Daniel Ward - daninacan

Moving right into another cross-platform talk this month! @tonychampion covers UNO at the next .NET@Noon! #dotnet 🎤What: Getting Started with Cross-Platform Development Using UNO 👨‍🏫Who: Tony Champion ⌚When: March 26 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: meetup.com/sadnug/events/…

@burkeholland @trsdn @github Definitely going to try this out!

Checkout this PowerPoint MCP Server from @trsdn. Look at all these tools! Animations, Charts, Media, SmartArt, VBA?!?! I've not tried it yet, but definitely something to add to your @GitHub Copilot CLI or OpenClaw. Windows only tho. Sry. Link 👇

Blogged: Using ReSharper in Cursor, Windsurf, Kiro, Antigravity, & More The fact that ReSharper is on Open VSX was a pleasant surprise to learn about! Plus, it was a nice change of pace from the AI content lately. @jetbrains @resharper #dotnet daninacan.com/using-resharpe…

Reminder that I'll be live in a few 4 hours at 2 PM Central! I'll be speaking about how to use the @GitHubCopilot SDK for Memphis AgentCamp. Come check it out! #dotnet Signup: meetup.com/memphis-techno…

I'm looking forward to speaking and learning from everyone else tomorrow at this local San Antonio AI conference! Come check it out this weekend! I'll be speaking about how to use the GitHub Copilot SDK, and also show off a demo I've been working on. #GitHubCopilot #dotnet

Want to build cross-platform apps with one codebase? Next week's .NET@Noon will go over .NET MAUI! #dotnet 🎤What: MAUI: The Tropical Paradise of Multi-Platform Development 👨‍🏫Who: Jeff Shafferman ⌚When: February 26 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup here: meetup.com/sadnug/events/…

First .NET@Noon of the year is next week! @dustinson will cover how to handle tech debt, both technically and politically. #dotnet 🎤What: Techniques to Tackle Tech-debt Today 👨‍🏫Who: Dustin Thostenson ⌚When: January 29 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: meetup.com/sadnug/events/…

@OrenMe @code This looks fantastic!

The @code insiders version that just shipped and will ship in the next few days will come with an insane amount of new capabilities. A few highlights: - You can now run sub-agents in parallel. Yes, really. I even attached a video. - Major UX improvements for sub agents, especially visible in the chat window - A new search tool wrapped as a sub-agent that iteratively runs multiple search tools: semantic_search, file_search, grep_search Which connects nicely to the point above: multiple searches running in parallel, efficiently and fast - Anthropic’s Message API is now enabled by default - You can choose the model for the cloud agent (three available, all premium) - Extended thinking support when using the Claude cloud agent This is part of the broader multi-vendor cloud support under AgentsHQ I wrote about a few weeks ago - Tasks sent to the background agent (basically the CLI tool) now always run in isolation, each with its own git worktree - In a multi-repo workspace, assigning a task to a cloud agent prompts you to choose the target repo Same behavior when opening an empty workspace with no repo - Support for building an external index for files not supported by GitHub’s default indexing - UI/UX improvements for starting new sessions and switching between local / background / cloud agents - Skills are now first-class citizens, just like prompt files, with better UX indicating when a skill is loaded - Improved API for dynamic contribution of prompt files New V2 includes skills as part of the model. Curious to see the extensions that will leverage this - Finally, initial support for showing context usage percentage per session - Skills are enabled by default - Resizable chat window and session view. Small thing, but it was driving me crazy 😁 - A new integrated browser meant to replace the old simple browser Maybe the beginning of real browser use? - Better UI/UX for token streaming in chat - Ability to index external files not supported by GitHub There’s a lot more. Some of it hasn’t fully landed yet, but everything that has is already in Insiders. The next stable release should drop in early February. As usual, I’m just shocked by the volume of features this team ships every month. After the holiday slowdown, this one is shaping up to be a wild release.

@blgorman I'll take it! Testing is my jam!

@danielwarddev ah, lost my check, can't edit. So it's not a chapter on testcontainers - it's a chapter on testing (unit and integration) and part of that is on test containers :)

Currently out of stock on Amazon :). amazon.com/Practical-Enti… #MVPBuzz #APress #EntityFramework

@burkeholland I would say I'm cautiously optimistic right now. From what I've seen, AI doesn't change any of the underlying practices of SDLC, and that includes small batches. I guess if you use RW to do that, and review in between, that would be a good use. Still experimenting myself though!

I'm hesitant to promote these agents loops because I feel like being part of said loop is super important. That said, it seems like people are having a lot of success with them, which is ultimately all that matters.

@kodybrown @mkristensen So simple and effective I'm surprised it hadn't been done yet!

Hey @mkristensen, how have I never heard about your Comment Studio extension for Visual Studio!? I love it! Thank you! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…

Blogged: How to use Agent Skills in GitHub Copilot Very happy to see that skills for @GitHubCopilot are in the stable version of @code! I think it's a topic that takes a moment to grasp, and unit testing is a perfect example for showcasing them. #dotnet daninacan.com/how-to-use-age…

Thank you to everyone who came out for the San Antonio #dotNETConf! It was the first event of the year for the SA .NET User Group and the turnout + whole event was great! Also big thanks to @leantechniques for sponsoring, @Geekdom for hosting, and @devsatx for collab!

I know a lot of others tools like CC have more shiny stuff, but goodness the value you get out of GH Copilot's premium requests model is insane. I just had Opus 4.5 work on a request for probably about an hour and it only cost me 3 of my 300 premium requests for the month lol

This Saturday will be San Antonio's local .NET Conf! We'll go over the highlights of all the new .NET 10 updates condensed into an hour. #dotNETConf 📍In-person at Geekdom, Jan 10 @ 1 PM 🌮Food/drinks provided 🎉Come learn with your fellow devs! Signup: meetup.com/sadnug/events/…

@StMarysU was nice enough to send me a thank you card for speaking at their Business Week event in October, which was a great event that I really enjoyed being a part of! Here are the slides I used for that talk: daninacan.com/st-marys-busin…

Blogged: How to use Pulumi with C# - Stack References The final post in the C# #pulumi series! Turns out having a kid takes a lot of your time... Anyway, this one covers passing data between stacks with stack outputs and StackReferences! #dotnet #azure daninacan.com/how-to-use-pul…

I'll be giving a .NET 10 recap tomorrow along with @patrobdev and @scottsauber. Come check it out if you missed .NET Conf and want a summary! #dotnet Signup below!

The next San Antonio DNUG is this Thursday, with @ChadGreen covering good practices for building APIs in @Azure! #dotnet #azure 🎤What: Building Resilient and Scalable APIs in Azure 👨‍🏫Who: Chad Green ⌚When: December 11 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: meetup.com/sadnug/events/…