.NET Drip

Small but solid .NET Aspire 13.1.2 maintenance release. This post covers a template parsing fix for the .NET 10.0 SDK separator and updated pipeline images that keep scaffolding and CI running smooth. #dotnet #aspire #csharp bbb.dev/el1xe62laf

A clean pipeline for local voice assistants in .NET brings VAD, STT, LLM, and TTS together with streaming and auto-downloaded models. El Bruno shares examples with one-line swaps for Whisper, Kokoro, Ollama and more. #dotnet #csharp #ai bbb.dev/3kjtgla-b_

Tame ListView single-click hover effects by intercepting LVN_HOTTRACK and short-circuiting the hand and highlight. Bonus tip for dialog procedures using DWLP_MSGRESULT. #win32 #windowsdev #dotnet bbb.dev/e_hniuvxhe

A look at adding a custom ASP.NET Core Identity validator to reject plus addressing that fuels trial abuse, featuring a handy regex and clearer errors. #aspnetcore #dotnet #csharp bbb.dev/-wjgkvei7k

Dapr v1.17 lands with safe workflow versioning, history retention, and a noticeable boost in workflow throughput. #dotnet #csharp #dapr bbb.dev/o8x9w1jx_j

Build complex objects in C# without the mess using a fluent Builder pattern, from interface to concrete implementation. Includes immutable options, validation, and DI friendly usage. #csharp #dotnet bbb.dev/-eolh_ld50

.NET 11 releases big updates to async/await and @nickchapsas covers it all in this YouTube video, including performance boosts. #dotnet #csharp bbb.dev/eqy0rqgdvs

Build interactive diagrams in Blazor the easy way using shapes, connections and smart layouts with Telerik's Diagram component. Quick tips for labels, caps and selection handles included. #blazor #dotnet #csharp bbb.dev/ygape4z4te

One tidy API for OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Ollama in .NET, plus typed structured outputs, middleware, and OpenTelemetry that plays nicely with Aspire. A practical primer to turn chatty demos into maintainable intelligent apps. #dotnet #csharp #ai bbb.dev/4cbfr98jdb

Inferred message grouping, NATS & HTTP transports: Wolverine picks up new features that make message handling easier. @jeremydmiller also adds cleaner EF Core domain events and pragmatic idempotency to keep systems steady under load. #dotnet #csharp bbb.dev/97bomf531e

HybridCache is fast, but without a backplane your other nodes keep stale data. @mjovanovictech brings a tidy Redis Pub/Sub pattern for real-time invalidation and a FusionCache alternative with a built-in backplane. #dotnet #csharp #redis bbb.dev/bg1zw6vnz1

Damien Brady joins .NET Rocks! to unpack AI assisted reliability in 2026, from using LLMs to spot issues to tightening up code reviews and tests. #dotnet #csharp #ai bbb.dev/fsrkq-l8bp

Let's talk Squad with @elbruno and Brady Gaster on this edition of the .NET AI Community Standup. Squad is a Copilot team of agents with different specialties that can amp up your AI-assisted development. #dotnet #csharp #ai bbb.dev/_gqaezmbcd

MermaidJS markup to interactive WinForms diagrams in one C# call with FlexDiagram, plus tips for loading from resources or strings. A quick tour of why text-based diagrams boost versioning and dynamic UI in desktop apps. #csharp #dotnet #winforms bbb.dev/n1vazhp6wt

Watch @hindrikes break down what XAML source generation is, how it works, and why it can improve performance, reliability, and your overall development experience. #csharp #dotnet #dotnetmaui bbb.dev/1hjn624cny

Join Jonathan Tower as he welcomes @codemillmatt to break down GitHub Copilot's App Modernization agent for .NET and how it guides assessments, upgrade plans, and hands-on execution for legacy apps. #dotnet #csharp #copilot bbb.dev/z4i_r6s0to

LINQPad 9 brings C# 14, a smarter AI agent, and SQL-to-LINQ conversion to supercharge prototyping, data querying, and refactoring on Windows and macOS. #csharp #dotnet #linqpad bbb.dev/vxap5a-s6o

.NET 10 brings real wins to Blazor: smaller payloads, the PersistentState attribute, new JS interop helpers and NavigationManager.NotFound for true 404s. @CHBernasconiC shows it all! #blazor #dotnet #aspnetcore bbb.dev/0adhl6fq0w

Less IServiceCollection noise, more working code with Needlr auto discovery for C#. Covers the core conventions for discovery plus practical notes on lifetimes, exclusions, and multi-interface types. #csharp #dotnet bbb.dev/owiguyg57p

CLIP powered image embeddings in .NET with a local ONNX Runtime based library and handy samples for text to image and image to image search. @elbruno shows us how. #dotnet #csharp #onnx bbb.dev/_2jftio3cj