AI Agents, Secure Pipelines and .NET Design

.NET Scripting is Finally Complete

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Topics: C#

Creating A Textbox UI Element In Monogame!

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Whether you are new or returning to Monogame/XNA, at some point we inevitably require UI. Some elements are easy, some need a bit more set…

Topics: C#

MCP Live!

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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard for connecting AI models to tools and data. This half-day event covers MCP end to end: its role as an open standard, how it's adopted across the d...

Topics: OpenAI

The Socket Is Not the Toaster

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What an interface actually is in C#, and how to know you understood it Continue reading on Coffee☕ And Code »

Topics: C# Design Patterns

What's new in Microsoft Foundry: July and August 2026

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Microsoft Foundry's July and August 2026 updates make Hosted Agents, Voice Live integration, and Toolboxes generally available; expand Claude tools hosted on Azure; update Model Router's regions and m...

Topics: Azure OpenAI

Your work might not need the smartest model

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The smartest model can cost five times more and deliver the same result, or even a worse one. See how evaluating your own work helps you get more value from your agent budget. The post Your work might...

Topics: Benchmarking OpenAI

Microsoft Agent Framework Harness: Testing AI Agents with Evals and OpenTelemetry

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Learn how to build a Microsoft Agent Framework testing harness using evaluations and OpenTelemetry to measure AI agent behavior, tool calls, latency, failures, and reliability.

Topics: OpenAI OpenTelemetry Unit Testing

Microsoft.Extensions.AI Failover: Benchmarking Multi-Provider AI Recovery

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Learn how to benchmark Microsoft.Extensions.AI failover across multiple AI providers, measuring recovery time, latency, reliability, retries, and operational cost.

Topics: Benchmarking OpenAI Performance

Deploying to Foundry

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The demonstration program discussed (and used) in the previous blog posts ran entirely locally as a console application. This week I set out to migrate it to Foundry. To do so, I enlisted the help of ...

Topics: Azure OpenAI

SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – August 2026

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SPFx 1.24 Beta 3 is now available, React 18 support is coming in 1.24, and a new Copilot Components preview program opens for customers and partners. The post SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap updat...

Topics: GitHub Copilot

Clean Architecture in .NET: When It Helps and When It Becomes Overengineering

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Clean Architecture is one of those topics that almost every experienced .NET developer eventually runs into. At first, it feels like the… Continue reading on Stackademic »

Topics: Clean Architecture Design Patterns

I Need My CI/CD Pipeline to Access Cosmos DB Without Using a Secret

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In the last post we walked through

Topics: Authentication Azure DevOps Cosmos DB

7 Authentication Concepts Every Developer Should Know: From Basic Auth to OAuth2 and OIDC

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A beginner-friendly, diagram-backed walkthrough of the seven core authentication concepts every developer should understand from Basic Auth and sessions to JWTs, OAuth2, and OpenID Connect/SSO with re...

Topics: Authentication JWT OAuth

What I Learned During My First Software Engineering Internship

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Lessons from working with C#, SQL, APIs, Git, and real development workflows at Comtrade System Integration.

Topics: C# GitHub

💻 Issue 531 - My OSS Projects: AngleSharp

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Topics: C# GitHub

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2 ? Why 2?

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If you look at x86 compiler output (or if, like me, you're looking at a crash caused by some software that tried to detour an API), you may see an instruction ud2. What's up with that? The ud2 instruc...

Topics: Performance

Introducing agent and workflow channels

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An agent or workflow is only useful when people and other systems can reach it through the interfaces and channels they already use. That might be an OpenAI Responses client, Telegram, another agent u...

Topics: OpenAI

GitHub Copilot Memory: Testing Repository Context Retention Across Agent Sessions

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Test GitHub Copilot Memory across agent sessions to evaluate repository context retention, consistency, scope, deletion behavior, and developer workflows.

Topics: GitHub Copilot

Massive AutoMapper Vulnerability in .NET

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Get every Dometrain 30% off with code HANDSON30: https://dometrain.com/courses/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube&coupon_code=HANDSON30 Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about th...

Topics: AutoMapper Security

GraphQL for Beginners

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Learn GraphQL for beginners by comparing it with REST and gRPC, understanding queries, mutations, subscriptions, schemas, over-fetching, under-fetching, N+1 queries, and practical API use cases.

Topics: gRPC REST API

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

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I noted some time ago that Windows XP chose your initial picture at random from among the pictures in the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures

Topics: .NET Framework