Event Delivery, AOT, and Agent Tooling

The Outbox Pattern in .NET: Stop Losing Events

Medium - Martin Bernaola Mendez

Your order is saved, but the “OrderPlaced” event never left. Here is the pattern that makes that impossible, in under five minutes.

Topics: Design Patterns Event Sourcing

Create Memory Dumps in C# to Diagnose Production Failures

C# Corner - Riya Patel

Topics: Performance Profiling

Secure Password Hashing and Verification in ASP.NET Core

C# Corner - Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Topics: ASP.NET Core Authentication Security

Use C# Unions With System.Text.Json in ASP.NET Core APIs

C# Corner - Riya Patel

Topics: ASP.NET Core System.Text.Json Web API

Win10 File Explorer ribbon expands slowly when clicking the View tab

Microsoft Tech Community - ArthurWu

When you click the View tab on the File Explorer ribbon, it takes 2 to 4 seconds for the available options to expand and appear. The ribbon appears to freeze briefly before rendering, especially in fo...

Topics: Performance

When my agent is slow or wrong, where do I even look?

YouTube - Microsoft Developer

https://aka.ms/foundry-portal https://aka.ms/InsideMicrosoftFoundryPlaylist Your agent took too long to answer, or it answered with confidence and got it wrong. Was it the model, a tool, or the instru...

Topics: Application Insights Azure

AWS SDK for Java Adds Client Warm-Up to Reduce First-Request Latency

C# Corner - Nidhi Sharma

Topics: Performance

Test Time-Dependent Code Without Waiting

Milan's .NET Weekly - [email protected] (Milan Jovanović)

I have time-dependent code in my application that I need to test. An invitation that expires after five minutes is a good example: I want to check the deadline…

Topics: Test-Driven Development Unit Testing

How to wipe Android phone before trade in or selling?

Microsoft Tech Community - Jokse

Before trading in or selling my Android. I want to make sure that my personal messages and other private information are completely removed from the device. I have been researching how to wipe Android...

Topics: Security

Concurrency vs Parallelism

C# Corner - Mariem Moalla

Topics: C# Performance

Why is my display fuzzy and blurry but the mouse and keyboard still work?

Microsoft Tech Community - VenusAurora

Why does my Surface Pro 4's screen suddenly look fuzzy or almost blurry, as if there's some weird motion artifact on it, while the mouse and keyboard still respond normally? It doesn't show up in scre...

Architecting Robust ASP.NET Core Applications with Clean and Onion Architecture

C# Corner - Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Topics: ASP.NET Core Clean Architecture Design Patterns

Bringing Native AOT to the Aspire dashboard

Microsoft Dev Blogs - James Newton-King

Developers love the Aspire dashboard for viewing real-time telemetry and state of their apps. It's easy to use and automatically collects telemetry from Aspire apps. We want to build on that experienc...

Topics: .NET Aspire Native AOT OpenTelemetry

I’ve decided to learn .NET.

Medium - Sharon lelo

Not “watch a few tutorials and add .NET to my CV” learn .NET.

Turn Meeting Transcripts into Project Plans with GitHub Copilot Agents | MVP Unplugged

YouTube - Microsoft Developer

Welcome to the next MVP Unplugged, where Microsoft MVPs share real-world projects and insights from the field! In this episode, host Justin Garrett sits down with Microsoft MVP Mahmoud A. Atallah to e...

Topics: GitHub Copilot

JCOReflector: bringing .NET APIs to the JVM — and now with experimental generics

Medium - Mario Mastrodicasa

A real CLR inside a JVM process, with the .NET API surface exposed as Java (and, by extension, Scala, Kotlin, and Clojure)

Prompts in MCP Servers

YapCast – Jesse Liberty

TL;DR Prompts allow you to manage the exact instructions your chat models receive and let apps pick those instructions at runtime. That’s the core value of “prompts” in the Model Context Protocol (MCP...

AB-900T00-ENU-PowerPoint_01 - slide 4 is wrong

Microsoft Tech Community - Antonie

  This is slide 4 and it has the bulletpoints from Module 2: Explore Microsoft 365 security foundations (also seen on slide 14) But the slide is for Module 1 and should have the bulletpoints as s...

How Can My PC Freeze Right After I Say “It Finally Works”?

Microsoft Tech Community - Micahon

The PC freezes completely the exact moment I say out loud that it finally works, as if it heard me and decided to punish my confidence. I need help understanding whether this is pure coincidence, a th...

Build a Local Test Pipeline for Apigee Proxies With GitHub Actions

C# Corner - Vivek Kumar

Topics: GitHub Actions

Bring agentic reasoning to Python function apps with Azure Functions Agent bindings (preview)

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Victoria Hall

Azure Functions applications already have a strong model for event-driven work: a trigger starts the function, bindings connect it to other services, and application code validates input and controls ...

Topics: Azure Azure Functions

GitHub Now Counts Draft Pull Requests Toward Repository Limits

C# Corner - Aarav Patel

Topics: GitHub

How to stop passing UserId through every layer

Medium - Alex Khanuckaev

Using DI to clean up deep call chains in ASP.NET Core

Topics: ASP.NET Core Authorization

AI Development on Windows: from PyTorch and llama.cpp to Windows ML

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Anastasiya Tarnouskaya

Today we are highlighting improvements across a few key open-source projects many of you already use, as well as updates to Windows ML. To empower developers, we must support the broad range of tools ...

Topics: ML.NET

Harness Engineering Is the New Bottleneck, Not the Model

Medium - Ali Süleyman TOPUZ

Eleven coding agents, about four million lines of source, and what a .NET developer should take from it