Friday April 25th

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Attack Techniques: Fake Literally Everything!

The team recently got a false-negative report on the SmartScreen phishing filter complaining that we fail to block first...
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Big Thinkers: Douglas Crockford - The Man Behind JSON And JSLint | Build5Nines

Douglas Crockford is a renowned figure in the programming world, celebrated for his pivotal contributions to JavaScript ...

Wednesday April 23rd

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PyTorch Arm native builds now available for Windows

We are excited to announce the availability of Arm native builds of PyTorch for Windows! Until now, developers and resea...
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Semantic Search PDF Files Locally Using .NET / C# And Build5Nines.SharpVector | Build5Nines

The ability to extract and semantically search through unstructured documents is becoming not just a convenience, but a ...
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Building Real‑Time iOS Apps with SignalR: Introducing the Official Swift Client (Public Preview) - .NET Blog

Introduction Until now, iOS developers who wanted real‑time, bi‑directional communication with SignalR had to rely on co...
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Cloud vs Self-Hosting

Why not self-host using a VPS or dedicated hardware instead of using the cloud? Well, there are a lot of reasons. The cl...

Tuesday April 22nd

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Introducing the AI Dev Gallery: Your Gateway to Local AI Development with .NET - .NET Blog

Discover the new AI Dev Gallery, a Windows application that provides interactive local AI samples, easy model downloads,...
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Going beyond singleton, scoped, and transient lifetimes-tenant, pooled, and drifter

In this post I investigate some 'experimental' dependency injection scopes that provide additional features over Singlet...
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Implement client assertions for OAuth client credential flows in ASP.NET Core

This blog implements client assertions using an OAuth client credential flow in ASP.NET Core. Client assertions provide ...

Monday April 21st

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Extract Text From PDF Files With Python For Use In Generative AI And RAG Solutions | Build5Nines

When building Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) LLM-based solutions, the quality and structure of i...

Sunday April 20th

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Private post | Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen book...
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F# Weekly #16, 2025 - Rider 2025.1 & SqlHydra 3

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News What's New in Rider 2025.1 SqlHydra 3.0.0 Previe...

Friday April 18th

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Claude

There's a new AI kid on the block ( https://claude.ai) and he is very powerful for programming and many other things. At...
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Semantic Search In .NET / C# With Build5Nines.SharpVector | Build5Nines

As developers, we often find ourselves building smarter, more context-aware applications. Whether it's powering a docume...
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Software Innovation: Ruby On Rails - The Framework That Rewired The Web With MVC And Convention | Build5Nines

It wasn't the first web framework. It may not be the flashiest these days in 2025. But Ruby on Rails was revolutionary w...
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Introducing Incrementalist, an Incremental .NET Build Tool for Large Solutions

Reduced Akka.NET's average build time from ~1.25hrs to 15 minutes.

Thursday April 17th

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Toolbox Support for Explicit Assembly References in Windows Forms Out-of-Process Designer - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 17.14 Preview 3 adds Toolbox support for Explicit Assembly References in .NET Framework projects, simplify...
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Preview 2 of the .NET AI Template Now Available - .NET Blog

Preview 2 of the .NET AI Chat Web App template introduces support for .NET Aspire and Qdrant vector database integration...
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Preview 2 of the .NET AI Template Now Available - .NET Blog

Preview 2 of the .NET AI Chat Web App template introduces support for .NET Aspire and Qdrant vector database integration...

Wednesday April 16th

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AutoMapper and MediatR Licensing Update

In my last post, I shared the news that I've decided to take a commercialization route for AutoMapper and MediatR to ens...
175 views

Microservices to Monolith

Want to switch from Microservices to a Monolith? If you can't build microservices, what makes you think you can build a ...
153 views

GitHub Copilot Highlights in Visual Studio 17.14 Preview 3 (Available Now) - Visual Studio Blog

Explore the latest GitHub Copilot updates in Visual Studio 17.14 Preview 3, including a guided walkthrough, next edit su...
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Build MCP Remote Servers with Azure Functions - .NET Blog

Build AI-powered tools quickly using Azure Functions to create remote MCP servers that seamlessly integrate with GitHub ...
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Vibe-coding for security

Recently, there's been a surge in the popularity of trojan clipboard attacks whereby the attacker convinces the user to ...
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Native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in n8n

n8n now comes with built-in support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), adding both MCP Server Trigger and MCP Client node...

Tuesday April 15th

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Join the .NET & C# Teams at Microsoft Build 2025 - .NET Blog

The countdown to Microsoft Build 2025 is on! Join us May 19-22 either in-person in Seattle or online and explore an exci...
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NetEscapades.​AspNetCore.​SecurityHeaders 1.0.0 has been released

In this post I describe the recent major changes to NetEscapades.AspNetCore.SecurityHeaders, a NuGet package for adding ...

Monday April 14th

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Microsoft And Anthropic Collaborate To Develop Official C# SDK For Model Context Protocol | Build5Nines

Microsoft has announced a partnership with Anthropic to develop an official C# Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Mo...
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Calling MCP Servers in C# with Microsoft.Extensions.AI

Mark Heath's Development Blog
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Preview of (Hopefully) Improved Projections in Marten 8

Work is continuing on the "Critter Stack 2025" round of releases, but we have finally got an alpha release of Marten 8 (...