- The session positions Aspire as a key part of building cloud-ready .NET applications.
Links:
- Aspirify it: https://aspire.dev/
- .NET 11 previews: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/11.0
Demo: Blazor + Aspire integration
- Demonstration of Blazor working with Aspire for distributed app development.
Building agentic web apps in .NET 11
- Introduction of new building blocks for agentic web apps:
- Agents
- Tools
- Skills
- Components
Demo: Agentic UI with Blazor and .NET integration
- Demonstration segment showing an agentic UI approach using Blazor with .NET.
AI-assisted .NET web development and “.NET Skills”
- Segment on AI-assisted web development in the .NET ecosystem.
- Demo focused on “build smarter with .NET Skills”.
Links:
- Use .NET AI: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/ai
- Install .NET Skills: https://github.com/dotnet/skills/
Chapters (from the video)
- 00:00 Welcome and Intro
- 00:12 Demands on modern web apps
- 00:47 ASP.NET Core .NET 11 roadmap
- 02:52 Strengthening the foundation of .NET platform
- 04:52 Modern Stack
- 07:27 Demo - Minimal API improvements
- 21:25 Building Distributed and Cloud-ready .NET Cloud Apps with Aspire
- 24:40 Demo - Blazor Aspire integration
- 28:30 Building Agentic Web apps
- 30:42 Demo - Agentic UI with Blazor and .NET integration
- 36:12 AI-assisted .NET web development
- 38:16 Demo - Build smarter with .NET Skills
- 41:28 The big picture
- 42:56 Get involved
- 43:43 Happy coding!