https://dotnetkicks.com/ The latest published stories from DotNetKicks.com en-us DotNetKicks LLC dotnetkicks.com stories/739786 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739786?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/github-copilot-testing-for-dotnet-available-in-visual-studio/ .NET Team https://dotnetkicks.com/@dotnet Visual Studio 18.3 brings GitHub Copilot Testing for .NET, an AI-powered test agent for generating and managing unit tests across your codebase. 2026-02-11T18:11:58Z stories/739775 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739775?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/unlock-language-specific-rich-symbol-context-using-new-find_symbol-tool/ Visual Studio https://dotnetkicks.com/@VisualStudio Refactoring at scale is a time-consuming and error-prone process for developers. In large codebases, developers have relied on manual searches and incremental edits across multiple files to accomplish these tasks. Modern development workflows depend on fast and accurate code navigation to avoid these pitfalls. When developers refactor existing code, explore unfamiliar areas of a large [...] 2026-02-11T15:30:42Z stories/739762 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739762?url=https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/32624 Microsoft Azure https://dotnetkicks.com/@Azure The SQL community is gathering in Atlanta this March for the first‑ever SQLCon, co‑located with FabCon, the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, March 16-20. One registration unlocks both events, giving you access to deep SQL expertise and the latest in Fabric, Power BI, data engineering, real‑time intelligence, and AI. 2026-02-11T13:40:59Z stories/739733 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739733?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-11-preview-1/ Jeff Fritz https://dotnetkicks.com/@csharpfritz Explore .NET 11 Preview 1, now available with updates to the runtime, libraries, and more. Get the details today! 2026-02-10T22:50:03Z stories/739731 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739731?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-and-dotnet-framework-february-2026-servicing-updates/ .NET Team https://dotnetkicks.com/@dotnet A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for February 2026. 2026-02-10T19:09:56Z stories/739676 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739676?url=https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/02/10/accelerating-arm-momentum-in-japan-with-app-assure/ Windows Blogs https://dotnetkicks.com/@windowsblog Worldwide, customers are adopting Arm-powered Copilot+ PCs for the many benefits they provide over traditional PCs. These devices deliver industry-leading performance, outpacing competitors in both every day and demanding workloads, while off 2026-02-10T17:09:53Z stories/739624 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739624?url=https://damienbod.com/2026/02/09/isolate-the-swiyu-public-beta-management-apis-using-yarp/ damienbod https://dotnetkicks.com/@damien_bod This post looks at hardening the security for the swiyu public beta infrastructure. The generic containers provide both management APIs and wallet APIs which support the OpenID for Verifiable Presentations 1.0 specification. The management APIs require both network protection and application security. This post looks at implementing the network isolation. 2026-02-09T09:59:03Z stories/739584 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739584?url=http://feeds.hanselman.com/~/945480803/0/scotthanselman~The-danger-of-glamourizing-one-shots shanselman https://dotnetkicks.com/@shanselman People should not be judging AI-augmented coding by '1 shots.' If someone told ... 2026-02-08T22:08:46Z stories/739580 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739580?url=https://sergeytihon.com/2026/02/07/f-weekly-6-2026-fscript-an-ode-to-slowly-handcrafted-code/ Sergey Tihon https://dotnetkicks.com/@sergey_tihon Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: Microsoft News .NET Framework 3.5 Moves to Standalone Deployment in new versions of Windows - .NET Blog Build AI Agents with Claude Agent SDK and Microsoft Agent Framework | Semantic Kernel Building an AI Skills Executor in .NET with Azure OpenAI Securing... 2026-02-07T21:48:06Z stories/739519 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739519?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-framework-3-5-moves-to-standalone-deployment-in-new-versions-of-windows/ Jeff Fritz https://dotnetkicks.com/@csharpfritz An announcement of .NET Framework 3.5 servicing updates on new versions of Windows. 2026-02-05T18:07:02Z stories/739413 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739413?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/roadmap-for-ai-in-visual-studio-february/ Visual Studio https://dotnetkicks.com/@VisualStudio Discover the February roadmap for AI in Visual Studio, with improvements in reliability and integrations for better performance. 2026-02-04T20:46:16Z stories/739377 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739377?url=https://codeopinion.com/your-idempotent-code-is-lying-to-you/ Derek Comartin https://dotnetkicks.com/@codeopinion Idempotent handlers aren't automatically safe. Here's why "idempotent" can still mean duplicate side effects, and what patterns actually work. 2026-02-04T14:06:06Z stories/739374 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739374?url=https://textslashplain.com/2026/02/03/winter-2026-runs/ Eric Lawrence https://dotnetkicks.com/@ericlaw I did a reasonably good job running on my treadmill throughout the fall of 2025, in preparation for my second summit of Mount Kilimanjaro over New Years (blog post to come). Run for the Water 10 Miler On November 9th, 2025, I ran the ten mile Run for the Water. 2026-02-04T03:25:46Z stories/739302 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739302?url=https://andrewlock.net/creating-strongly-typed-metics-with-a-source-generator/ Andrew Lock https://dotnetkicks.com/@andrewlocknet In this post I explore the source generators shipped in Microsoft.Extensions.Telemetry.Abstractions, explore the code, and discuss whether I would use them 2026-02-03T10:35:33Z stories/739299 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739299?url=https://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2026/02/02/Linear-Regression-with-Pseudo-Inverse-Training-Using-JavaScript.aspx VisualStudioMagazine https://dotnetkicks.com/@VSMdev Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression with pseudo-inverse training implemented using JavaScript. Compared to other training techniques, such as stochastic gradient descent, pseudo-inverse training does not require any parameters and so it is especially simple to use. 2026-02-02T20:05:07Z stories/739289 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739289?url=https://sergeytihon.com/2026/02/01/f-weekly-5-2026-leveling-up-with-lattice/ Sergey Tihon https://dotnetkicks.com/@sergey_tihon Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET AI Essentials - The Core Building Blocks Explained - .NET Blog Join Microsoft at NDC London 2026 - Let's Build the Future of .NET Together Build AI Agents with GitHub Copilot SDK and Microsoft Agent Framework | Semantic Kernel Build... 2026-02-02T19:34:57Z stories/739232 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739232?url=https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/01/26/maia-200-the-ai-accelerator-built-for-inference/ Microsoft Azure https://dotnetkicks.com/@Azure Today, we're proud to introduce Maia 200, a breakthrough inference accelerator engineered to dramatically improve the economics of AI token generation. Maia 200 is an AI inference powerhouse: an accelerator built on TSMC's 3nm process with native FP8/FP4 tensor cores, a redesigned memory system with 216GB HBM3e at 7 TB/s and 272MB of on-chip SRAM, plus... 2026-02-02T16:45:11Z stories/739213 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739213?url=https://rion.io/2026/02/02/surviving-the-streaming-dungeon-with-kafka-queues/ Rion Williams https://dotnetkicks.com/@rionmonster Recently, I've been borderline addicted to Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which I cannot recommend enough. The books drop their characters into massive, chaotic dungeons filled with monsters, traps, loot, and a deeply unhinged AI that seems determined to keep things interesting. If you're wondering what 2026-02-02T16:44:50Z stories/739200 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739200?url=https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/02/02/building-a-greenfield-system-with-the-critter-stack/ jeremydmiller https://dotnetkicks.com/@jeremydmiller JasperFx Software works hand in hand with our clients to improve our client's outcomes on software projects using the "Critter Stack" (Marten and Wolverine). Based on our engagements with client projects as well as the greater Critter Stack user base, we've built up quite a few optional usages and settings in the two frameworks to... 2026-02-02T16:34:52Z stories/739158 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739158?url=https://damienbod.com/2026/02/02/use-client-assertions-in-asp-net-core-using-openid-connect-oauth-dpop-and-oauth-par/ damienbod https://dotnetkicks.com/@damien_bod This post looks at implement client assertions in an ASP.NET Core application OpenID Connect client using OAuth Demonstrating Proof of Possession (DPoP) and OAuth Pushed Authorization Requests (PAR). Code: https://github.com/swiss-ssi-group/swiyu-passkeys-idp-loi-loa Blogs in this series: Digital authentication and identity validation Set the amr claim when using passkeys authentication in ASP.NET Core Implementing Level of Authentication (LoA)... 2026-02-02T08:34:44Z stories/739065 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739065?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-ai-essentials-the-core-building-blocks-explained/ Jeff Fritz https://dotnetkicks.com/@csharpfritz Learn how Microsoft.Extensions.AI provides a unified API for building intelligent .NET applications with any LLM provider - one interface, endless possibilities, with built-in middleware, telemetry, structured outputs and more. 2026-01-28T17:41:44Z stories/739027 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/739027?url=https://textslashplain.com/2026/01/27/microsoft-defender-false-positives/ Eric Lawrence https://dotnetkicks.com/@ericlaw Software developers and end-users are often interested in understanding how to resolve incorrect detections from their antivirus/security software, including Microsoft Defender. Such False Positives (FPs) can disrupt your use of your device by incorrectly blocking innocuous files or processes. However, you should take extreme care before concluding that a given detection is a false positive... 2026-01-28T06:11:58Z stories/738968 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738968?url=https://rion.io/2026/01/27/prepare-for-launch-enrichment-strategies-for-apache-flink/ Rion Williams https://dotnetkicks.com/@rionmonster Sometimes, when we're getting ready to launch a new Apache Flink job - or even just roll out a major new feature - we run into a familiar problem: we need meaningful data in state before the job can do what we built it to do. 2026-01-27T20:51:11Z stories/738956 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738956?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-january-update-enhanced-editor-experience/ Visual Studio https://dotnetkicks.com/@VisualStudio Explore Visual Studio January update for new features that enhance your editor experience and boost your productivity. 2026-01-27T18:41:10Z stories/738845 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738845?url=https://andrewlock.net/creating-and-consuming-metrics-with-system-diagnostics-metrics-apis/ Andrew Lock https://dotnetkicks.com/@andrewlocknet In this post I provide an introduction to the System.Diagnostics.Metrics API, and show how to create a custom metric and read it with dotnet-coutners 2026-01-27T10:20:59Z stories/738839 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738839?url=https://damienbod.com/2026/01/26/force-step-up-authentication-in-web-applications/ damienbod https://dotnetkicks.com/@damien_bod The post shows how to implement a step up authorization using the OAuth 2.0 Step Up Authentication Challenge Protocol RFC 9470. The application uses ASP.NET Core to implement the API, the web application and the identity provider. Duende IdentityServer is used to implement the OpenID Connect server standard and also OAuth DPoP token binding as... 2026-01-26T20:20:34Z stories/738794 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738794?url=https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/01/26/wolverine-idioms-for-mediatr-users/ jeremydmiller https://dotnetkicks.com/@jeremydmiller The Wolverine community fields a lot of questions from people who are moving to Wolverine from their previous MediatR usage. A quite natural response is to try to use Wolverine as a pure drop in replacement for MediatR and even try to use the existing MediatR idioms they're already used to. 2026-01-26T18:20:46Z stories/738783 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738783?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/join-us-at-ndc-london-2026/ .NET Team https://dotnetkicks.com/@dotnet Join Microsoft at NDC London 2026 for expert insights on .NET, Azure, AI, and cloud-native development from top speakers. 2026-01-26T18:11:00Z stories/738686 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738686?url=http://jesseliberty.com/2026/01/24/hypervideo-features/ Jesse Liberty https://dotnetkicks.com/@JesseLiberty In a previous post, I laid out the basic idea of an AI demonstration project I call HyperVideo. In this short post, I'd like to review some of the features I imagine for this project. Some will be implemented in the MVP, some after the initial "release," and some are simply aspirational. 2026-01-24T19:19:13Z stories/738685 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738685?url=http://sergeytihon.com/2026/01/24/f-weekly-3-2026-f-event-unconference-in-2026/ Sergey Tihon https://dotnetkicks.com/@sergey_tihon Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Bringing work context to your code in GitHub Copilot - Microsoft for Developers Context-Driven Development: Agent Skills for Microsoft Foundry and Azure | All things Azure PowerToys 0.97 is here: a big Command Palette update and a new mouse utility -... 2026-01-24T15:29:36Z stories/738625 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738625?url=https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/01/22/announcing-winapp-the-windows-app-development-cli/ Windows Blogs https://dotnetkicks.com/@windowsblog We are excited to announce the public preview of the Windows App Development CLI (winapp), a new open-source c 2026-01-22T16:07:53Z stories/738621 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738621?url=https://jesseliberty.com/2026/01/22/essential-programmer-utilities/ Jesse Liberty https://dotnetkicks.com/@JesseLiberty Every two years or so I publish a list of the utilities I find indispensable. It is interesting to me which ones last year after year (e.g., Evernote) and which fall off the list-often because the functionality I want has been absorbed into Microsoft software I'm already using. Here is 2026's list... 2026-01-22T12:47:50Z stories/738612 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738612?url=https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/01/22/martens-aggregation-projection-subsystem/ jeremydmiller https://dotnetkicks.com/@jeremydmiller Marten has very rich support for projecting events into read, write, or query models. While there are other capabilities as well, the most common usage is probably to aggregate related events into a singular view. Marten projections can be executed Live, meaning that Marten does the creation of the view by loading the target events... 2026-01-22T11:57:49Z stories/738518 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738518?url=https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/01/21/catching-up-with-recent-wolverine-releases/ jeremydmiller https://dotnetkicks.com/@jeremydmiller Wolverine has had a very frequent release cadence the past couple months as community contributions, requests from JasperFx Software clients, and yes, sigh, bug reports have flowed in. Right now I think I can justifiably claim that Wolverine is innovating much faster than any of the other comparable tools in the .NET ecosystem. 2026-01-21T14:57:18Z stories/738494 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738494?url=https://jesseliberty.com/2026/01/21/copilot-gets-us-started/ Jesse Liberty https://dotnetkicks.com/@JesseLiberty In yesterday's post I described the project I want to build: HyperVideo. This morning I created a new Blazor application and the first thing I did was to open CoPilot and give it a prompt. Specifically, I asked it to build what I described yesterday. 2026-01-21T12:37:13Z stories/738487 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738487?url=https://codeopinion.com/you-cant-future-proof-software-architecture/ Derek Comartin https://dotnetkicks.com/@codeopinion "Future-Proof Software Architecture" sounds like a good idea, but reality is you can't. What you can do is control the blast radius. 2026-01-20T23:36:55Z stories/738475 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738475?url=https://jesseliberty.com/2026/01/20/an-ai-project/ Jesse Liberty https://dotnetkicks.com/@JesseLiberty As part of my work of rapidly coming up to speed with creating AI applications, I've decided to start an ambitious project, and to bring you with me. I call it HyperVideo. Picture a rectangle in which a video is playing (typically news or an instructional video, but it can be anything). 2026-01-20T22:36:53Z stories/738454 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738454?url=https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/01/20/easier-query-models-with-marten/ jeremydmiller https://dotnetkicks.com/@jeremydmiller The Marten community made our first big release of the new year with 8.18 this morning. I'm particularly happy with a couple significant things in this release: We had 8 different contributors in just the last month of work this release represents Anne Erdtsieck did a lot to improve our documentation for using our multi-stream... 2026-01-20T15:36:42Z stories/738416 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738416?url=https://jesseliberty.com/2026/01/19/fundamentals-of-ai/ Jesse Liberty https://dotnetkicks.com/@JesseLiberty I'm studying for the Fundamentals of AI certification test by Microsoft. You would think this would be pretty easy (being fundamentals, and all), but here is a sample question from their study guide... This is not a trivial test, and I'm getting too old to memorize all the necessary material. 2026-01-19T17:26:03Z stories/738401 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738401?url=https://damienbod.com/2026/01/18/implementing-level-of-identification-loi-with-asp-net-core-identity-and-duende/ damienbod https://dotnetkicks.com/@damien_bod This article explores how to implement Level of Identification (LOI) in an ASP.NET Core application. The solution uses Duende IdentityServer as the OpenID Connect provider and ASP.NET Core Identity for user management. Identity verification is performed using the Swiyu Public Beta infrastructure. Any OpenID Connect client can consume the loi claim together with the loa... 2026-01-19T12:55:57Z stories/738375 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738375?url=https://sergeytihon.com/2026/01/17/f-weekly-3-2026-most-token-efficient-static-language/ Sergey Tihon https://dotnetkicks.com/@sergey_tihon Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Which programming languages are most token-efficient? - Martin Alderson How to Build Android Widgets with .NET MAUI - .NET Blog How We Synchronize .NET's Virtual Monorepo - .NET Blog .NET and .NET Framework January 2026 servicing releases updates - .NET Blog... 2026-01-18T21:15:45Z stories/738338 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738338?url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/01/14/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-idc-marketscape-for-unified-ai-governance-platforms/ Microsoft Azure https://dotnetkicks.com/@Azure Microsoft is honored to be named a Leader in the 2025-2026 IDC MarketScape for Unified AI Governance Platforms. 2026-01-17T20:44:54Z stories/738215 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738215?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/copilot-memories/ Visual Studio https://dotnetkicks.com/@VisualStudio Copilot memories in Visual Studio helps document your preferences and get better responses for your requests 2026-01-15T13:13:33Z stories/738148 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738148?url=https://petabridge.com/blog/ai-transforms-oss-business-models/ Petabridge https://dotnetkicks.com/@petabridge Tailwind's 80% revenue decline leads to a much more interesting story 2026-01-14T17:23:45Z stories/738093 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738093?url=https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/01/13/how-jasperfx-supports-our-customers/ jeremydmiller https://dotnetkicks.com/@jeremydmiller Reach out anytime to sales@jasperfx.net to ask us about how we could potentially help your shop with software development using the Critter Stack. It's a New Year and hopefully we all get to start on some great new software initiatives. If you happen to be starting something this year that's going to get you into... 2026-01-14T00:02:23Z stories/738074 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/738074?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-and-dotnet-framework-january-2026-servicing-updates/ Jeff Fritz https://dotnetkicks.com/@csharpfritz A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for January 2026. 2026-01-13T21:42:18Z stories/737993 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737993?url=https://andrewlock.net/windows-explorer-replacement-filepilot-is-awesome/ Andrew Lock https://dotnetkicks.com/@andrewlocknet In this post I describe my experience with the Windows File Explorer replacement, File Pilot. It's blazingly fast, feature rich, and has hotkeys everywhere 2026-01-13T10:31:58Z stories/737955 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737955?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-to-build-android-widgets-with-dotnet-maui/ Jeff Fritz https://dotnetkicks.com/@csharpfritz Explore the steps to build Android widgets using .NET MAUI. Discover tips for managing complexity and older Android versions. 2026-01-12T18:11:40Z stories/737933 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737933?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-we-synchronize-dotnets-virtual-monorepo/ Jeff Fritz https://dotnetkicks.com/@csharpfritz Discover how .NET's Virtual Monolithic Repository synchronizes code across multiple repos, unifying builds with an efficient two‑way flow. 2026-01-12T17:11:27Z stories/737894 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737894?url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/blog/healthcare/2026/01/11/bridging-the-gap-between-ai-and-medicine-claude-in-microsoft-foundry-advances-capabilities-for-healthcare-and-life-sciences-customers/ Microsoft Azure https://dotnetkicks.com/@Azure Transform healthcare and life sciences with Claude on Microsoft Foundry-trusted AI for compliance, workflows, and innovation. 2026-01-12T09:02:50Z stories/737876 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737876?url=https://damienbod.com/2026/01/12/implementing-level-of-authentication-loa-with-asp-net-core-identity-and-duende/ damienbod https://dotnetkicks.com/@damien_bod This post shows how to implement an application which requires a user to authenticate using passkeys. The identity provider returns three claims to prove the authentication level (loa), the identity level, (loi) and the amr claim showing the used authentication method. Code: https://github.com/swiss-ssi-group/swiyu-passkeys-idp-loi-loa Blogs in this series: Digital authentication and identity validation Set the amr... 2026-01-12T08:51:15Z stories/737839 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737839?url=https://sergeytihon.com/2026/01/10/f-weekly-2-2026-mibo-and-wren-stack/ Sergey Tihon https://dotnetkicks.com/@sergey_tihon Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Mibo: A Functional Game Framework for F# Generative AI: The Future of Consumer Technology - .NET Blog XAML Studio is now Open Sourced - #ifdef Windows EF Core MongoDB Queryable Encryption and Vector Search Explained - .NET Blog Scaling AI Agents... 2026-01-11T00:10:31Z stories/737834 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737834?url=https://petabridge.com/blog/ai-wont-kill-open-source/ Petabridge https://dotnetkicks.com/@petabridge Why the doomsayers are wrong: npm, PyPI, and NuGet downloads are exploding 2026-01-09T23:59:40Z stories/737816 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737816?url=https://markheath.net/post/2026/1/8/efcore-lazy-loader-gotcha Mark Heath https://dotnetkicks.com/@mark_heath Mark Heath's Development Blog 2026-01-08T19:28:47Z stories/737771 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737771?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/mongodb-efcore-provider-queryable-encryption-vector-search/ .NET Team https://dotnetkicks.com/@dotnet The MongoDB EF Core provider now supports Queryable Encryption and Vector Search. Learn how to encrypt sensitive data while querying it and build AI-powered semantic search applications directly with EF Core. 2026-01-07T18:09:11Z stories/737651 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737651?url=https://damienbod.com/2026/01/05/set-the-amr-claim-when-using-passkeys-authentication-in-asp-net-core/ damienbod https://dotnetkicks.com/@damien_bod The post shows how to set the correct amr value when authenticating using ASP.NET Core Identity and passkeys in .NET 10. When authenticating using OpenID Connect and passkeys authentication, the OpenID Connect Extended Authentication Profile (EAP) ACR Values 1.0 specification should be used for the implementation. The amr claim should return the pop value. 2026-01-06T03:16:56Z stories/737638 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737638?url=https://andrewlock.net/updates-to-netescapaades-enumgenerators-new-apis-and-system-memory-support/ Andrew Lock https://dotnetkicks.com/@andrewlocknet In this post I describe some recent changes to the NetEscapades.EnumGenerators source generator, including support for the System.Memory package and new APIs 2026-01-05T22:56:52Z stories/737632 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737632?url=https://codeopinion.com/context-is-the-bottleneck-in-software-development/ Derek Comartin https://dotnetkicks.com/@codeopinion Software development context matters more than ever. AI can write code, but it can't guess intent, tradeoffs, or boundaries. 2026-01-05T21:56:51Z stories/737626 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737626?url=https://jesseliberty.com/2026/01/05/logo/ Jesse Liberty https://dotnetkicks.com/@JesseLiberty Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET, is now available wherever you buy your books. 2026-01-05T21:06:53Z stories/737611 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737611?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/generative-ai-with-large-language-models-in-dotnet-and-csharp/ Jeff Fritz https://dotnetkicks.com/@csharpfritz A practical introduction to modern AI for .NET developers. 2026-01-05T18:17:03Z stories/737559 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737559?url=https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/01/04/critter-stack-and-jasperfx-retrospective-for-2025/ jeremydmiller https://dotnetkicks.com/@jeremydmiller At least professionally, I tend to be mostly focused on what's next on the road map or upcoming client work or long planned strategic improvements to the Critter Stack (Marten and Wolverine). One of the things I do every year is to write out a blog post stating the technical goals for the OSS projects... 2026-01-05T02:08:03Z stories/737522 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737522?url=https://jesseliberty.com/2026/01/04/learning-ai/ Jesse Liberty https://dotnetkicks.com/@JesseLiberty Very excited to say that I have purchased 3-4 books in preparation for the Azure AI 102 certification from Microsoft. I will be creating another series here, distilling down what I learn, even while we keep the API series going. This is the first certification I've ever tried for... 2026-01-04T18:46:11Z stories/737508 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737508?url=https://sergeytihon.com/2026/01/03/f-weekly-1-2026-kipo-future-of-monogame/ Sergey Tihon https://dotnetkicks.com/@sergey_tihon Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Top .NET Videos & Live Streams of 2025 - .NET Blog Top .NET Blog Posts of 2025 - .NET Blog Java at Microsoft: 2025 Year in Review - Microsoft for Java Developers https://bsky.app/profile/tunaxor.me/post/3mbdl6vsbs222 Videos C# Source Generators - Why and How... 2026-01-04T07:45:48Z stories/737376 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737376?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/top-dotnet-videos-live-streams-of-2025/ Jeff Fritz https://dotnetkicks.com/@csharpfritz Let's take a look back at the amazing .NET videos, events, and live streams from 2025! 2025-12-31T18:13:24Z stories/737343 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737343?url=https://markheath.net/post/2025/12/31/2025-year-in-review Mark Heath https://dotnetkicks.com/@mark_heath Mark Heath's Development Blog 2025-12-31T00:42:55Z stories/737327 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737327?url=https://rion.io/2025/12/30/striking-a-balance-working-fully-remote-for-nearly-a-decade/ Rion Williams https://dotnetkicks.com/@rionmonster Recently, I was chatting with an engineer who was transitioning into a fully remote role for the first time in their career. They were excited, but also had a touch of anxiety about it. 2025-12-31T00:32:52Z stories/737312 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737312?url=https://petabridge.com/blog/crud-to-cqrs-akka-persistence/ Petabridge https://dotnetkicks.com/@petabridge How Akka.Persistence allowed us to break the logjam on Sdkbin's massive technical debt. 2025-12-30T23:42:51Z stories/737305 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737305?url=https://petabridge.com/blog/akka-persistence-cqrs-upgrades/ Petabridge https://dotnetkicks.com/@petabridge How Akka.Persistence allowed us to break the logjam on Sdkbin's massive technical debt. 2025-12-30T23:22:56Z stories/737287 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737287?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/top-dotnet-blogs-posts-of-2025/ Jeff Fritz https://dotnetkicks.com/@csharpfritz Let's look back at the most-read .NET blog posts published in 2025, from .NET 10 to AI, performance, and developer tooling. 2025-12-30T18:12:51Z stories/737174 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737174?url=https://sergeytihon.com/2025/12/28/f-weekly-52-2025-happy-new-year/ Sergey Tihon https://dotnetkicks.com/@sergey_tihon Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News F# Advent Calendar in English 2025 - Sergey Tihon's Blog How AI fixed my procrastination - Visual Studio Blog Videos Electrifying Norway with F# and DDD - Almir Mesic | Lambda Days 2025 Going functional and immutable: Refactoring solution (...) 2025-12-28T08:51:07Z stories/737130 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737130?url=https://build5nines.com/implementing-azure-naming-conventions-at-scale-with-terraform-and-build5nines-naming-azure-azurerm-region-pairs/ Build5Nines.com https://dotnetkicks.com/@BuildAzure Microsoft Azure resource naming conventions are one of those "small" DevOps and cloud infrastructure management disciplines that quietly determine whether 2025-12-26T05:29:54Z stories/737117 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/737117?url=https://jesseliberty.com/2025/12/25/creating-the-project-with-copilot/ Jesse Liberty https://dotnetkicks.com/@JesseLiberty As part of the API tutorials we decided we needed a Database with two tables: Book and Author. Books will join Author and there can be as many authors as we want. Rather than writing this however, I went on GitHub and used the agents. I prompted: ASP.net API with a sqlserver backend. 2025-12-25T15:30:23Z stories/736980 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736980?url=https://sergeytihon.com/2025/12/20/f-weekly-51-2025-websharper-10-fidelity-framework/ Sergey Tihon https://dotnetkicks.com/@sergey_tihon Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News WebSharper 10.0 Aspire 13.1 - Our holiday gift to you | Aspire Blog Microsoft.Testing.Platform Now Fully Supported in Azure DevOps - .NET Blog How to Build iOS Widgets with .NET MAUI - .NET Blog Build declarative agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot... 2025-12-21T23:27:02Z stories/736976 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736976?url=https://build5nines.com/new-book-build-and-deploy-apps-using-azure-developer-cli-written-by-chris-pietschmann/ Build5Nines.com https://dotnetkicks.com/@BuildAzure I am excited to announce the release of my new book, Build and Deploy Apps using Azure Developer CLI, a practical, hands-on guide for developers and teams who 2025-12-21T18:06:53Z stories/736960 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736960?url=https://damienbod.com/2025/12/20/digital-authentication-and-identity-validation/ damienbod https://dotnetkicks.com/@damien_bod This post looks at authentication and identity validation and describes what should be validated and some of the concepts. With the increasing push to move processes to a digital world and the new threat models, authentication and identity validation MUST be implemented in a professional way. 2025-12-21T02:56:34Z stories/736946 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736946?url=https://jesseliberty.com/2025/12/20/joe-dluzen-on-azure-functions-durable-functions/ Jesse Liberty https://dotnetkicks.com/@JesseLiberty I'm happy to announce the start of a new series on creating APIs with C# and .NET-beginning with a series of posts, videos, and podcasts on Azure Functions and Durable Functions. 2025-12-20T22:26:20Z stories/736902 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736902?url=https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/12/18/2025-in-review-how-we-elevated-the-microsoft-store-experience/ Windows Blogs https://dotnetkicks.com/@windowsblog 2025 was a meaningful year for the Microsoft Store on Windows, with more than 250 million monthly users discovering a Microsoft Store that feels more personalized, helpful and delightful to use. We welcomed exciting new arrivals to the st 2025-12-18T17:04:55Z stories/736815 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736815?url=https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/article/azure-updates-december-2025 Microsoft Azure https://dotnetkicks.com/@Azure Azure's December 2025 partner updates highlight new AI‑powered tools, governance capabilities, and cloud innovations that help partners deliver smarter, scalable solutions. 2025-12-17T14:35:44Z stories/736802 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736802?url=https://jeremydmiller.com/2025/12/17/critter-stack-roadmap-for-2026/ jeremydmiller https://dotnetkicks.com/@jeremydmiller 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. So with plenty of feedback from the other Critter Stack Core team mem... 2025-12-17T14:04:23Z stories/736738 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736738?url=https://codeopinion.com/why-microservices-debates-miss-the-point/ Derek Comartin https://dotnetkicks.com/@codeopinion Most of the complaints and pain from microservices is because people don't acknowledge the coupling in their system. 2025-12-16T22:43:51Z stories/736726 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736726?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/microsoft-testing-platform-azure-retry/ .NET Team https://dotnetkicks.com/@dotnet Azure DevOps enhanced support for Microsoft.Testing.Platform, from running tests to publishing results! 2025-12-16T18:23:38Z stories/736724 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736724?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2026-debugging-with-copilot/ Visual Studio https://dotnetkicks.com/@VisualStudio Understand how the Visual Studio 2026 Debugger accelerates your workflow, making debugging less frustrating and more effective. 2025-12-16T15:03:38Z stories/736711 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736711?url=https://andrewlock.net/creating-a-dotnet-profiler-using-csharp-with-silhouette/ Andrew Lock https://dotnetkicks.com/@andrewlocknet In this post I look at how to create a simple .NET profiler. But instead of using C++, the profiler uses C# and NativeAOT with the Silhouette library 2025-12-16T10:33:29Z stories/736689 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736689?url=https://build5nines.com/prompt-noise-is-killing-your-ai-accuracy-how-to-optimize-context-for-grounded-output/ Build5Nines.com https://dotnetkicks.com/@BuildAzure The most common reason an AI system "hallucinates" in production isn't that the model is dumb. It's that we're drowning it. 2025-12-16T01:43:13Z stories/736640 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736640?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-to-build-ios-widgets-with-dotnet-maui/ .NET Team https://dotnetkicks.com/@dotnet Build professional iOS widgets with .NET MAUI, from static displays to interactive widgets. 2025-12-15T18:13:09Z stories/736573 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736573?url=https://sergeytihon.com/2025/12/14/f-weekly-50-2025-making-of-a-programming-language/ Sergey Tihon https://dotnetkicks.com/@sergey_tihon Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET 10 Networking Improvements - .NET Blog Microsoft Learn MCP Server Elevates Development - .NET Blog Implementing Cross-Platform In-App Billing in .NET MAUI Applications - .NET Blog Making Windows Terminal awesome with GitHub Copilot CLI - Microsoft for Developers Join us... 2025-12-14T19:22:23Z stories/736367 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736367?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/streamlining-your-git-workflow-with-visual-studio-2026/ Visual Studio https://dotnetkicks.com/@VisualStudio You're a .NET developer with a busy morning, and an Azure DevOps ticket drops: "Login endpoint 500s under load." You've got to fix it, review a teammate's feature branch, and keep your repo clean - all before lunch. Visual Studio's Git tools turn this everyday Git workflow of creating topic branches, stashing changes, committing, and [...] 2025-12-10T15:09:31Z stories/736324 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736324?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-and-dotnet-framework-december-2025-servicing-updates/ .NET Team https://dotnetkicks.com/@dotnet A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for December 2025. 2025-12-09T18:58:55Z stories/736298 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736298?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/cross-platform-billing-dotnet-maui/ .NET Team https://dotnetkicks.com/@dotnet Learn how to implement in-app purchases in your .NET MAUI apps with our new cross-platform billing sample for Android, iOS, Mac Catalyst, and Windows. 2025-12-09T18:19:24Z stories/736257 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736257?url=https://andrewlock.net/trying-out-the-zed-editor-on-windows-for-dotnet-and-markdown/ Andrew Lock https://dotnetkicks.com/@andrewlocknet 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 writing Markdown documents 2025-12-09T10:18:41Z stories/736233 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736233?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/microsoft-learn-mcp-server-elevates-development/ .NET Team https://dotnetkicks.com/@dotnet Explore how the Learn MCP server enhances the developer experience with Copilot, showcase practical examples, and provide straightforward integration instructions for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, the Copilot Command Line Interface, and the Copilot Coding Agent 2025-12-08T20:08:18Z stories/736231 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736231?url=https://codeopinion.com/aggregates-in-ddd-model-rules-not-relationships/ Derek Comartin https://dotnetkicks.com/@codeopinion Aggregates in DDD aren't about loading every related entity. They're about modeling rules, not relationships. 2025-12-08T19:28:17Z stories/736202 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736202?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-10-networking-improvements/ .NET Team https://dotnetkicks.com/@dotnet Introducing new networking features in .NET 10 including HTTP space, WebSockets, security and more! 2025-12-08T18:08:13Z stories/736168 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736168?url=https://sergeytihon.com/2025/12/06/f-weekly-49-2025-oxpecker-2-fsi-mcp-lsp-aoc-in-f/ Sergey Tihon https://dotnetkicks.com/@sergey_tihon Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET Conf 2025 Recap - Celebrating .NET 10, Visual Studio 2026, AI, Community, & More - .NET Blog Introducing Data Ingestion Building Blocks (Preview) - .NET Blog Cross-Platform Age Verification in .NET MAUI Applications - .NET Blog Unlocking the Power of... 2025-12-07T08:47:16Z stories/736132 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736132?url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/blog/2025/12/05/how-the-microsoft-sql-team-is-investing-in-sql-tools-and-experiences/ Microsoft SQL Server https://dotnetkicks.com/@SQLServer Explore Microsoft's SQL tooling updates, AI integration, and roadmap for SSMS, VS Code, and DevOps innovations. Learn more. 2025-12-06T01:36:26Z stories/736077 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736077?url=https://jeremydmiller.com/2025/12/04/classic-net-domain-events-with-wolverine-and-ef-core/ jeremydmiller https://dotnetkicks.com/@jeremydmiller I was helping a new JasperFx Software client this week to best integrate a Domain Events strategy into their new Wolverine codebase. This client wanted to use the common model of using an EF Core DbContext to harvest domain events raised by different entities and relay those to Wolverine messaging with proper Wolverine transactional outbox... 2025-12-05T03:35:47Z stories/736049 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/736049?url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-conf-2025-recap/ Jeff Fritz https://dotnetkicks.com/@csharpfritz NET Conf 2025 is over, but you can catch up with all the announcements and fun with video recordings, slides, demos, and more. 2025-12-04T18:15:56Z stories/735992 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/735992?url=https://textslashplain.com/2025/12/03/security-surfaces/ Eric Lawrence https://dotnetkicks.com/@ericlaw An important concept in Usable Security is whether a given UI represents a "security surface." Formally, a security surface is a User Interface component in which the user is presented with information they rely upon to make a security decision. For example, in the browser, the URL in the address bar is a security surface.... 2025-12-04T06:25:13Z stories/735949 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/735949?url=https://build5nines.com/unlock-github-copilots-full-potential-why-every-repo-needs-an-agents-md-file/ Build5Nines.com https://dotnetkicks.com/@BuildAzure AI-assisted development has rapidly transformed how engineers write code, collaborate, and ship software. GitHub Copilot, powered by OpenAI's Codex and now 2025-12-04T00:25:01Z stories/735934 https://dotnetkicks.com/r/735934?url=https://www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-16-0-0-and-mediatr-14-0-0-released-with-net-10-support/ jbogard https://dotnetkicks.com/@jbogard With the release of .NET, we've released updated packages of AutoMapper and MediatR targeting .NET 10 (and all supported versions of .NET and 4.x of .NET Framework). From this release forward, we're aligning to major release cadences of .NET since this also means upping our dependency versions as well. 2025-12-03T21:44:54Z