API Reliability Authentication and Async Performance

Real-Time Factory Dashboards with SignalR, .NET and Flutter Cubits

Medium - Hammad Tariq

How we pushed live machine status to web and mobile, and the mistakes that only showed up once the dashboard stayed open all day.

Topics: SignalR

How to Add Rate Limiting to ASP.NET Core APIs

C# Corner

Configure ASP.NET Core API rate limiting with built-in middleware, endpoint policies, HTTP 429 responses, and fixed, sliding, token bucket, and concurrency limiters.

Topics: ASP.NET Core Security Web API

🌎 Expanding Your Airspace | Extend your Copilot with Plugins, Work IQ Dev Tools and more!

YouTube - Microsoft Developer

Discover the new developer experience for extending Microsoft 365 Copilot with Copilot Plugins and Work IQ Developer Tools (WIQD). See how agents, skills, connectors, and MCP capabilities can come tog...

Topics: GitHub Copilot

Data API builder 2.1.5: JSON and Vector Data Type Support, and More

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Carlos Robles

Data API builder (DAB) 2.1.5 is now available as a stable release, and it is about meeting modern data where it lives: documents next to rows, embeddings next to both. This release brings native suppo...

Topics: Azure REST API

Use multiple schemes in an ASP.NET Core Web application

Software Engineering - damienbod

This article looks at using multiple authentication schemes in an ASP.NET Core web application. I required something like this when migrating a large application to a new identity provider and reducin...

Topics: ASP.NET Core Authentication OAuth

How to Add Passkey Login to an ASP.NET Core Application

C# Corner

Learn how to add passkey login to ASP.NET Core using WebAuthn, including credential storage, registration challenges, authentication verification, and security considerations.

Topics: ASP.NET Core Authentication Security

Bring your plugin to Microsoft Copilot with Work IQ Developer Tools

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Seth T. Bacon, Sébastien Levert, Rachit Kumar Malik

Bring an existing agent plugin into Work IQ Developer Tools (WIQD) and the plugin registry or create a new plugin to utilize the full Microsoft Copilot packaging workflow. A plugin gives Microsoft Cop...

Topics: GitHub Copilot

Surface Keyboard FW Update

Microsoft Tech Community - Ken_Ohrn

PENDING REVIEW: MICROSOFT ARTICLE UNRETRIEVABLE (HTTP 403). Today I got a notification of a firmware update for Surface Pro 12 Inch keyboard. The FW version is now 7.4.139. Can anyone help me find the...

Why Await Inside a Loop Can Make Your Async Code 5x Slower

C# Corner - dhana gani

Learn why awaiting independent async calls in a loop runs them sequentially, and how Task.WhenAll, throttling, and error handling enable safe concurrent execution.

Topics: C# Performance

Questions about the number of views and likes on the post

Microsoft Tech Community - sheraton

PENDING REVIEW: MICROSOFT ARTICLE UNRETRIEVABLE (HTTP 403). What does it mean when I see eye icons under each of my posts with 200 or even 4.3k views? Does it mean how many people have viewed them? Fi...

ThreadPool Starvation in .NET: How Blocking Code Freezes Your API

C# Corner - Mariem Moalla

Learn how blocking calls cause .NET ThreadPool starvation in ASP.NET Core APIs, and how async/await, timeouts, and cancellation prevent request timeouts.

Topics: ASP.NET Core Performance

How to Change JWT Signing Keys Without Breaking Existing API Clients

C# Corner

Learn how to rotate JWT signing keys in ASP.NET Core while validating tokens signed with old and new keys during a secure transition.

Topics: Authentication JWT Security

Azure Cost Estimation: Price AI Workloads Confidently

YouTube - Microsoft Developer

As organizations rapidly adopt AI, understanding pricing isn’t just helpful—it’s essential for building scalable, cost-efficient solutions. In this episode of the Azure Essentials Show, Thomas sits do...

Topics: Azure OpenAI

How KV Cache Routing Can Make LLM Inference Faster

C# Corner - Nidhi Sharma

Topics: OpenAI Performance

The Transactional Outbox Pattern in .NET: Keep Database Updates and Messages in Sync

C# Corner - Riya Patel

Learn how to implement the transactional outbox pattern in .NET to keep database changes and broker messages consistent, including background processing, retries, and duplicate delivery.

Topics: Design Patterns

Use ETags in ASP.NET Core to Prevent Lost Updates

C# Corner - Bhavya Singh

Learn how to use ETags, If-Match headers, and EF Core rowversion tokens in ASP.NET Core to detect stale updates and prevent lost data changes.

Topics: ASP.NET Core EF Core REST API

.NET Interview Questions and Answers: A Complete Guide with Real-World C# Examples

Medium - Pavan pitthdiya

Understand the .NET runtime, C# fundamentals, asynchronous programming, ASP.NET Core, microservices, performance optimization, and Entity…

Topics: ASP.NET Core C# .NET Core

GitHub Adds More CVE Data to the Security Advisory API

C# Corner - Aarav Patel

Topics: GitHub Security

Windows 11 taskbar

Microsoft Tech Community - Brinrac

PENDING REVIEW: MICROSOFT ARTICLE UNRETRIEVABLE (HTTP 403). Having used the Mac and Windows for years it would be good if the Windows Taskbar could be made like the Mac Dockbar so you can use the full...

How to Find Time Zone Bugs in C# Applications

C# Corner - Bhavya Singh

Learn how to prevent and diagnose C# time zone bugs using DateTime, DateTimeOffset, UTC storage, TimeZoneInfo, and daylight saving time checks.

Topics: C#

Updates to Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Dan Hellem

We announced the public preview of Copilot Code Review for Azure Repos in late August. Since then, we have continued to make improvements, fix bugs, and add new features. We wanted to share an update ...

Topics: Azure DevOps GitHub Copilot

Resumable File Uploads: Let Users Continue After a Network Failure

C# Corner - Saurav Kumar

Learn how to build resumable file uploads in ASP.NET Core using upload sessions, chunk offsets, durable state, and validation after network failures.

Topics: ASP.NET Core Web API

FrozenDictionary in C#: What If Your Dictionary Never Changed?

Medium - Ravikumar Makwana

We use Dictionary everywhere. It’s fast. It’s familiar. It works. But here’s an interesting question: “What if your…

Topics: C# Performance

Huge amount of spam/ junk- bets way to stop?

Microsoft Tech Community - famreeksfam

PENDING REVIEW: MICROSOFT ARTICLE UNRETRIEVABLE (HTTP 403). HI group, I have been using Outlook for ages and my mail goes mostly to junk as it may be a reply to a company that Ive emailed seeking an a...

Building Real-Time App in .NET with REPR

Medium - RandyLahey

WebSockets.Otp is inspired by REPR (Request-Endpoint-Response) principles and trying to bring the same elegance from Minimal APIs…

Topics: Minimal APIs