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Thursday February 5th

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.NET Framework 3.5 Moves to Standalone Deployment in new versions of Windows - .NET Blog

An announcement of .NET Framework 3.5 servicing updates on new versions of Windows.

Wednesday February 4th

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Your Idempotent Code Is Lying To You

Idempotent handlers aren't automatically safe. Here's why "idempotent" can still mean duplicate side effects, and what p...

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Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (February) - Visual Studio Blog

Discover the February roadmap for AI in Visual Studio, with improvements in reliability and integrations for better perf...

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Winter 2026 Runs

I did a reasonably good job running on my treadmill throughout the fall of 2025, in preparation for my second summit of ...

Tuesday February 3rd

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Exploring the (underwhelming) System.Diagnostics.Metrics source generators: System.Diagnostics.Metrics APIs - Part 2

In this post I explore the source generators shipped in Microsoft.Extensions.Telemetry.Abstractions, explore the code, a...

Monday February 2nd

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Linear Regression with Pseudo-Inverse Training Using JavaScript

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression with pseudo-inverse training imple...

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Maia 200: The AI accelerator built for inference - The Official Microsoft Blog

Today, we're proud to introduce Maia 200, a breakthrough inference accelerator engineered to dramatically improve the ec...

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F# Weekly #5, 2026 - Leveling Up With Lattice

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET AI Essentials - The Core Building Blocks Ex...

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Use client assertions in ASP.NET Core using OpenID Connect, OAuth DPoP and OAuth PAR

This post looks at implement client assertions in an ASP.NET Core application OpenID Connect client using OAuth Demonstr...

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Surviving the Streaming Dungeon with Kafka Queues

Recently, I've been borderline addicted to Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which I cannot recommend enough....

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Building a Greenfield System with the Critter Stack

JasperFx Software works hand in hand with our clients to improve our client's outcomes on software projects using the "C...

Wednesday January 28th

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.NET AI Essentials - The Core Building Blocks Explained - .NET Blog

Learn how Microsoft.Extensions.AI provides a unified API for building intelligent .NET applications with any LLM provide...

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Security Software False Positives

Software developers and end-users are often interested in understanding how to resolve incorrect detections from their a...

Tuesday January 27th

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Visual Studio January Update - Enhanced Editor Experience - Visual Studio Blog

Explore Visual Studio January update for new features that enhance your editor experience and boost your productivity.

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Creating and consuming metrics with System.Diagnostics.Metrics APIs

In this post I provide an introduction to the System.Diagnostics.Metrics API, and show how to create a custom metric and...

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Prepare for Launch: Enrichment Strategies for Apache Flink

Sometimes, when we're getting ready to launch a new Apache Flink job - or even just roll out a major new feature - we ru...

Monday January 26th

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Wolverine Idioms for MediatR Users

The Wolverine community fields a lot of questions from people who are moving to Wolverine from their previous MediatR us...

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Force step up authentication in web applications

The post shows how to implement a step up authorization using the OAuth 2.0 Step Up Authentication Challenge Protocol RF...

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Join Microsoft at NDC London 2026 - Let's Build the Future of .NET Together - .NET Blog

Join Microsoft at NDC London 2026 for expert insights on .NET, Azure, AI, and cloud-native development from top speakers...

Saturday January 24th

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HyperVideo Features

In a previous post, I laid out the basic idea of an AI demonstration project I call HyperVideo. In this short post, I'd ...

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F# Weekly #4, 2026 - F# event / (un)conference in 2026?

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Bringing work context to your code in GitHub Cop...

Thursday January 22nd

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Announcing winapp, the Windows App Development CLI

We are excited to announce the public preview of the Windows App Development CLI (winapp), a new open-source c

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Essential Programmer Utilities

Every two years or so I publish a list of the utilities I find indispensable. It is interesting to me which ones last ye...

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Marten's Aggregation Projection Subsystem

Marten has very rich support for projecting events into read, write, or query models. While there are other capabilities...

Wednesday January 21st

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CoPilot Gets Us Started

In yesterday's post I described the project I want to build: HyperVideo. This morning I created a new Blazor application...

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Catching Up with Recent Wolverine Releases

Wolverine has had a very frequent release cadence the past couple months as community contributions, requests from Jaspe...

Tuesday January 20th

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Monday January 19th

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Fundamentals of AI

I'm studying for the Fundamentals of AI certification test by Microsoft. You would think this would be pretty easy (bein...