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hubs.liGitHub - egbakou/awesome-dotnet: A curated catalog of useful C# libraries, tools, and projects.A curated catalog of useful C# libraries, tools, and projects. - egbakou/awesome-dotnet

The Awesome .NET catalog from lioncoding is now open source! Find your next .NET library here: hubs.li/Q04BtNty0 @lioncoding.bsky.social

hubs.liWhat I learned building an xAPI 2.0 library and LRS for .NETxAPI (the Experience API, now IEEE 9274.1.1) is how e-learning content reports what a learner did:...

Building an xAPI 2.0 library and LRS for .NET: a conformance suite whose exit code wraps at 256, Utf8JsonReader for Native AOT, fsync on macOS, SERIALIZABLE on PostgreSQL, and await in Unity WebGL. hubs.li/Q04BtNzH0 #dotnet #csharp

Win 1 of 17 .NET Conf Swag Bags loaded with over $5,500 in dev tools, premium licenses, and gift cards! Upgrade your stack on our dime. Enter the giveaway before Nov 13: hubs.li/Q04C7nQQ0

Join us November 10 - 13. to celebrate the launch of .NET 11 and learn what's new! 👉https://hubs.li/Q04C7d_G0

Meet TinyFFR: a real-time cross-platform 3D rendering lib for modern .NET that doesn't mess around. Native AoT, SIMD math, PBR, FSR, SDF text, skeletal anims, multi-format 3D models, and drop-in UI support (Avalonia/WPF/WinForms/ImGui). Check it out: hubs.li/Q04BtBnJ0

hubs.liBoost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Simplify HTTP Request Handling with HttpRequestExtensionsThe HttpRequestExtensions class in DotNetTips.Spargine.Extensions offers reusable methods to streamline HTTP request handling, enhancing code maintainability and consistency. Key functions include …

Writing the same HTTP request handling code repeatedly? Simplify it with Spargine’s HttpRequestExtensions. Learn how reusable helpers can keep your .NET code consistent and easier to maintain. hubs.li/Q04BmqCW0 @davidmccarter.bsky.social #dotnet #MVPBuzz

hubs.liAnnouncing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 - .NET Blog.NET 11 Release Candidate 2 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms.

Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, F#, #ASPNETCore, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms. hubs.li/Q04Bmtvp0 #dotnet

hubs.liBlazrlytics | Powerful Analytics for Blazor DevelopersThe high-performance, real-time diagnostic overlay and Browser DevTools extension for Blazor developers. Easily locate components, track lifecycle events, find bottlenecks, and optimise your rendering...

Should I break down my Blazor page into multiple components? There are many good reasons to do this, but there are performance implications. Find out how to easily spot bottlenecks while building your site. hubs.li/Q04Bmq080 via Blazrlytics

hubs.liEssential Pre-Release Checks for Your Code: A GuidePrepare your code for release with Spargine's PowerShell script. Automate checks, generate reports, and enhance project maintenance effortlessly.

Before your next push or deployment, automate nine .NET project checks with the Spargine Dev Tool. This article shows how to add these checks to your workflow and catch issues earlier. hubs.li/Q04BfTGv0 #dotnet #MVPBuzz @davidmccarter.bsky.social

What’s next for ASP .NET Core & Blazor in .NET 11? Dan Roth shares the roadmap, priorities, and opportunities shaping the next chapter of .NET web dev. Buckle up: hubs.li/Q04y_SV80

Microsoft eating their own dogfood.... Adam Ratzman shows how the Aspire team used Blazor & .NET to build a killer CLI & dashboard. Watch: hubs.ly/Q04yH4270

Stop throwing enterprise graph DBs at your AI apps. Michael Washington supercharges RAG by loading lightweight JSON graphs straight into C# objects. Get fast, in-memory context without the Neo4j-sized bloat. youtu.be/uVNGzw46WV8

youtu.beStop Rewriting AI Code for Every Provider: Microsoft.Extensions.AI GuideYouTube video by Devessence

Stop duct-taping APIs to your codebase. Luis Quintanilla unpacks .NET AI Essentials: the native building blocks you actually need to transition from raw models to real AI agents. Watch here: youtu.be/Chbnpnj6pOI

youtu.beGive AI Agents Jobs – They Code ~20% Better (Squad for Copilot CLI)YouTube video by Devessence

Stop making one AI do everything. Brady Gaster demos Squad: an open-source runtime where Copilot agents (QA, Sec, DevRel) hold standups, remember context, and work in parallel. Not RAG—a literal AI dev team. youtu.be/xX_riXtF5So

hubs.liCoding Faster with dotNetTips.com Spargine 10: October 2026 ReleaseSpargine 10 (v2026.10.7.1), released on July 1, 2026, introduces NuGet packages for .NET 10, featuring new types, methods, and performance enhancements. The update allows for trimmable libraries, r…

The Spargine October release is here! New .NET 10 APIs, expanded benchmarks, and performance improvements across 340 methods—with benchmarked gains up to 87.52×. Explore the updates and contribute! hubs.li/Q04y_SSl0 via @davidmccarter.bsky.social ‬ #dotnet #MVPBuzz #OSS

Blazor owns the browser. So what's .NET MAUI’s plan for the web? Prepare to be genuinely shocked. Watch David Ortinau demo wild new MAUI features that were literally impossible just a few months ago. youtu.be/b9siFlZE6XQ (hubs.li/Q04yhF0b0)

petabridge.comRun Local Akka.NET Clusters with AspireOfficial, first-party Aspire support for Akka.NET, new in Akka.Management 1.5.70

Building distributed applications with Akka .NET? Learn how .NET Aspire can launch, orchestrate, and help you debug realistic multi-node clusters locally—including service discovery, health checks, and multiple replicas.

hubs.liEvaluating GitHub Copilot's Code Optimization PerformanceDiscover how GitHub Copilot can optimize code performance while revealing potential pitfalls in suggested changes and adjustments.

GitHub Copilot suggests .NET optimizations. Do they actually run faster? This article benchmarks the changes and shows why performance claims need measurements before code ships. hubs.li/Q04yhBH10 #dotnet #MVPBuzz #GitHubCopilot @davidmccarter.bsky.social

Agents aren't just LLMs with duct-taped tools. Rocky Lhotka cuts the BS: a harness, LLM, and directives power RockBot. Master memory, MCP, & A2A. Stop theorizing, start building. youtu.be/1aWmRFXcTlQ

Advanced Bot Detection For Everyone (Scott Galloway) StyloBot is an open‑source, self‑hosted bot detection and response engine designed to identify and respond to automated traffic in real time, with optional integration into your application stack. hubs.li/Q04yhB9z0

Still think Blazor can't scale? Update your priors. Shaun Walker destroys the outdated myths, proving new render modes & optimizations make Blazor a beast for modern web apps. Watch the breakdown: youtu.be/KPsjztZL-rk

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ICYMI: Heads up for .NET Foundation members: in the first week of October you'll get an email from contact@dotnetfoundation.org asking you to activate your account on our new membership platform. Click the link and set a password. More here: dotnetfoundation.org/news-events/... #dotnet

hubs.liBoost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Monitor and Log HTTP TrafficLogging is crucial for app monitoring, extending beyond exceptions to include diagnostic events like request timing and connection details. Spargine offers three HTTP listeners—HttpEventListener, H…

Do you need better visibility into your app’s HTTP traffic? Learn how Spargine’s HTTP listeners capture request events, diagnostics, and execution times to simplify troubleshooting. hubs.li/Q04y3rMc0 #dotnet #MVPBuzz @davidmccarter.bsky.social

devblogs.microsoft.comPerformance Improvements in .NET 11 - .NET BlogTake a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 11.

Performance Improvements in .NET 11 Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 11.

youtu.beAI-Generated Blazor UI Looks Done – Until You Look CloserYouTube video by Devessence

Build AI-driven Blazor UIs that bridge design systems with agent skills—turning natural language into complete, styled apps using Syncfusion. Watch Shriram Sankaran show how: youtu.be/hsiscAgILvg

oqtane.orgOqtaneOqtane is a CMS and Application Framework for Blazor and .NET MAUI

Oqtane 10.2.6 is out with productivity, security & performance updates! With 3,658+ PRs and 74 releases, it's a top project in the .NET Foundation. oqtane.org/blog/!/155/o...

github.com[HARD][C#/.NET] Independently implement ENTITY Protocol 1.0 from the sealed conformance kit · Issue #5 · blackmore-technology-group/ENTITY-Protocol-1.0-Conformance-KitGoal Create an independently authored C#/.NET implementation of ENTITY Protocol 1.0 from the sealed public conformance kit. This is a clean-room interoperability task. Do not copy or port the BTG P...

Open-source C#/.NET challenge: independently implement ENTITY Protocol 1.0 from a sealed clean-room conformance kit. No BTG Python runtime/SDK implementation is included. Vector + live interoperability testing. Apache-2.0.

21 Sept

Dissatisfied with the default Blazor template? Build, extend, and deploy modern .NET web apps without the headache of assembling production boilerplate from scratch: hubs.li/Q04xw-Kp0

21 Sept

Meet Vladislav Antonyuk, a .NET expert and passionate mentor from Ukraine. A PhD candidate and cross-platform engineer, he is bridging the gap between academia and real-world dev. LinkedIn: hubs.li/Q04xkwC20 GitHub:https://hubs.li/Q04xkwFB0 #dotnet

16 Sept

Cake v6.3.0 is out 🚀🍰 NuGetLogin for GitHub Actions OIDC trusted publishing (no long-lived API keys), nullability-aware aliases, typed dotnet tool aliases, verbosity via config, and light-theme-friendly reports. hubs.li/Q04xvj2B0 #dotnet #devops #csharp

hubs.liBoost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Safer and Simpler Async Code with TaskExtensionsThe TaskExtensions class in DotNetTips.Spargine.Extensions simplifies asynchronous programming in .NET by offering concise methods for managing common tasks like fire-and-forget operations, excepti…

16 Sept

Async code doesn’t have to be a mess. This new Spargine article shows how TaskExtensions can simplify fire-and-forget tasks, exception handling, cancellation, aggregate exceptions, and timeouts. #dotnet #MVPBuzz hubs.li/Q04x5VMq0 @davidmccarter.bsky.social

dotnetfoundation.org.NET Foundation moves all membership to Outseta.NET Foundation moves all membership to Outseta

16 Sept

Heads up for .NET Foundation members: in the first week of October you'll get an email from contact@dotnetfoundation.org asking you to activate your account on our new membership platform. Click the link and set a password. More here: dotnetfoundation.org/news-events/... #dotnet

devblogs.microsoft.comAnnouncing .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 - .NET Blog.NET 11 Release Candidate 1 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, C#, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms.

Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, C#, F#, ASP .NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms.

.NET Conf 2026 Community Days Call for Presenters Is Open Submit your session proposal for the community-led .NET Conf 2026 Community Days by October 6, 2026. hubs.li/Q04w_N8y0

hubs.liDebugging for .NET in VS Code and Cursor: The #1 Requested Feature Is Here - The JetBrains BlogFor over a year, the most consistent question from our users and community has been clear: When will the ReSharper extension support debugging? We heard you. And with the 2026.2 release, the f

ICYMI - The Rider debugging engine, now in VS Code and Cursor ReSharper now includes full .NET debugging, using the same engine that has powered JetBrains Rider for years. Start debugging: hubs.li/Q04wsQL00 @jetbrains.com

hubs.liBoost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Human-Friendly Encoding with Crockford Base32Crockford Base32, created by Douglas Crockford, is a human-friendly encoding method designed to represent binary data clearly, minimizing character confusion. It excludes easily mistaken characters…

Need compact identifiers that are easier for people to read, type, and share? Spargine now includes Crockford Base32 encoding and decoding for .NET—ideal for IDs, activation keys, tracking codes, barcodes, and more. hubs.li/Q04wsHJ30 @davidmccarter.bsky.social

hubs.liGitHub - VeritasSoftware/LiveHealthChecks: Real-Time Api Health Check MonitoringReal-Time Api Health Check Monitoring. Contribute to VeritasSoftware/LiveHealthChecks development by creating an account on GitHub.

9 Sept

LiveHealthChecks - Innovative system for real-time monitoring of API/App health checks, over traditional polling. Diagnostic ability by triggering health checks (on exceptions for eg.) & publishing report to monitoring apps. hubs.li/Q04wsvRY0

7 Sept

Membership Applications Are Open! Share your passion for .NET by contributing to the community and shaping the future of the ecosystem. Join us in supporting open source, building connections, and making an impact! hubs.li/Q04vPPr70

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7 Sept

AI won't magically fix a 25-yr-old VB6 app. 🤓 Sept 16: The GAPVelocityAI team live-modernizes legacy VB6 to a Blazor web app. See the architecture & win AirPods Max 2! 👉 Register for the webinar here: hubs.li/Q04wFyFy0

hubs.liBoost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Simplify Thread Pool Execution with ThreadPoolHelperSpargine’s ThreadPoolHelper simplifies concurrent execution in .NET applications by providing reusable APIs that manage thread pool operations. It supports single and batch operations, bounde…

7 Sept

Managing thread pool work in .NET often means writing the same timeout, cancellation, concurrency, and error-handling code repeatedly. Spargine’s ThreadPoolHelper brings those patterns together in a simpler, reusable API. hubs.li/Q04wD0G60 via @davidmccarter.bsky.social

4 Sept

Check out the most active .NET Foundation projects for the month! hubs.li/Q04vPPMP0

4 Sept

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hubs.liBoost Your .NET Networking with Spargine: SocketExtensions That RöckSpargine’s SocketExtensions simplifies .NET socket programming by offering reusable extension methods that enhance control over networking tasks. It reduces boilerplate code related to port b…

1 Sept

Simplify low-level .NET networking with Spargine’s SocketExtensions—less boilerplate for common socket tasks, cleaner code, and easier maintenance. hubs.li/Q04w2LCS0 @davidmccarter.bsky.social

28 Aug

Explore new features available in C# 15 preview C# 15 ships with .NET 11. It adds union types, closed hierarchies, a preview of the updated unsafe model, and a few smaller changes that remove everyday ceremony. hubs.li/Q04v86c20 #dotnet #csharp

hubs.liBuilding a Distributed Job Scheduler with Akka.NETLong-running jobs have the opposite lifecycle from sharded entities. Here's a scheduler that places them by real load and never interrupts one that's already running.

26 Aug

Imagine you have to schedule a big burst of data-intensive jobs in short order. How do you achieve this with minimal fuss? In this post we show how to use Akka .NET to achieve it. hubs.li/Q04tTHrJ0 via Aaron Stannard @aaronontheweb.bsky.social

24 Aug

MiniPdf is a lightweight open source .NET library and CLI for converting Office files to PDF without requiring Microsoft Office, COM automation, or Adobe Acrobat. GitHub link : hubs.li/Q04tFsB20 NuGet download link : hubs.li/Q04tG1zG0

20 Aug

Orchard Core, the open-source .NET CMS and application framework will have its yearly conference online on Sept 10-11! Join us for talks & the opportunity to speak with the people who build applications on Orchard Core and maintain the project. hubs.li/Q04tDYnH0

pro.dnf.cloud.sitefinity.com.NET Foundation Statement on Open Source Maintenance FeesThe .NET Foundation exists to support a healthy, commercially friendly, open-source ecosystem around the .NET platform.

19 Aug

Maintainers need sustainable funding. Consumers need clear, predictable terms. Both can be true. The .NET Foundation’s statement on Open Source Maintenance Fees (OSMF): pro.dnf.cloud.sitefinity.com/news-events/...

18 Aug

ASP .NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 7 - Release Notes hubs.ly/Q04tkZmQ0 #dotnet