Testing, Azure SQL, and AI Agents

Run temporary containers in .NET tests with Meziantou.Framework.TemporaryContainers

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Integration tests are much more valuable when they run against real services. Instead of mocking a database or cache, you can start a temporary container, run your test, and dispose everything at the ...

Topics: Docker Unit Testing

Why don't we allow stacks to be sparse, instead of forcing them to be contiguous?

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When I discussed why we don't just make the entire stack out of guard pages, comme

E4: Optimize performance and scalability with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale

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Bob and Anna demo Azure SQL Database Hyperscale’s unique architecture, including independent scaling for compute and storage to help manage changing application demands without disruptions. 0:00: Intr...

Topics: Azure SQL Server

Less known LINQ methods

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many useful extension methods that developers often overlook

Topics: C#

Microsoft Agent Framework Channels: Connecting .NET AI Agents to Telegram, A2A, and MCP

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Learn how Microsoft Agent Framework channels connect .NET AI agents with Telegram, A2A, MCP, and other communication systems while maintaining a scalable enterprise agent architecture.

Topics: C# Semantic Kernel

Advocating for Uptime: The 6 Phases of Change

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Schema change is inevitable. We do not get everything right the first time, and even when we do, the world around the database keeps changing. Requirements mature, products evolve, and assumptions tha...

Topics: Azure SQL Server

Best Practices in .NET I Don't Like Anymore

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Topics: C#

VideoFloppy: Five Years, Ten Users, One Dollar

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I built it because something I loved disappeared. Five years later it has a handful of users, one paying customer, and it taught me more…

GitHub Specify

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tl;drGitHub Specify (commonly seen as the specify CLI plus the GitHub Spec Kit) is a lightweight toolkit and workflow designed to make Spec‑Driven Development (SDD) practical. It scaffolds a spec‑firs...

Topics: GitHub

Building Persistent .NET Services with Aspire 13.5 and Kubernetes Volumes

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Learn how to build persistent .NET services with Aspire 13.5 and Kubernetes volumes while testing storage persistence across container restarts and deployments.

Topics: .NET Aspire Docker Kubernetes

What is middleware in ASP.NET Core and the gotchas

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Learn what middleware is in ASP.NET Core, how to write your own, and the gotchas around calling next, and changing the response after it starts.

Topics: ASP.NET Core

MSVC C++23: constexpr cmath with LLVM Libc

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Proposal P0533R9 made numerous math functions in the standard library compile-time evaluable in C++23. Implementing the feature required a good bit of time and effort, but MSVC is preparing its experi...

Topics: Visual Studio

Platform Modernization Using Copilot Agents: What Happens When You Let AI Own the Upgrade, Not Just…

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We had 23 services stuck on .NET 6, and no time to do it the old way.

Topics: GitHub Copilot

E3: Build AI apps with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale

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Bob and Anna demo how to use vector embeddings and vector indexes in Azure SQL Database Hyperscale for more efficient semantic search and retrieval capabilities. 0:00: Introduction: AI in Azure SQL 0:...

Topics: Azure SQL Server

Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents: Benchmarking Deployment Overhead for .NET Agents

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Benchmark Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents for .NET by measuring deployment time, startup overhead, resource usage, and the operational cost of hosted AI agents.

Topics: Azure Benchmarking C#

Stop Your AI Agent Picking the Wrong .NET Libraries

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AI agents default to AutoMapper, MediatR and MassTransit, all now commercial. Verified 2026 licensing, NuGet MCP Server, and guardrails that fail the build.

Topics: AutoMapper MediatR

GitHub Copilot Code Review for Azure Repos: Detecting False Positives and Missed Bugs

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Test GitHub Copilot code review on Azure Repos to identify false positives, missed bugs, detection accuracy, and practical limitations of AI-assisted code reviews.

Topics: Azure DevOps GitHub Copilot

The case of the progress callback that never got called when progress happened

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A colleague was trying to figure out why their progress handler wasn't being called. // C# async Task DownloadItemAsync(string id) { var op = item.DownloadAsync(id); op.Progress += (s, pct) UpdateProg...

Topics: C#

Copilot Review To The Rescue

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For those who are following along with the evolution of my Blog Writing application: after the last revision (allowing follow-up questions to a query) Copilot evaluated my Pull Request and sent me an ...

Topics: GitHub GitHub Copilot

Tackle real database changes with SQL projects in VS Code | Data Exposed

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In this Data Exposed episode, we go beyond SQL projects setup and into the day-to-day challenges of making deployable database changes in VS Code. See how IntelliSense catches errors quickly, how refa...

Topics: SQL Server Visual Studio Code

Testing AI Agents When External Web Sources Become Unavailable

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Learn how to test AI agents when web search and external sources fail, including timeout handling, fallback strategies, graceful degradation, and response validation.

Topics: C# Unit Testing