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Raymond Chen reminder for .NET devs: Sometimes the “update broke it” bug was already lurking. Config drift, mystery drivers, rogue policies… they all come alive on restart. A good read for anyone shipping services or managing build agents. 👉 buff.ly/GwOfUoo

🚀 New in #AgentAcademy: #CoworkCollective Hands-on labs with #CopilotCowork showing how to delegate real, multi-step work across Microsoft 365—emails, meetings, docs, Teams & more. 👉 Read more: buff.ly/9UgInAv #CopilotStudio

Aspire 13.2 quietly dropped a superpower: your terminal can now read the docs for you. aspire docs list → everything aspire docs search redis → relevance‑ranked hits aspire docs get <slug> → full page, no browser Stop guessing, start querying. 👉 buff.ly/RFUftBI

C# 15 adds union types: closed sets of case types, exhaustive pattern matching, implicit conversions, and even support for custom non‑boxing unions. It’s a big quality‑of‑life boost for APIs that return “one of several shapes.” Full post: devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp-…

Drop in on this month's .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Monthly Standup. April 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/BayOJEs #dotNETMAUI

Secure coding isn’t a checklist — it’s an engineering mindset. In this .NET Rocks! episode, we walks through the MITRE ATT&CK matrix, real supply‑chain risks, and the role devs play in building resilient Azure services. Listen in. 🎧 buff.ly/SXAILGi

Happening today at 8AM PT... 🔴 VS Code Live - Modernizing Legacy .NET applications with GitHub Copilot Modernization in VS Code. Watch as we modernize a .NET application with GitHub Copilot Modernization in VS Code. See you here ➡️ buff.ly/5Ez9KMG

AI assistants know patterns — not your .NET quirks. Great DEV write‑up on the silent bugs they can reproduce. Blog: buff.ly/rCkss2n

.NET devs: GitHub’s beginner guide to security hits all the essentials — secret scanning, Dependabot, CodeQL, and Copilot Autofix. Quick wins for keeping your repos clean and your dependencies safe. Blog: buff.ly/d0MGX3A

James World breaks down the new AI engineering stack: spec‑driven workflows, agent + sub‑agent orchestration, LSP‑powered refactors, mutation testing, and context‑efficient pipelines that make Azure + .NET dev smoother end‑to‑end. 🎧 buff.ly/u2qv0zS

.NET AI Community Standup: 🤖 Upgrading GenAINET to MAF v1 with SQUAD x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Live TODAY at 10AM PT: .NET AI Community Standup. Deep dive into upgrading GenAINET → MAF v1 with SQUAD — cleaner agent patterns, better orchestration, and sharper tooling for AI‑powered .NET apps. Join here → youtube.com/watch?v=RqKejm…

Source‑gen mocking is having a moment. Imposter skips runtime proxies and generates mocks at build time — meaning way faster tests, strongly‑typed callbacks, and a Moq‑familiar API without the reflection tax. This might be your new best friend. 🎥 buff.ly/KY1QPMc

Microservices aren’t the only path to sanity. A modular monolith gives you strong boundaries, clean contracts, and fast local dev — without the distributed‑systems tax. .NET teams, this one’s worth a skim. 🔗 buff.ly/2Utel7c

Blazor + Aspire live today at 10AM PT. A look at the new Blazor gateway, config flow, service discovery, diagnostics, and scaling work landing in Aspire. Join the standup → youtube.com/watch?v=7ycBQh…

Stuck with legacy .NET apps on-prem or on VMs? On #AzureFriday, Scott Hanselman and Andrew Westgarth walk through how to modernize classic .NET apps on Azure app service—no code changes required: buff.ly/sslwHLw

In today's Visual Studio Toolbox episode, we see how GitHub Copilot testing for .NET makes it dramatically faster and more convenient to generate high-quality unit tests. Tune in... 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=q_7G4L…

On .NET Live - AI offers benefits, but at what cost? x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

TODAY at 9AM PT 〰️ On .NET Live on AI offers benefits, but at what cost? How do the economics of agentic software development stack up, and how will they change in the near future? In today's On .NET, we examine this. Tune in LIVE here ➡️ buff.ly/3J9wOPo

We just launched a free, open-source course on GitHub Copilot CLI. Learn how to ship faster with AI powered command line workflows—context, custom agents, skills, MCP servers, and more. Hands on. Practical. Built for devs. Check it out: github.com/github/copilot…