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Friday October 3rd

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

Unveil the roadmap for AI in Visual Studio. Learn about new features and agent integrations designed to streamline your ...

Thursday October 2nd

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VS Live! Orlando - Your Ultimate Learning Adventure - Visual Studio Blog

Join Visual Studio Live! Orlando, Nov 16-21, 2025. Hands-on labs, .NET & AI sessions, and up to $900 subscriber savings....

Wednesday October 1st

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Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer - .NET Blog

Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview) unifies agent creation, orchestration, tooling, hosting, and observability so any .N...

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The $150 Secret Hiding in Plain Sight - Visual Studio Blog

Unlock the hidden $150+ monthly value in your Visual Studio subscription! Discover how developers can access free Azure ...

Tuesday September 30th

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Visual Studio September Update - profiler agent, app modernization, and more - Visual Studio Blog

The September 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available, with fully integrated and game-changing agen...

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Celebrating Marten's 10th Birthday!

To the best of my recollection and internet sleuthing today, development on Marten started in October of 2015 after my t...

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Publishing NuGet packages from GitHub actions the easy way with Trusted Publishing

In this post I describe how you can use nuget.org's new Trusted Publishing feature to publish NuGet packages from a GitH...

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Visual Studio September Update - profiler agent, app modernization, and more - Visual Studio Blog

The September 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available, with fully integrated and game-changing agen...

Monday September 29th

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Leader Election and Virtual Actors in Wolverine

A JasperFx Software client was asking recently about the features for software controlled load balancing and "sticky" ag...

Sunday September 28th

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F# Weekly #39, 2025 - amplifyingfsharp.io

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Announcing Aspire 9.5 - .NET Blog Exploring Text...

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Last Sprint to Wolverine 5.0

Little update since the last check in on Wolverine 5.0. I think right now that Wolverine 5.0 hits by next Monday (Octobe...

Saturday September 27th

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Ardalis Fall 2025 Speaking Tour

Join Steve Smith (Ardalis) at 5 major developer conferences in October 2025 across 3 countries. Sessions on Clean Archit...

Friday September 26th

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Preparing Your .NET MAUI Apps for Google Play's 16 KB Page Size Requirement - .NET Blog

Learn about the upcoming 16 KB page size requirement for Google Play and how to ensure your .NET MAUI apps are ready for...

Thursday September 25th

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Lance McCarthy on CoPilot & MCP Servers

Lance takes us through what MCP is, why it is important, and how to work with it. You can reach Lance here: https://bsky...

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Some Thoughts on MS Pulling Back on their "Eventing Framework"

I'll admit that I'd stopped paying attention quite awhile ago and didn't even realize Microsoft was still considering bu...

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Announcing Aspire 9.5 - .NET Blog

Aspire 9.5 adds the preview 'aspire update' command, single-file AppHost, richer CLI and dashboard UX, and new integrati...

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You Don't Need to Use Akka.HealthChecks Any More

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Announcing Aspire 9.5 - .NET Blog

Aspire 9.5 adds the preview 'aspire update' command, single-file AppHost, richer CLI and dashboard UX, and new integrati...

Wednesday September 24th

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Exploring Text-to-Image capabilities in .NET - .NET Blog

Learn how to generate images from natural language prompts using the universal abstractions in Microsoft's extensions fo...

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Little Diary of How JasperFx Helps Our Clients

For any shops using the "Critter Stack" (Marten and Wolverine), JasperFx Software offers support contracts and custom co...

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Exploring Text-to-Image capabilities in .NET - .NET Blog

Learn how to generate images from natural language prompts using the universal abstractions in Microsoft's extensions fo...

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CRUD-Sourcing is why Your Event Streams Are Bloated

Long event streams and the pain that comes with it stem from bad modeling, specifically because of CRUD-Sourcing.

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CRUD-Sourcing is why Your Event Streams Are Bloated

Long event streams and the pain that comes with it stem from bad modeling, specifically because of CRUD-Sourcing.

Tuesday September 23rd

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Implement a secure MCP server using OAuth and Entra ID

The article shows how to implement a secure model context protocol (MCP) server using OAuth and Entra ID. The MCP server...

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sleep-pc: a .NET Native AOT tool to make Windows sleep after a timeout

In this post I describe a small native AOT .NET tool that I built to force a Windows PC to go to sleep after a timer exp...

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sleep-pc: a .NET Native AOT tool to make Windows sleep after a timeout

In this post I describe a small native AOT .NET tool that I built to force a Windows PC to go to sleep after a timer exp...

Monday September 22nd

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Sunday September 21st

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F# Weekly #38, 2025 - .NET STS releases supported for 24 months

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET STS releases supported for 24 months - .NET...