AI Agents, EF Core, and Blazor

Getting Started With Dapr for Building Cloud-Native Microservices in .NET

Medium - Anton Martyniuk

Building microservices is hard. Continue reading on CodeX »

Topics: Kubernetes

From an Empty Folder to an AI Agent: Meet create-cosmos-agent

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Sajeetharan Sinnathurai

The first few minutes of a new AI project often feel productive. Create a chat endpoint, connect a model, send a prompt, and display the answer. Then the real questions arrive. Where should the agent ...

Topics: Cosmos DB

Control Concurrent AI Requests Without Overloading Your .NET App

C# Corner - Ranknod

Topics: Performance

Dependency Injection & Service Lifetimes in C#: What .NET Interviews Actually Ask

Medium - Anchalmehandiratta

This is where a lot of .NET interviews start, and it’s a topic that pulls together everything from interfaces to constructors to the DI…

Topics: C#

Build Agentic UI with the new Blazor AI components

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Daniel Roth

AI enables natural and powerful ways for people to interact with software through language, voice, and vision. Applications with agents go further by helping users accomplish work. Agents can gather c...

Topics: Blazor

C# 14 Quietly Broke Our EF Core Queries, and array.Contains() Was the Culprit

Medium - Owais

Nobody touched the code. We changed , and a query that had worked for years started throwing an exception that named…

Topics: C# EF Core

The Real Cost of Returning the Identity Value in EF Core

Medium - Anton Martyniuk

When you insert thousands of rows into SQL Server with Entity Framework Core, performance drops quickly. Continue reading on CodeX »

Topics: EF Core Performance SQL Server

Adding JsonPath support to custom object models in .NET

Meziantou's blog - Gérald Barré

In , we used JsonNode as the input type. If your data is already loaded in domain classes, you can evaluate JsonPath directly on those classes without converting to JsonNode. Meziantou.Framework.JsonP...

Topics: System.Text.Json

GitHub App Tokens Are Getting Longer: What Should Developers Check?

C# Corner - Aarav Patel

Topics: GitHub Security

Set and Track a Token Budget for an AI Workflow in .NET

C# Corner - Ranknod

Topics: Performance

Tail Rent: What Actually Happens to Your Agent’s Memory After a Week of Continuous Runtime

Dotnet on Medium - Ali Süleyman TOPUZ

I had a coding agent running against a real backlog for the better part of four days last month. Not one long unbroken session, but a… Continue reading on Towards AI »

Topics: Performance

Running NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Diarization on a Windows CPU — with .NET and Japanese Audio

Medium - Kensaku Kuboya

A 193-second Japanese conversation diarized in 9.9 seconds on a 2018 office PC, with a C# P/Invoke bridge and listening-based quality…

Topics: C# Performance

C# Beyond Syntax: 10 Concepts to Understand What Your Code Does

Medium - Asaph Fernandes

A visual overview of behavior, execution, and resources in C# and .NET, with small examples and explicit boundaries.

Topics: C#

What I Wish I Knew Before Building APIs in ASP.NET Core

Medium - Somnath Mukherjee

Leaked entities, 9-second endpoints, and a breaking change I never saw coming. Here’s what I’d tell my past self.

Topics: ASP.NET Core REST API Web API

Entity Framework Core in C#: What .NET Interviews Actually Ask

Medium - Anchalmehandiratta

EF Core comes up in almost every .NET interview that touches a database, and one question dominates: the N+1 problem. This covers the…

Topics: EF Core