AI Agents, Azure Operations and Parallel C#

Keep Azure Foundry Hosted Agent credentials out of the browser with a BFF (Backend for Frontend)

C# Corner - Cristopher Coronado

Topics: ASP.NET Core Azure Security

Use crypto.parsePKCS12() to Read PKCS#12 Files in Node.js

C# Corner - Saurav Kumar

Topics: Security

Azure SQL Data Sync After a Database Restore: Troubleshooting Leftover Sync Metadata

Microsoft Tech Community - Mohamed_Baioumy_MSFT

Recently, I worked on an interesting Azure SQL Data Sync issue that I thought was worth sharing with the community. The scenario looked straightforward at first: a database had been restored from anot...

Topics: Azure SQL Server

Supercharging Your ASP.NET Core MVC Project: A Complete Guide to Setting Up APIs with Swagger/OpenAPI

C# Corner - Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Topics: ASP.NET Core Web API

Automating Incident Response: Configuring Azure Monitor Action Groups with Webhooks and Logic Apps

C# Corner - Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Topics: Application Insights Azure

The Computer Only Works Properly When the User Leaves the Room

Microsoft Tech Community - Dustincrui

I've noticed a really strange problem with my computer: it seems to work perfectly when I leave the room, but as soon as I sit down and start using it, something goes wrong, such as freezing, lagging,...

Topics: Performance

Introducing WinDbg MCP: Debug with natural language, grounded in evidence

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Shanthi Rajan

Debugging rarely starts with a clear answer. An app crashes, a service hangs, a driver fails, or a kernel dump offers few clues. Whether you’re working with a live target, crash dump, or Time Travel D...

Topics: Performance

What Makes My Computer Become Faster After I Threaten to Replace It?

Microsoft Tech Community - Amirioh

My computer suddenly runs faster right after I threaten to replace it, which makes no sense to me. I want to know what could actually cause this strange speed boost and whether it is just coincidence ...

Topics: Performance

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YapCast – Jesse Liberty

So far, this blog has published 1,500 posts.

Topics: C#

How to Plan a Custom Software Development Project

Facile Technolab Blog

Learn how to plan a custom software development project, from requirements and scope to technology, milestones, budget, testing, and launch.

Topics: Design Patterns

AG-UI Now Has a .NET SDK for AI Agent Applications

C# Corner - Niharika Gupta

Topics: C#

Build Your First MCP Server in C# with ASP.NET Core

C# Corner - Nithin

Build a C# MCP server with ASP.NET Core, expose inventory tools over HTTP, and test them locally with the MCP Inspector.

Topics: ASP.NET Core C#

Introducing the Agent Experience (AX) Practitioner Playbook

Microsoft Developer - Waldek Mastykarz

AI coding agents now pick the SDK, the version, and the pattern for your developers. The AX Practitioner Playbook is our method for finding out whether they get your technology right, and for fixing t...

Topics: GitHub Copilot

⚡ Tasks and Parallelism in C#: Running Work in Parallel Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot

Medium - Ravikumar Makwana

We all know how to await a single Task. But things get more interesting when we have multiple operations that can run at the same time.

Topics: C# Performance

Azure Key Vault and BYOK: Lessons Learned

Microsoft Tech Community - gurjsing

Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) lets you import externally generated key material into Azure Key Vault. Importing that material again creates a new version; it does not recreate the original version identif...

Topics: Azure Security

Building a Custom Webhook Receiver in ASP.NET Core for Azure Monitor Alerts

C# Corner - Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Topics: Application Insights ASP.NET Core Web API

Bulletproof Testing: Integration Testing Web APIs with WebApplicationFactory

C# Corner - Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Learn to integration test ASP.NET Core Web APIs with xUnit and WebApplicationFactory, including dependency injection overrides, in-memory databases, and end-to-end HTTP tests.

Topics: ASP.NET Core Unit Testing xUnit.net

Build a .NET Agent Harness With Microsoft.Extensions.AI

C# Corner - Riya Patel

Topics: C#

Why Parallel Code Loses Updates: lock, Interlocked, and Thread-Local State, Measured

C# Corner - dhana gani

Topics: Benchmarking C# Performance

Spanner Queues Bring Transactional Messaging to Google Cloud Spanner

C# Corner - Saurav Kumar

Topics: Kafka

Launching Calcifer 2.0:

Medium - Rakibul H. Rabbi

Every new API starts with the same chores.

Topics: REST API

Hybrid Retrieval in C#: Combining Vector Search, Graph Traversal, and Reranking for Agent Memory

Medium - Mehdi Mohseni

The Problem with Pure Vector Retrieval

Topics: C#

DotThrow 2: one set of checks for guard clauses and validation in .NET

Medium - Shanto462

I rewrote my old guard clause library from scratch. It now ships as three NuGet packages, for plain C#, dependency injection and ASP.NET…

Topics: C# FluentValidation

The Wallpaper Keeps Changing Back to the Previous Owner's Photos

Microsoft Tech Community - Lennonui

My Windows wallpaper keeps reverting to photos that belonged to the previous owner of this computer, even after I change it to my own image. It seems like their account settings or synced theme are st...

Topics: Performance

Background Processing: Handling Long-Running Tasks Safely with Hosted Services

C# Corner - Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Learn to process long-running ASP.NET Core Web API tasks safely with BackgroundService, IHostedService, and a thread-safe System.Threading.Channels queue.

Topics: ASP.NET Core C# Web API