Sunday December 21st

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Digital Authentication and Identity validation

This post looks at authentication and identity validation and describes what should be validated and some of the concept...
64 views

F# Weekly #51, 2025 - WebSharper 10 & Fidelity Framework

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News WebSharper 10.0 Aspire 13.1 - Our holiday gift t...
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New Book: Build And Deploy Apps Using Azure Developer CLI By Chris Pietschmann | Build5Nines

I am excited to announce the release of my new book, Build and Deploy Apps using Azure Developer CLI, a practical, hands...

Saturday December 20th

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Joe Dluzen on Azure Functions & Durable Functions

I'm happy to announce the start of a new series on creating APIs with C# and .NET-beginning with a series of posts, vide...

Thursday December 18th

230 views

2025 in review: How we elevated the Microsoft Store experience

2025 was a meaningful year for the Microsoft Store on Windows, with more than 250 million monthly users discovering a Mi...

Wednesday December 17th

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Azure updates for partners: December 2025

Azure's December 2025 partner updates highlight new AI‑powered tools, governance capabilities, and cloud innovations tha...
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Critter Stack Roadmap for 2026

I normally write this out in January, but I'm feeling like now is a good time to get this out as some of it is in flight...

Tuesday December 16th

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Microsoft.Testing.Platform Now Fully Supported in Azure DevOps - .NET Blog

Azure DevOps enhanced support for Microsoft.Testing.Platform, from running tests to publishing results!
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Prompt Noise Is Killing Your AI Accuracy: How To Optimize Context For Grounded Output | Build5Nines

The most common reason an AI system "hallucinates" in production isn't that the model is dumb. It's that we're drowning ...
118 views

Why "Microservices" Debates Miss the Point

Most of the complaints and pain from microservices is because people don't acknowledge the coupling in their system.
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Creating a .NET CLR profiler using C# and NativeAOT with Silhouette

In this post I look at how to create a simple .NET profiler. But instead of using C++, the profiler uses C# and NativeAO...
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Debugging, but Without the Drama (A Visual Studio 2026 Story) - Visual Studio Blog

Understand how the Visual Studio 2026 Debugger accelerates your workflow, making debugging less frustrating and more eff...

Monday December 15th

129 views

How to Build iOS Widgets with .NET MAUI - .NET Blog

Build professional iOS widgets with .NET MAUI, from static displays to interactive widgets.

Sunday December 14th

128 views

F# Weekly #50, 2025 - Making of A Programming Language

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET 10 Networking Improvements - .NET Blog Micr...

Wednesday December 10th

154 views

Streamlining your Git workflow with Visual Studio 2026 - Visual Studio Blog

You're a .NET developer with a busy morning, and an Azure DevOps ticket drops: "Login endpoint 500s under load." You've ...

Tuesday December 9th

304 views

.NET and .NET Framework December 2025 servicing releases updates - .NET Blog

A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for December 2025.
216 views

Trying out the Zed editor on Windows for .NET and Markdown

In this post I try out Zed on Windows to see if it can replace my VS Code usages for quick edits of .NET projects and wr...
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Implementing Cross-Platform In-App Billing in .NET MAUI Applications - .NET Blog

Learn how to implement in-app purchases in your .NET MAUI apps with our new cross-platform billing sample for Android, i...

Monday December 8th

203 views

.NET 10 Networking Improvements - .NET Blog

Introducing new networking features in .NET 10 including HTTP space, WebSockets, security and more!
176 views

Aggregates in DDD: Model Rules, Not Relationships

Aggregates in DDD aren't about loading every related entity. They're about modeling rules, not relationships.
157 views

Microsoft Learn MCP Server Elevates Development - .NET Blog

Explore how the Learn MCP server enhances the developer experience with Copilot, showcase practical examples, and provid...

Sunday December 7th

145 views

F# Weekly #49, 2025 - Oxpecker 2, fsi-mcp, LSP & AOC in F#

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET Conf 2025 Recap - Celebrating .NET 10, Visu...

Saturday December 6th

189 views

How the Microsoft SQL team is investing in SQL tools and experiences - Microsoft SQL Server Blog

Explore Microsoft's SQL tooling updates, AI integration, and roadmap for SSMS, VS Code, and DevOps innovations. Learn mo...

Friday December 5th

173 views

"Classic" .NET Domain Events with Wolverine and EF Core

I was helping a new JasperFx Software client this week to best integrate a Domain Events strategy into their new Wolveri...

Thursday December 4th

186 views

Unlock GitHub Copilot's Full Potential: Why Every Repo Needs An AGENTS.md File | Build5Nines

AI-assisted development has rapidly transformed how engineers write code, collaborate, and ship software. GitHub Copilot...
168 views

Security Surfaces

An important concept in Usable Security is whether a given UI represents a "security surface." Formally, a security surf...
164 views

.NET Conf 2025 Recap - Celebrating .NET 10, Visual Studio 2026, AI, Community, & More - .NET Blog

NET Conf 2025 is over, but you can catch up with all the announcements and fun with video recordings, slides, demos, and...

Wednesday December 3rd

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AutoMapper 16.0.0 and MediatR 14.0.0 Released with .NET 10 Support

With the release of .NET, we've released updated packages of AutoMapper and MediatR targeting .NET 10 (and all supported...
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Introducing Data Ingestion Building Blocks (Preview) - .NET Blog

Announcing the preview of open, modular data ingestion building blocks in .NET, empowering developers to build scalable ...

Tuesday December 2nd

157 views

Recent updates to NetEscapades.EnumGenerators: [EnumMember] support, analyzers, and bug fixes

In this post I describe some recent changes to the NetEscapades.EnumGenerators source generator, including support for [...