Blazor Benchmarks, Aspire, EF Core and AI Agents
Coverage includes .NET 11 and MAUI performance tests, ASP.NET Core config validation, EF Core contribution guidance, PostgreSQL 19, and agent tooling.
Jasen's top three picks
- 1 .NET 11 Blazor WebAssembly: Benchmarking Smaller Apps and Startup Performance
c-sharpcorner.com
Useful if you're tracking whether .NET 11 meaningfully improves small Blazor WASM apps, not just larger showcase scenarios.
- 2 Submission Manager : A Generic Multi-Tier Submission System Using Blazor, Web API, and Windows Forms
c-sharpcorner.com
Interesting architecture walkthrough for teams juggling web, API, and desktop clients from a shared .NET model.
- 3 .NET Aspire 13.5 AppHost: Replacing Deployment YAML with C# Infrastructure
c-sharpcorner.com
The C#-instead-of-YAML pitch will appeal to .NET shops trying to reduce config drift and keep infrastructure closer to application code.
Editor's note
I kept this one deliberately mixed, which is how I like the newsletter best. The Blazor WebAssembly and MAUI benchmarking pieces are useful because they focus on startup, memory, and real tradeoffs instead of vague speed claims. I also liked the Aspire AppHost article for its practical C#-driven deployment angle, and the EF Core standup is a good on-ramp for anyone wanting to contribute to the project.
Today's articles
.NET 11 Blazor WebAssembly: Benchmarking Smaller Apps and Startup Performance
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Benchmark .NET 11 Blazor WebAssembly applications to measure startup time, download size, memory usage, and performance improvements in smaller apps.
Topics: Benchmarking Blazor .NET 10
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Submission Manager : A Generic Multi-Tier Submission System Using Blazor, Web API, and Windows Forms
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Learn how to design and build a generic multi-tier application using a shared .NET architecture. This article explores a practical implementation of the SubmissionManager system, connecting Blazor web...
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.NET Aspire 13.5 AppHost: Replacing Deployment YAML with C# Infrastructure
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Explore .NET Aspire 13.5 AppHost and learn how C# infrastructure definitions can simplify deployment configuration and reduce infrastructure drift.
Topics: .NET Aspire Azure Docker
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Add Blazor to Your WPF App — Without Rewriting It
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How to Validate Configuration in ASP.NET Core
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Bad configuration should crash your app at startup, not deep in a request. Learn how to validate configuration in ASP.NET Core with Data Annotations and FluentValidation, and fail fast with ValidateOn
Topics: ASP.NET Core FluentValidation Security
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Building your own MCP server
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is all the rage and rightly so. As the USB-C for AI, it is an incredibly powerful tool that acts as a bridge between real-world systems and LLMs. But how do you get st...
Topics: C# OpenAI Semantic Kernel
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AI Agents vs LLMs: What’s the Difference and When Should Developers Use Each?
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Understand the difference between LLMs and AI agents with practical C# and .NET examples covering tool calling, memory, state, agent loops, RAG, guardrails, and enterprise AI architecture.
Topics: C# OpenAI Semantic Kernel
Read article.NET Data Community Standup: How to start contributing to Entity Framework Core
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Learn how to start contributing to the Entity Framework Core project. Where to start. How to build the repository. How it is layered. How tests work. Etc. 🎙️ Featuring: Jiri Cincura #efcore #ef #dotn...
Topics: .NET Core EF Core GitHub
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Grand Larceny Auto: Manually Unpacking a ConfuserEx-Protected .NET/Godot CTF Challenge
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A hands-on walkthrough of defeating rename obfuscation, control-flow flattening, caller-bound string encryption, and a logic bug in a…
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CoPilot Harness and Microsoft Agent Framework
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Our friends at Microsoft have paired our development tool (CoPilot) with Microsoft Agent Framework. This powerful combination allows developers to create intelligent agents that can automate tasks, en...
Topics: C# GitHub Copilot OpenAI
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What Actually Happens When You Use async and await in .NET?
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If you work with .NET, you have probably written code like this:
Topics: C# .NET Core Performance
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.NET MAUI CoreCLR Migration: Benchmarking Startup and Memory on Android
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Learn how the .NET MAUI CoreCLR migration affects Android applications by benchmarking startup time, memory usage, runtime performance, and application behavior.
Topics: Benchmarking .NET MAUI Performance
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.NET 11 ZIP Password Support: Benchmarking Encrypted Archive Performance
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Benchmark encrypted ZIP archive performance in .NET 11 by measuring CPU usage, memory consumption, processing time, archive size, and throughput.
Topics: Benchmarking .NET 10 Performance
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PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3: Testing Temporal Tables with EF Core
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Learn how to test PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 temporal tables with EF Core, including temporal queries, compatibility testing, and potential query behavior changes.
Topics: .NET Core EF Core PostgreSQL
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.NET 11 HTTP Compression: Benchmarking Large JSON APIs Under CPU Pressure
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Benchmark HTTP compression in .NET 11 APIs with large JSON responses to measure bandwidth savings, CPU usage, latency, and throughput under load.
Topics: .NET 10 System.Text.Json Web API
Read articleFind and Fix Failing Tests Faster in VS Code
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Got a failing test in CI? See how VS Code’s Test Explorer makes it easy to filter your tests, find the failure, debug the issue, view test results, and rerun the test—all without leaving VS Code. #vsc...
Topics: Unit Testing Visual Studio Code xUnit.net
Read articlePostgreSQL 19 SQL/PGQ: Building Property Graph Queries with .NET
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Learn how PostgreSQL 19 SQL/PGQ enables property graph queries and explore how .NET applications can model relationships, traverse graphs, and query connected data.
Topics: C# .NET Core PostgreSQL
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How to Set Excel Cell Background in C# (Solid, Texture, and Gradient)
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Are you looking to make your Excel reports more visually appealing and easier to interpret? Whether you need to highlight critical KPIs…
Topics: C# .NET Core Performance
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