Tuesday October 15th

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Trace sampling in SerilogTracing

Sampling in SerilogTracing is taking shape. If you haven't heard of SerilogTracing, that's not surprising - it's a brand...
55 views

Safety and simplicity with LINQ: Working with the result pattern - Part 2

In this post I show how to clean up unreadable Switch()-based result pattern code using LINQ query syntax, giving both r...
32 views

What's new in System.Text.Json in .NET 9 - .NET Blog

An overview of all new .NET 9 features in System.Text.Json for developers.

Monday October 14th

112 views

Content-Blocking in Manifest v3

I've written about selectively blocking content in browsers several times over the last two decades. In this post, I don...
110 views

Reboot!

This site has been quiet for a few months while I finish up my book (.NET APIs with C#). I'm happy to reboot both the bl...
89 views

Catch the highlights from Azure Developers - .NET Aspire Day 2024! - .NET Blog

Watch the top sessions on demand for insights and practical guidance on building distributed applications with .NET Aspi...
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Catch the highlights from Azure Developers - .NET Aspire Day 2024! - .NET Blog

Watch the top sessions on demand for insights and practical guidance on building distributed applications with .NET Aspi...

Sunday October 13th

138 views

F# Weekly #41, 2024 - .NET 9 RC2, Fesh and AI Extensions

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 is now available! - ....

Thursday October 10th

152 views

Webcam randomly pausing in OBS, Discord, and websites - LSVCam and TikTok Studio

I use my webcam constantly for streaming and I'm pretty familiar with all the ...

Wednesday October 9th

328 views

.NET 8 vs .NET 9: What's the Difference and Should you Migrate?

.NET 8 vs 9: What's new and should you migrate? We explore the features and improvements in .NET 8 and 9 to help you mak...
204 views

Web-Queue-Worker Architecture Style for Scaling

Web-Queue-Worker is an excellent architecture pattern you can regardless of Monolith or Microservices for scaling out.
176 views

Easier localization with the new resource (.resx) manager - Visual Studio Blog

Learn how to use the new Resource Explorer in Visual Studio 2022 to view, edit, and manage resources in .NET apps, with ...

Tuesday October 8th

184 views

Implementing ASP.NET Core Automatic Span (Activity) Linking for Internal Redirects with Middleware on .NET 9 - Code with Steve

In this post, I focus on a middleware technique to add span links between request traces on ASP.NET Core during internal...
181 views

Replacing Exceptions-as-flow-control with the result pattern: Working with the result pattern - Part 1

In this post I discuss why you might want to use the result pattern, demonstrate it with a simple example and show a naï...
174 views

.NET 9 Release Candidate 2 is now available! - .NET Blog

Try out the latest features in .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 across the .NET SDK, libraries, runtime, ASP.NET Core, SignalR...
150 views

Introducing Microsoft.Extensions.AI Preview - Unified AI Building Blocks for .NET - .NET Blog

We are excited to introduce the Microsoft.Extensions.AI package available in preview today. This new package provides a ...
122 views

.NET and .NET Framework October 2024 servicing releases updates - .NET Blog

A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for October 2024.
119 views

Monsters Weekly 273 - GitHub and Azure Boards

Let's see how you can use GitHub for repositories together with Azure Boards for issue tracking. The integration is actu...

Monday October 7th

182 views

Preventing double clicks in Blazor components

Guard against duplicate events in your Blazor app
146 views

Microsoft Entra ID App-to-App security architecture

This article looks at the different setups when using App-to-App security with Microsoft Entra ID (OAuth client credenti...
129 views

Accelerate C++ Debugging with Enhanced Conditional Breakpoints - Visual Studio Blog

Learn how to debug C++ faster with enhanced conditional breakpoints performance in Visual Studio 2022.

Saturday October 5th

178 views

F# Weekly #40, 2024 - Fable 4.22

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Comparison between different Async types | IcedT...

Friday October 4th

434 views

.NET's ActivityListener sampling API

Distributed tracing can generate a lot of data, and sampling is the most established method to keep data volumes managea...

Thursday October 3rd

393 views

Visualizing the Serilog 4.1 batch retry algorithm

This is a quick post exploring how Serilog 4.1 (currently in preview) schedules retries when logging fails.
209 views

Attack Techniques: Encrypted Archives

Tricking a user into downloading and opening malware is a common attack technique, and defenders have introduced securit...

Wednesday October 2nd

371 views

Serilog fallback sinks

Currently in preview, Serilog 4.1 adds support for falling back to a second sink when the first sink fails. This scenari...
251 views

Keep your project structure simple!

How should you structure your project? Keep it simple as possible until you need to add patterns or concepts to tackle c...
231 views

An Efficient Dictionary for IPAddress Tracking using .NET 9 with AlternateLookup and IAlternateEqualityComparer - Code with Steve

n this post, I demonstrate enhancements to collections in .NET 9 and C# 13 with IAlternateEqualityComparer and Alternate...
175 views

Discover Hidden Insights with Profiler's External Code Decompilation - Visual Studio Blog

Learn how to use the new auto-decompilation feature in Visual Studio 2022 profiler to analyze and optimize the performan...

Tuesday October 1st

227 views

Announcing the stable release of the official OpenAI library for .NET - .NET Blog

Discover the stable release of the official OpenAI library for .NET, empowering developers to integrate cutting-edge AI ...