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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# Corner 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
Medium 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
Chris Pietschmann 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
Microsoft Dev Blogs 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
Microsoft Dev Blogs Issue #412
A broad look at the dev workflow around VS, Copilot, and gaming tooling.
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Fetching GitHub content from C#
elmah.io Blog - .NET Technical tutorials/guides and new features 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# Corner 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
Medium Issue #269
A reliable .NET Core boilerplate article promises more than scaffolding: testability, shipping discipline, and iteration habits.
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How Long Should You Keep Closed Dependabot Alerts?
C# Corner - Riya Patel Issue #574
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Dew Drop - September 28, 2026 (#4758)
Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft Issue #572
Top Links AG-UI Protocol now has a first-class .NET SDK (Daniel Roth) Syncfusion Releases First Set of Open-Source Blazor Controls (Syncfusion Team) GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build cust...
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Visual Studio September Update - Power Your Workflow with Your Model
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Mark Downie Issue #571
The best LLM in Visual Studio is the one you choose. This month's update puts that idea front and center: pick the model that fits how you work, then use it everywhere GitHub Copilot already helps you...
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Bring Your Own Model to the GitHub Copilot SDK with C#
Microsoft Dev Blogs Issue #571
Hi, I know, I keep coming back to the same theme on this blog: agent harnesses. In Build Your Own AI Agent Harness in C# we built one from scratch. In
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GitHub Is Changing Dependabot Alert Retention: What Gets Deleted?
C# Corner - Riya Patel Issue #570
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How to build Power Automate flow using MCP Server with Github Copilot
C# Corner - Parthiv Suthar Issue #569
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🎖️ Captain's Training: Master Copilot Studio | Use the New Harness, MCPs and More
YouTube - Microsoft Developer Issue #568
Get started with Microsoft Copilot Studio and learn the fundamentals of building custom agents for your organisation. We’ll explore the new GitHub Copilot harness, designed for reasoning-heavy, multi-...
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GitHub Copilot Computer Use: What Can AI Actually Do Inside a Desktop App?
C# Corner - Aarav Patel Issue #568
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Microsoft Foundry: From Agents to Automation with Routines
Medium Issue #567
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 »
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AI Security Agents: How GitHub Found 24 Android Vulnerabilities
C# Corner - Nidhi Sharma Issue #566
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GitHub Adds More CVE Data to the Security Advisory API
C# Corner - Aarav Patel Issue #565
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GitHub Now Counts Draft Pull Requests Toward Repository Limits
C# Corner - Aarav Patel Issue #564
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Scheduled PDF and Excel report emails in ASP.NET Core with Quartz.NET
Medium - Dotnet Report Builder Issue #563
By Razi Syed. Sample code: github.com/dotnetreport/dotnetreport-scheduled-reports
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Multi-tenant reporting in ASP.NET Core: row-level security your users can’t bypass
Medium - Dotnet Report Builder Issue #559
By Razi Syed. Sample code for this article: github.com/dotnetreport/dotnetreport-multitenant-rls
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GitHub Copilot Agent Mode: How to Control What an AI Coding Agent Can Do
C# Corner - Aarav Patel Issue #557
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GitHub App Tokens Are Getting Longer: What Should Developers Check?
C# Corner - Aarav Patel Issue #555
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BlogWriter Goes Open-Source
YapCast – Jesse Liberty Issue #554
Today I formally opened up my demo program BlogWriter as an open-source program. To do so, I added an MIT license and began taking contributions. Really that was about all there was to it, but it felt...
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Spec-Driven Development comes to Azure Cosmos DB: The First Database Extension for GitHub Spec Kit
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Theo van Kraay Issue #553
AI coding agents can write much of an application's code, but developers still need to review the decisions behind it. For a Cosmos DB application, that includes choosing partition keys, modeling acce...
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Copilot CLI
YapCast – Jesse Liberty Issue #551
tl;drGitHub Copilot CLI is a terminal-native, agentic coding assistant that brings GitHub Copilot’s AI into your shell. Instead of only offering completions in an editor, Copilot CLI lets you ask natu...
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Add self-service ad hoc reporting to an ASP.NET Core app (without writing every report yourself)
Medium - Dotnet Report Builder Issue #550
By Razi Syed. Sample code: github.com/dotnetreport/dotnetreport-aspnetcore-quickstart
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Build an interview coach app with the GitHub Copilot SDK
Microsoft Developer Issue #548
An interview coach has to do more than ask questions. It needs to read a resume, follow up on an incomplete answer, and save enough context to give useful feedback at the end. Some of that work is con...
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Steering the Vibe: Worktrees
stafford williams Issue #547
After failing a number of times to implement worktrees, I got over my frustration and made it happen. The result was a huge productivity multiplier, though not without solving some tricky problems. In...
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What I Learned During My First Software Engineering Internship
Medium Issue #544
Lessons from working with C#, SQL, APIs, Git, and real development workflows at Comtrade System Integration.
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GitHub Specify
YapCast – Jesse Liberty Issue #543
tl;drGitHub Specify (commonly seen as the specify CLI plus the GitHub Spec Kit) is a lightweight toolkit and workflow designed to make Spec‑Driven Development (SDD) practical. It scaffolds a spec‑firs...