Azure APIs Observability and Messaging

Announcing Public Preview for Azure Cosmos DB in Fabric Database Hub!

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Jai Maldonado

Azure Cosmos DB support in Fabric Database Hub is now available in public preview. For the first time, Azure Cosmos DB customers can discover and monitor their accounts from Database Hub alongside oth...

Topics: Azure Cosmos DB

How to Add Rate Limiting to ASP.NET Core APIs

C# Corner

Learn how to configure and apply ASP.NET Core rate limiting policies, choose limiter algorithms, and return HTTP 429 responses for excessive API requests.

Topics: ASP.NET Core REST API Security

Azure SDK Release (September 2026)

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Justin Bettencourt

Thank you for your interest in the new Azure SDKs! We release new features, improvements, and bug fixes every month. Subscribe to our Azure SDK Blog RSS Feed to get notified when a new release is avai...

Topics: Azure

SOLID Principles in C#: A Beginner-Friendly Guide with Real-World Examples

Medium

💥 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 — 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁…

Topics: C# Solid Principles

Enhancing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine lifecycle

Microsoft Azure - The Microsoft Azure Team

Our Virtual Machine Lifecycle policy guides how we manage these transitions, giving Azure customers transparency, predictability, and guidance. The post Enhancing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine lifec...

Topics: Azure

Azure SQL Migration: How to Assess SQL Server Before Moving to Azure

C# Corner - Skant Gupta

PENDING REVIEW: MICROSOFT ARTICLE UNRETRIEVABLE (INSUFFICIENT FULL TEXT)

Topics: Azure SQL Server

SMS Option for 2FA unavailable

Microsoft Tech Community - Cheesewaj

PENDING REVIEW: MICROSOFT ARTICLE UNRETRIEVABLE (HTTP 403). Hello, My mother is currently having issues with 2-factor authentication for resetting her Windows account password, with a message coming u...

Topics: Authentication

An introduction to Compact Binary Object Notation (CBOR) in .NET

Andrew Lock | .NET Escapades

In this post I introduce CBOR as a JSON alternative, and show how to use the System.Formats.Cbor NuGet package to read and write CBOR encoded data

Topics: C#

How to Trace a Slow API Request with OpenTelemetry in .NET

C# Corner

Configure OpenTelemetry tracing in an ASP.NET Core Web API to trace incoming requests, outgoing HTTP calls, and custom operations when investigating slow responses.

Topics: ASP.NET Core OpenTelemetry Performance

Clean Architecture in ASP.NET Core: What Belongs in Each Layer, and Why?

Medium

Understanding the responsibilities of each layer, the direction of dependencies, and the engineering decisions behind maintainable .NET…

Topics: ASP.NET Core Clean Architecture

Microsoft Shows C# Developers How to Bring Their Own Models to GitHub Copilot SDK

Visual Studio Magazine

A new .NET sample demonstrates how developers can use Microsoft Foundry or other AI model providers with GitHub Copilot's agent runtime.

Topics: C# GitHub Copilot

.NET: I didn’t write this Excel formula engine. Here is why I trust it anyway

Medium

Disclosure: SharpCell’s code was written by Claude Code, with me directing it. This article was drafted with Claude too, and edited by me…

Topics: C#

Understanding CancellationToken in C# and ASP.NET Core Web API

C# Corner

Learn how to use CancellationToken in ASP.NET Core Web API to stop abandoned requests, cancel EF Core queries, and handle request cancellation efficiently.

Topics: ASP.NET Core C# EF Core

Building Real-Time App in .NET with REPR

C# Corner

Building Real-Time App in .NET with REPR WebSockets.Otp is inspired by REPR (Request-Endpoint-Response) principles and trying to bring the same elegance from Minimal APIs, FastEndpoints, or MediatR to...

Topics: C#

One Intent, Many Channels and Providers

Medium

Utilize your communications service to manage the content of your communications while also being able to decide on channel providers

Topics: Design Patterns

gRPC vs. REST in .NET: When to Use Which

Medium

Use REST for public, browser-facing, and third-party APIs, and gRPC for internal, high-throughput service-to-service communication. Most…

Topics: gRPC REST API

Power Automate and Power Apps: When Should You Use Structured Forms?

C# Corner - Saurav Kumar

Bring Your Azure DevOps Repos to Azure SRE Agent Plugins

Microsoft Tech Community - Dalibor_Kovacevic

PENDING REVIEW: MICROSOFT ARTICLE UNRETRIEVABLE (HTTP 403). Plugins package the skills, agents, and connector settings your team wants every SRE Agent to have. A plugin marketplace is a Git repository...

Topics: Azure Azure DevOps

GitHub Is Changing Dependabot Alert Retention: What Gets Deleted?

C# Corner - Riya Patel

Topics: GitHub Security

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

C# Corner

Learn how to implement the Transactional Outbox Pattern in ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core to reliably save business data and publish events without losing messages.

Topics: ASP.NET Core Design Patterns EF Core