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GitHub for .NET Developers Articles, Tutorials & News
GitHub for .NET Developers articles, tutorials, and news from the DotNetNews archive.
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This DotNetNews topic collects GitHub for .NET developers material from the daily archive. GitHub for .NET Developers shows up when .NET code leaves the laptop and has to run under cloud, container, or CI constraints. The page is for people who already ship C# and need a faster way to find relevant posts.
Expect publisher tutorials, release notes, architecture write-ups, and field notes linked from DotNetNews issues. Start here is a short editorial shortlist for GitHub for .NET Developers; the archive list is chronological and larger. Nothing here claims every article was production-tested by the editors.
Recurring subtopics in recent issues include GitHub C#, open source .NET GitHub, GitHub repos .NET, and github. Secondary angles such as GitHub for .NET developers and GitHub C# appear when the archive actually covered them. Related hubs such as GitHub Actions for .NET and GitHub Copilot for C# and .NET cover adjacent problems.
Each card points at the original publisher URL and the DotNetNews issue that carried it, so you can read the article in context or jump straight to the source.
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Editor picks for GitHub
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GitHub Copilot Workspace for Enterprise Teams: A Complete .NET Guide
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #487
Copilot guidance for larger teams is where the discussion gets practical: planning, review flow, and governance matter more than novelty.
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Stop Copy-Pasting to NuGet: How to Automate Package Publishing via GitHub Actions
muhammadirwanto.medium.com Issue #470
Straightforward automation content, but still valuable; package publishing is exactly the kind of toil GitHub Actions should remove.
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Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy
pietschsoft.com Issue #452
A nice bit of community history that reminds newer developers how code sharing evolved before GitHub became the default.
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Visual Studio March Update - Build Your Own Custom Agents
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #428
This month's Visual Studio update gives you new ways to customize GitHub Copilot.
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Visual Studio at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #412
A broad look at the dev workflow around VS, Copilot, and gaming tooling.
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Fetching GitHub content from C#
blog.elmah.io Issue #341
Fetching GitHub content from C# is a handy pattern for apps that treat repo assets as inputs.
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Creating Your First GitHub Repository
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #319
A beginner-friendly GitHub primer that stays useful because repository basics still matter.
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Don’t Just Build — Test, Ship, and Iterate with a Reliable .NET Core Boilerplate
adilyousaf88.medium.com Issue #269
A reliable .NET Core boilerplate article promises more than scaffolding: testability, shipping discipline, and iteration habits.
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Introducing Saucery.NuGet: Controlled NuGet Upgrades for Modern .NET Repositories
medium.com Issue #503
Keeping NuGet dependencies up to date should be simple.
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The Story of My OpenAI .NET Contribution
medium.com Issue #501
There is a particular kind of silence that surrounds you when you open a large codebase for the first time. Continue reading on Level Up Coding »
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Modernize .NET applications in the GitHub Copilot app
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #495
Upgrading a .NET application isn't a single prompt. Every upgrade begins with understanding your application, evaluating dependencies, planning the work, applying code transformations, fixing build fa...
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Azure DevOps: merging pull requests with conventional commits
johnnyreilly.com Issue #492
How to merge a pull request in Azure DevOps and maintain a git commit history of conventional commits, using the Azure DevOps API and build validations.
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Smuggling .gitignore, .npmrc and friends in npm packages
johnnyreilly.com Issue #491
The npm publish command will not just package up .gitignore and .npmrc files. This post shows how to use zipping and unzipping with postinstall and prepare scripts to include these files into your npm...
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GitHub Copilot Generated Our .NET Tests. It Missed What Mattered Most
medium.com Issue #489
There has been plenty of discussion recently about AI replacing parts of software testing, so we decided to see how far we could actually…
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Building Intelligent NuGet Package Upgrade Assistants with AI
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #488
Leverage AI to build intelligent NuGet package upgrade assistants, simplifying .NET dependency management, reducing risks, and boosting developer productivity.
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GitHub Copilot Workspace for Enterprise Teams: A Complete .NET Guide
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #487
Unlock enterprise .NET development with GitHub Copilot Workspace. Accelerate planning, code generation, and reviews for faster, efficient software delivery.
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Building AI-Powered Release Notes from Git History Using .NET
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #486
Automate release notes with .NET and AI from Git history. Streamline documentation, improve consistency, and save developer time.
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🔴 Let It Cook with Claude Fable 5
youtube.com Issue #477
Join us for Let It Cook as we vibe code with Claude Fable 5 in VS Code, exploring what this new model brings to GitHub Copilot and real-world AI-assisted development workflows. 🔗 Link: https://github...
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Doing More with GitHub Copilot as a .NET Developer
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #474
Want to get more out of your GitHub Copilot experience? Here are some easy ways to get started. The post Doing More with GitHub Copilot as a .NET Developer appeared first on .NET Blog .
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GitHub Copilot Agent for Unit Tests: My Real-World Spargine Experiment
dotnettips.com Issue #473
After experimenting with the GitHub Copilot Agent during the 2026 Microsoft MVP Summit, the author faced numerous challenges, including code deletion, slow performance, and inconsistent adherence to c...
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On .NET Live - Fluent UI Blazor: The next step
youtube.com Issue #471
In this session, Denis and Vincent will show you what is new in the next major version of the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor library. 🔗 Repo: https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-blazor 🎙️ Featuring: M...
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Stop Copy-Pasting to NuGet: How to Automate Package Publishing via GitHub Actions
muhammadirwanto.medium.com Issue #470
If you are still manually compiling, packing, and uploading your NuGet packages, you are burning valuable engineering time on a problem…
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Using Tools with Agents in VS Code
youtube.com Issue #468
Doing More with GitHub Copilot as a .NET Developer
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Don't just settle for the subscription based models!
youtube.com Issue #465
00:00 Intro by bringing your own key (BYOK) to VS Code and GitHub Copilot GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
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Modernizing a Legacy .NET App with GitHub Copilot
youtube.com Issue #465
Starting with a real-world ASP.NET Web Forms application, Krystal demonstrates how GitHub Copilot agents, planning mode, and security assessments can help teams upgrade legacy code, migrate databases,...
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I let GitHub Copilot write all my C# database code for a month
medium.com Issue #461
Here’s what almost broke production.
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The Coding Harness Behind GitHub Copilot in VS Code
code.visualstudio.com Issue #459
What developers actually interact with is the coding harness: the layer that assembles context, exposes tools, runs the agent loop, interprets tool calls, and turns a model's output into something use...
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The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio
visualstudiomagazine.com Issue #458
Simona Liao and Leah Tran, product managers at Microsoft, discuss how GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio has evolved from a code completion tool into an agent-driven development workflow -- and share pra...
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Introducing the VS Code Agents Window (Preview)
youtube.com Issue #458
Learn more about the Agents window in our documentation: http://aka.ms/VSCode/Agents/docs Browse existing issues: https://aka.ms/github/agents-window
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Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy
pietschsoft.com Issue #452
Every once in a while, something from the early days of my software development journey resurfaces and brings with it a flood of memories. Recently, I came across a PlanetSourceCode.com archived GitHu...
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Rock Your Code: I Let AI Build a Visual Studio Extension—Here’s What REALLY Happened
dotnettips.com Issue #449
In March 2026, I challenged GitHub Copilot to build a Visual Studio extension, "Version Sync," from scratch without coding. Despite initial failures and needing extensive feedback, it succee...
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I Wasted 68 Minutes a Day Re-Explaining My Code. Then I Built auto-memory.
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #445
~1,900 lines of Python. Zero dependencies. Saves you an hour a day. GitHub → · pip install auto-memory Now give Copilot CLI enhanced context recall. Point it at
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Context Is Everything: Getting the Most from GitHub Copilot with Joydip Kanjilal
dotnetcore.show Issue #440
Strategic Technology Consultation Services This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium ...