Home Archive .NET 11 Preview, IDs, shutdown patterns – .NET News Daily Issue #395 (Feb 19, 2026)

Editor's note

I kept this issue deliberately mixed: preview bits, architecture, database history, and a few practical how-tos. The .NET 11 Preview 1 post is the big platform update, while the ASP.NET Core shutdown piece is a solid reminder that graceful exits matter as much as throughput.

.NET 11 Preview, IDs, shutdown patterns

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The Exhale: Cancellation, Backpressure, and Graceful Shutdown in ASP.NET Core

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Jasen's take on today's picks

Minimal C#/DotNet internal admin tools with Razor and Bootstrap

A nice practical starting point for team-internal tools instead of throwaway scripts.

Parsing HTML with C#: Text & Structured Data Extraction

Good refresher on turning IDs into part of your model, not just database trivia.

Implementing strongly-typed IDs in .NET for safer domain models

The .NET 11 preview is the headline platform update in the mix.

.NET 11 Preview 1 is now available!

Useful guidance on stopping cleanly under load, not just scaling up.

How Function Composition Can Make Your Code Better

Temporal tables are one of those features that save you from rebuilding history yourself.

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