.NET Rocks! ASP.NET Core in 2026 with Daniel Roth
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Apr 2, 2026 Daniel Roth, Principal Product Manager on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft, discusses the 2026 direction for ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Highlights include the public roadmap for .NET 11, modern-stack priorities like minimal APIs, Blazor, and SignalR. Conversations cover async validation, state persistence and pause/resume for scaling, WebAssembly workers, C# union support, and emerging AI and passkey integrations.
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Roadmap Driven By Community Signals
- ASP.NET Core's public roadmap on GitHub guides .NET 11 work and prioritizes top-requested issues like async validation.
- Daniel Roth explained they evaluate thumbs-up and comments to pick community pain points to fix across minimal APIs and Blazor.
Adopt Async Validation When Available
- Implement async validation in your code paths once .NET 11 lands to enable DB-backed checks like username uniqueness without blocking UI.
- Roth said async validation will be integrated into System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations so it becomes first-class across frameworks.
Blazor Gets Focused Observability
- Observability and diagnostics got explicit attention in .NET 10 and continue in 11, with Blazor-specific metrics and tracing for long-lived server circuits.
- Roth highlighted CPU profiles and memory dumps now available for Blazor WebAssembly diagnostics.