Reliable APIs and Durable .NET Workflows

Evaluate More, Spend Less: Batching Microsoft Foundry Evaluators for Efficient Evaluation

Microsoft Tech Community - selshafey

Authors: Salma Elshafey, Ali Mahmoudzadeh, Kayla Ames, Ahmad Qardahji, Vivek Bhadauria, Morteza Ziyadi, April Kwong

A single agent trajectory may ...

Topics: OpenAI

DynamoDB Multi-Region Strong Consistency: How Does It Handle Global Failures?

C# Corner - Nidhi Sharma

Preventing Duplicate Operations in ASP.NET Core APIs

C# Corner - Riya Patel

Learn how to prevent duplicate ASP.NET Core API operations with idempotency keys, durable EF Core storage, request hashes, and database uniqueness constraints.

Topics: ASP.NET Core EF Core Web API

Swap System.Text.Json for REDox in a Minimal API

Khalid Abuhakmeh

Plug the REDox serializer into an ASP.NET Core Minimal API in place of System.Text.Json, then benchmark both to see if the throughput win is real.

Topics: Benchmarking Minimal APIs System.Text.Json

What’s New in .NET 11 and C# 15: Complete Guide With Code

Medium - tech-genius

Union types, closed hierarchies, Runtime Async, Blazor, EF Core 11 and every other change worth knowing, plus why reading the docs beats…

Topics: C#

How to Return Large JSON Responses in ASP.NET Core Without Loading Everything into Memory

C# Corner

Learn how to stream large JSON responses in ASP.NET Core with IAsyncEnumerable, Entity Framework Core, cancellation, and memory-conscious API design.

Topics: ASP.NET Core EF Core Web API

Dew Drop - October 6, 2026 (#4764)

Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Top Links UWP and WinUI 3 apps: UI testing with MSTest (Amaury Levé) Hello, Aspire 13.6 (Maddy Montaquila) Ink comes to WinUI 3 (Pranav Gupta) Voice agents in Foundry Agent Service: architecture, trus...

Topics: .NET Aspire Unit Testing

C# 15 Union Types: Build Serializable Workflows

Khalid Abuhakmeh

Build a C# 15 union workflow on .NET 11: one Next method, typed inputs, exhaustive results, and JSON state you can save and rehydrate.

Topics: C# System.Text.Json

Keeping API Pagination Consistent While Records Change

C# Corner - Vivek Kumar

Learn how record changes cause offset pagination duplicates and gaps, and implement stable cursor-based pagination in ASP.NET Core with Entity Framework Core.

Topics: ASP.NET Core EF Core Web API

Implementing Push Notifications in .NET MAUI for iOS

C# Corner - Delpin Susai Raj

Configure APNS push notifications in a .NET MAUI iOS app, including Apple Developer setup, entitlements, permission requests, device-token registration, and notification handling.

Topics: .NET MAUI

Durable Task in the Real World: What Problems Does It Actually Solve?

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Tamir Dresher

Five practical examples of when durable execution makes sense, when it doesn’t, and what it means for AI agents. Durable Task raises an important question: This all looks interesting, but what are the...

Concurrency & Asynchronous Programming in .NET: Mastering Safe Scale

C# Corner - Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Learn safe .NET concurrency patterns using SemaphoreSlim, bounded channels, Parallel.ForEachAsync, and BackgroundService to prevent deadlocks, memory pressure, and thread-pool starvation.

Topics: Performance

How to Use the Transactional Outbox Pattern in .NET to Avoid Lost Messages

C# Corner

Learn how to implement the transactional outbox pattern in .NET with Entity Framework Core to reliably save business data and publish events without lost messages.

Topics: EF Core Event Sourcing

The Fastest C# Code in a Benchmark Lost the Real-World API Test - HackerNoon

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The Fastest C# Code in a Benchmark Lost the Real-World API Test    HackerNoon

Topics: Benchmarking Performance Web API

EF Core Optimization Guide: A Step-By-Step Guide to Faster Queries

Medium - Anton Martyniuk

“EF Core is slow, don’t use it.” Continue reading on CodeX »

Topics: EF Core Performance

Durable Agents in .NET: Kill the Process and See What Survives

Medium - Ali Süleyman TOPUZ

I have a habit with any framework that claims “durable” or “resilient” in its release notes. I find the process ID and kill it. Not a…

Aurora PostgreSQL and Iceberg: How to Query Lake Data Without ETL

C# Corner - Nidhi Sharma

Topics: PostgreSQL

1B row vector search in less than a second with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale | Data Exposed

YouTube - Microsoft Developer

Learn about vector indexing in Microsoft SQL from the PM and engineering team. ✅ Chapters: 0:00 Intro to Product Management and Engineering vector team 1:13 What things were customers asking for. Exam...

Topics: SQL Server

Spanner Omni: When Does a Distributed Database Need to Run Outside Google Cloud?

C# Corner - Saurav Kumar

Microsoft Foundry: From Agents to Automation with Routines

Medium

Your agent shouldn’t wait for someone to type. Let’s run it on a schedule, at a fixed time, or when an assigned GitHub issue lands.Continue reading on Data Science Collective »

Topics: GitHub OpenAI

Am I paying for a giant model I don't need?

YouTube - Microsoft Developer

https://aka.ms/foundry-portal https://aka.ms/InsideMicrosoftFoundryPlaylist Model Router routes to the best model for the task. But, before you switch, you'll want to know: will it save me money on my...

Topics: OpenAI

Title Plan Update - October 2, 2026

Microsoft Tech Community - anbordianu

🗂️ October 2, 2026 - Title Plan Now Available

Access the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at  Read article

Embeddings in AI: How Machines Understand Meaning

Medium - Chaudhariparesh

When we read a sentence, we understand its meaning — not just the individual words.

Topics: OpenAI

Lesson 1: What Exactly Is .NET?

Medium - Sharon lelo

If I asked you:

Topics: .NET Core

EF Core Cartesian Explosion: How a Single .Include() Almost Crashed Production

Medium - Nikola Perisic

How one EF Core .Include() multiplied our SQL rows into timeouts, and the split queries and guardrails that stop it for good.

Topics: EF Core Performance