Last week, Microsoft released the second preview of .NET 11, bringing a wide range of improvements across its development platform. As reported, the release covers updates to the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, F#, and more. The preview is available now, and as stated, it represents a significant step forward in the platform’s ongoing development cycle.
ASP.NET Core gains native OpenTelemetry tracing support in this release. The framework now adds OpenTelemetry semantic attributes directly to HTTP server activity, meaning developers no longer need the separate instrumentation library to collect standard tracing data. Attributes such as request method, URL path, response status code, and server address are now populated automatically by…