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⛳🤖 AI just walked onto the live broadcast. On .NET Rocks!, Tim Huckaby digs into building Duff Foreman, an AI-powered golf commentator, using M365 Copilot to help architect + implement it and golf stats to fuel the experience. 📊📺 🎧 Listen: msft.it/63324aaLUy

〰️ HAPPENING TOMORROW 〰️ GitHub Universe Day 1 Keynote Set your reminder for 9AM PT 🔗 msft.it/63324aaLfG 🔗

〰️ HAPPENING TODAY at 10AM PT 〰️ Blazor Community Standup: Free Blazor components with Ignite UI The Infragistics team joins us to show off the stable release of their free and open-source Ignite UI components for Blazor. 🎥 msft.it/63326avz3s

Catch the session replay of .NET Unboxed as we join the team showing off their favorite features in .NET 11 in this release party for .NET 11 RC 2!!! 🎥 msft.it/63321avHpV #dotNET

🟣 Say hello to dotnetup! .NET’s new toolchain manager brings user-local installs, side-by-side SDKs/runtimes, channel tracking, global.json support + preview/daily builds. ⚙️🔥 Less toolchain wrangling. More building. 🚀 👉 Read: msft.it/63326avH3I

Drop in on the .NET FDN session replay as we discuss the current happenings in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit! msft.it/63321as5VR #dotNETMAUI

🛡️ Runtime hygiene = happy production. October’s .NET servicing drop updates .NET 10/9/8 with security + non-security fixes, plus fresh .NET Framework servicing. ⚙️🔥 Patch up 👇 msft.it/63321ase0W

🚀 .NET 11 RC2 just dropped! Go-live support ✅ Faster MSBuild wildcards ⚡ HTTP/2 tuning 🌐 F# Native AOT improvements 🔥 Plus #ASPNET Core, MAUI, WinForms & NuGet goodies. Time to test the bits! 👇 Read: msft.it/63327aseul

〰️ HAPPENING TODAY at 10AM PT 〰️ .NET Data Community Standup Teach your AI agent database design with T-SQL static code analysis See you LIVE here ➡️ msft.it/63329as6bv

Got opinions on .NET? Put them to good use. Take the 2026 State of .NET survey and tell us what matters most to you. 🔗 msft.it/63321aakDx #dotNET

Rule #1 of multi-tenant SaaS: Tenant A should NEVER meet Tenant B’s data. 😅 .NET 10 + EF Core named query filters can enforce tenant-aware reads automatically, while SaveChanges guards block cross-tenant writes. 🛡️ Read 👉 msft.it/63329aS77t

Your coding agent wants out of the IDE. 🤖🏃 📝 Markdown vaults 🎙️ Personal podcasts 📊 Strava + Garmin data 🧠 “Life agents” ⚙️ Personal software Turns out agentic workflows can automate a lot more than code. 👀 🎧 Listen: msft.it/63320aSA2C

🧠➡️🎮🤖 AI that doesn’t just talk... it decides. Merge Conflict dives into Microsoft Decision One, fast decision models, robotics, games, local AI hardware + why small fine-tuned models matter. 🎧 Listen in: msft.it/63326aS0A8

Got opinions on .NET? We’re listening. Take the 2026 State of .NET survey. Use .NET? Help shape what’s next. Take the 2026 State of .NET survey. 🔗 msft.it/63323avOG3 #dotNET

🤖 Give your agents better access to the data layer. DAB 2.1.5 brings native SQL json + vector support to REST & GraphQL, while tightening MCP security and moving the engine to .NET 10. 🔐⚡ Embeddings meet APIs. 🧠 🔗👉 msft.it/63324aSL2g

What Modern WinForms Looks Like in the .NET 11 Preview? This #VSLive session replay will show you. 🎥msft.it/63326aSTQj #VisualStudio

🛑 Do you need to step away from the upgrade button. 😅 .NET Framework 4.8 follows the lifecycle of the Windows version it runs on. So modernization math is more nuanced than “old = unsupported.” Cost ➕ benefit ➕ lifecycle ➕ constraints = the real decision. 🎧 msft.it/63320aSTOQ

James and Frank dive into AI agents, smart home automation potential, and why Apple's scattered AI integration lags behind competitors like OpenAI and Microsoft. Plus, practical developer updates on Xcode, .NET, and automating your digital life - msft.it/63322aWhkg

Wolverine, JasperFx, and modern .NET architecture. Event-driven systems, messaging, developer productivity, and cloud-native patterns all in one conversation. ⚙️ 🎧 Tune in: msft.it/63325ao559

🚀 Faster startup. Lighter footprint. Smoother coding. The new C# Dev Kit improvements help you spend less time waiting and more time building .NET apps. ⚡💻 📖 Read the blog: msft.it/63321aoDAR #dotnet #csharp #vscode #devtools

〰️ HAPPENING TODAY at 10AM PT 〰️ .NET Unboxed: .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 Join the team showing off their favorite features in .NET 11 in this release party for .NET 11 RC 2!!! See you LIVE here ➡️ msft.it/63328asqss #dotNET

〰️ HAPPENING TODAY at 9AM PT 〰️ .NET + Foundry, better together Join us for a series of practical explorations featuring new SDK capabilities, cool projects, and the latest Foundry features and services. See you LIVE for live demos, code, and plenty of curiosity. 🎥 msft.it/63323asqvS

〰️ TOMORROW at 10AM PT 〰️ .NET Unboxed: .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 Set your reminder to join the team showing off their favorite features in .NET 11 in this release party for .NET 11 RC 2!!! See you LIVE here ➡️ msft.it/63327asqjP #dotNET

〰️ HAPPENING TODAY at 10am PT 〰️ .NET AI Community Standup Build agentic experiences with the Blazor AI Components See you LIVE here ➡️ msft.it/63321aSMC3

🧪🚀 Ship Windows apps with confidence! MSTest now helps bring automated UI testing to UWP and WinUI 3 apps, making it easier to validate user journeys, catch regressions, and strengthen your CI/CD pipeline. 📖 msft.it/63328aWLAI #dotNET #WinUI3 #Testing

It's a busy .NET update day today with 46 updates. Given the large number of CVEs I'm not going to go through each one, instead this month I'm going to highlight ones you may be concerned about and give recommendations for patch prioritization. #dotnet #patchTuesday #cve #infosec

What happens to your digital assets after you pass away? #dotNETRocks and Mattias Karlsson discuss his experience navigating the challenges of losing a friend and having to reorganize their digital assets. Listen in... msft.it/63326aWLW4

Catch the replay... Discover what to learn first, how to get started building with Copilot Studio, and how Agent Academy can help you develop practical AI builder skills. 🎥 msft.it/63329aS3cl

This week on The Upload: .NET apps capture memory dumps when things go wrong, we break down the challenges of moving time data between PostgreSQL and SQL Server, and AI agents get stronger isolation and durable memory with Microsoft Foundry and Azure Blob Storage. 🎥 msft.it/63325aYdZN

🚨 Production app frozen? Use C# to monitor ThreadPool health, detect saturation, and automatically capture memory dumps for post-mortem debugging. 💾🔎 Stop guessing. Start investigating. 📖 Read: msft.it/6187aWM29

Discover the emerging classifier revolution with Jev—a new take on LLMs that ditches generation for lightning-fast categorization. Dive into the latest model releases, practical strategies for iterative AI dev, and why specialized models are reshaping how we work with AI. 🎧 msft.it/63329aYn5c

🤖 Chatbots wait. Agents act. Microsoft Foundry Routines are now GA 🚀 ✅ Scheduled + event-driven triggers ✅ GitHub & Teams integrations ✅ Managed identity ✅ Long-running workflows via reminders Build agents that work while you sleep. 😎 📖 msft.it/63324aYVCY

💥 Prod app hanging? Don't guess... dump. 🧵 Learn how to capture a memory dump, inspect Parallel Stacks in Visual Studio, spot ThreadPool saturation, and use GitHub Copilot to accelerate root-cause analysis. 🤖⚙️ Read: msft.it/63326ac0o8

Performance improvements in .NET 11, automatic zone placement for Azure VM Scale Sets, Microsoft’s multicloud database SDK, critical .NET security updates, and the latest production-ready capabilities in Microsoft Foundry. Episode 6 of The Upload ➡️ msft.it/63328alt5E

Rocky Lhotka discusses RockBot, his own variant of the OpenClaw/Hermes type personal assistant and why he built RockBot as a set of containers behind the Kubernetes orchestrator. 🎧 msft.it/63323aWML1

🚨 Production app frozen? Use C# to monitor ThreadPool health, detect saturation, and automatically capture memory dumps for post-mortem debugging. 💾🔎 Stop guessing. Start investigating. 📖 Read: msft.it/63322aWM4i

〰️ HAPPENING TODAY at 10AM PT 〰️ Blazor Community Standup Learn about the new Blazor AI Components to build agent-centric apps where AI agents actively participate in the user experience, driving workflows, taking actions, and helping users get work done. 🎥 ➡️ msft.it/63327aW3Pv

🤖 AI wrote the PR. Who owns the code? Live from Codegarden, OSS leaders discuss AI-assisted contributions, trust, reviews, testing, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and a simple rule: ✅ If you commit it, it's your responsibility. 🎧 msft.it/63321acEvP

🤖 AG-UI now has a first class .NET SDK! Stream agent lifecycle events, tool calls, state updates & multi-agent workflows using a standard protocol. Less custom event parsing. More interoperable AI apps. ⚡ 📖 Read: msft.it/6187altTH

🔐 Supply-chain PSA for .NET teams: Microsoft is updating the NuGet author-signing certificate. If you use trusted signer policies or dotnet nuget verify, add the new fingerprint now or risk NU3034 validation failures after the transition. 🚀 msft.it/63325acE5V

🤖 Blazor goes agentic! 🚀 New Blazor AI components help you build chat UIs, stream responses, manage conversations, and create AI-powered experiences using familiar .NET patterns. 🧠⚡ Build smarter apps with less boilerplate. 📖 Read: msft.it/63324altVK

🤖 AG-UI now has a SDK! Stream agent lifecycle events, tool calls, state updates & multi-agent workflows using a standard protocol. Less custom event parsing. More interoperable AI apps. ⚡ 📖 Read: msft.it/63321altrS

In today's One Dev Question, Amanda Silver shares Microsoft's open source journey, from early #ASPNET support for jQuery to open-sourcing TypeScript, Chakra, .NET, and Visual Studio Code. 🎥 msft.it/63324agdQk

📱 Foldable phones are cool. Supporting them? That's the real challenge. 😅 James & Frank break down iPhone Duo development: dual-screen layouts, safe area handling, keyboard behavior, UI adaptation, and why native controls win. 🚀 🎧 msft.it/63322agnXG

〰️ HAPPENING TODAY AT 11AM PT 〰️ Join the GnollHack! team for the next .NET MAUI Community Standup! Explore how the team uses #dotNETMAUI to bring a deep, traditional roguelike experience to Android, iOS, and Windows. Bring your questions and join us live! msft.it/63324acxYe

〰️ HAPPENING TODAY 〰️ Let's Learn GitHub Copilot SDK - .NET Edition Join this beginner-friendly livestream to learn how to build agentic applications with the GitHub Copilot SDK for .NET, without implementing the agent loop yourself. See you LIVE here at 9AM PT ➡️ msft.it/63321agbPU

〰️ HAPPENING TOMORROW 〰️ Let's Learn GitHub Copilot SDK - .NET Edition Join this beginner-friendly livestream to learn how to build agentic applications with the GitHub Copilot SDK for .NET, without implementing the agent loop yourself. See you LIVE here at 9AM PT ➡️ msft.it/63326a5C8A

In today's One Dev Question, Amanda Silver discusses the many ways Microsoft engages with open source, from community-driven documentation to contributions to foundational technologies like Kubernetes, Apache projects, and the Linux kernel. 🎥 msft.it/63323a57t3

〰️ HAPPENING TODAY 〰️ .NET AI Community Standup: Interview Coach Evolves: MAF + GitHub Copilot SDK Join Bruno Capuano and Justin Yoo to explore the latest evolution of Interview Coach, a .NET sample built with MAF, now with GitHub Copilot SDK support. 10AM PT ➡️ msft.it/63329a57mF

In today's One Dev Question, Amanda Silver reflects on joining Microsoft in 2001 during the early days of .NET and how her first project, writing the P/Invoke interoperability specification, shaped her understanding of managed runtimes, APIs, and dev platforms. 🎥 msft.it/63326a91Er