Panu Oksala

New version 0.6.5 of MQNet library! This version updates underlying MQ library to 0.6.5, enchanges the mq-ffi invocation and allows users to view the underlying mq version with MqVersion property. I will now on sync the MQNet version numbers with mq package versions. github.com/panuoksala/m...

I have published new OSS project called MQNet. This is a thin .NET wrapper layer for MQ Rust library. MQ is basically a very efficient markdown query engine. github.com/panuoksala/m... #mq #rust #dotnet

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 (𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗦𝗦 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁!)🚀: 𝗕𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼: Get Your Build Logs Out of CI/CD and Into the Hands of AI Meet Botello. New OSS project to help you extract build logs into structured format. oksala.net/2026/03/09/b... #dotnet #opentelemetry #applicationinsights

Sleepy. #cat

Microbot is now an open source project! Microbot is a Clawdbot like implementation made with Semantic Kernel and C#. Unlike Clawdbot the Microbot does not listen traffic from external networks. It only runs on your computer and listens inputs from console. github.com/panuoksala/M... #dotnet #ai

Turn Application Insights exceptions into Pull Requests. oksala.net/2026/01/26/t... #kilocode #azure #applicationinsights #github

New Blog Post 🚀: 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 (𝗠𝗧𝗣) – 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗪𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝘂𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 Improve your unit test performance with MTP test runner. oksala.net/2026/01/14/m... #mtp #dotnet #unittesting

New version of Fabric Deck is under review and should arrive on Monday. This version will bring support for Deployment Pipelines! So you can deploy your Fabric resources between stages directly from your Stream Deck device. marketplace.elgato.com/product/fabr... #microsoft #fabric #streamdeck

This is my last blog post this year🎆! Run Azure Container App Jobs when new messages arrives in Azure Queue Storage or in Azure Service Bus. Can we get rid of Azure Functions as message handlers now? oksala.net/2025/12/27/e... #azure #containers

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁🚀: Azure Container App Jobs: A Simpler Approach to Background Tasks in Azure. oksala.net/2025/12/14/a...

New blog post📜: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝗻 .𝗡𝗘𝗧 𝟭𝟬 The tech world moves fast. It was just few days ago when I patched .NET 6.0 apps to .NET 8.0 and now we have the .NET 10 already lurking around the corner! oksala.net/2025/11/13/w... #csharp #dotnet #unicorn #superhappypicture

I have a Azure storage account that was used for Veaam backups. The storage account has delete lock, but I need to delete some old backups from the storage, so I chose to delete one folder. The delete operation has now been running for 10 hours and I think it is like 10% done. It has done 3M deletes

Azure Frondoor down *again*? #azure

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁🚀: TUnit vs xUnit and NUnit: A New Take on C# Unit Testing. 𝗧𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁 is a new test framework for dotnet and I decided to give it a spin and see how it compares to good old xUnit and NUnit test frameworks. oksala.net/2025/10/27/u... #tunit #csharp #unittesting

Did you know you can run 𝗖# 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 𝗙𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀? If you come from a .NET background, this can make it easier to work with Spark in Fabric without switching entirely to Python. In my latest post, I walk through how to. oksala.net/2025/09/23/y... #fabric #dotnet #microsoft

I just published my Stream Deck🎛️ plugin for Microsoft Fabric💚! You can download it free from Elgato Marketplace marketplace.elgato.com/product/fabr... With this plugin you can run Notebooks and Data pipelines directly from your Stream Deck device. Plugin is OSS project #fabric #microsoft #elgato

The cat has to be again involved in everything…

Aaaaand, the first rating for our "Fundamentals of Microsoft Fabric" book is here👇👇👇 Thanks for the 5-star, we hope you enjoyed the reading. @bweissman.bsky.social

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁🚀: Top AI Tools for C# Developers These are the tools that I am using almost every day and I think they have greatly improved my productivity. oksala.net/2025/07/30/t... #llm #ai #dotnet #visualstudio #visualstudiocode

Aspire is growing up. Better local dev workflows. Testing you can see. Polyglot by default. A clearer path to deployment. We just published the roadmap—come take a look: 👉 github.com/dotnet/aspir... #aspire #dotnet

SQLite Toolbox, my free extension for SQLite inside Visual Studio just got a new release, with support for latest SQLite drivers, SSMS 21 and next version of VS. Join 1.5 million developers using this tool already - watch this live demo: buff.ly/IR0U60E #visualstudio #sqlite #dotnet

#AzureDevOps with GitHub Repositories – Your path to Agentic AI by Aaron Hallberg #Azure devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/azure...

Sleeping pile. #cats

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁🚀 Estimate Your Fabric Capacity Needs. Recently Microsoft published a new tool to help estimate how much Fabric capacity you really need and decided to give it a spin. oksala.net/2025/05/27/e...

Visual Studio Agentic mode on Copilot is nice, but it is still too much behind other solutions out there 🙁.

Azure Cosmos DB is now available in Microsoft Fabric (Yes, that operational data database). blog.fabric.microsoft.com/fi-fi/blog/2...

The latest #visualstudio 2022 is now available, with #Copilot agent mode. devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

GitHub for Beginners: Building a React App with GitHub Copilot. buff.ly/h0ET7ab #github #react #javascript #webdev #frontend #githubcopilot #ai

Yes I made an API Management that calls itself by accident and made a test call into it... Now it is not answering in Azure portal anymore. How is your day going?

"However, by default, the Application Insights SDK adds a logging filter that instructs the logger to capture only warnings and more severe logs." To be honest this is one the stupidest default I have seen for very long time. Disable information logging by default... #azure #azurefunction #logging

Introducing a new generation of Windows experiences. buff.ly/xYCJElD #windows #windows11 #copilotpluspc #ai #ux

Looking for Sponsors! 🚀 Do you know a conference, company, or organization that would be interested in sponsoring #DemoTime? We’re looking for partners who are passionate about empowering developers and making live demos easier and more impactful. Feel free to reach out! #Sponsors

Blogged: Exploring the capabilities of Azure NAT Gateway. Read more about Azure NAT Gateway and how to use it with Azure App Service. #azure #appservice

Had an interesting discussion with a company which has chosen Rust as app platform because .NET does not have good desktop app solution for MacOS

@pytorch.org now has native Windows ARM builds! blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...

OpenAI Adopts Rival Anthropic’s MCP Standard, Joining Industry Push for AI Interoperability #AI #OpenAI #Anthropic #MCP #AIAgents #Interoperability #API #SDK #LLMs #OpenSource #DevTools winbuzzer.com/2025/04/22/o...

New blog post🚀! Build and Connect Blazor Chat App with MCP C# SDK oksala.net/2025/04/21/b... #dotnet #mcp #llm #ollama #blazor

Mini the cat.

The Microsoft Build 2025 session catalog is live! Go check out this year's sessions: build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁: Build Your Own MCP Server🖥️ with C#. In this post I am using the new MCP Server SDK from Microsoft to build a simple GitHub MCP Server. oksala.net/2025/04/08/b... #mcp #ai #dotnet

Playbook for metadata driven Lakehouse implementation in #MicrosoftFabric by RK Lyer #Azure blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-GB/blog/p...

Nice use case for GitHub Copilot: I have two C# projects which are using NuGet packages, but their package versions are not matching. I asked Copilot to list all packages from project A which are newer than in project B (project B has also some own packages, so cannot just replace all). It worked!

Want to use C# to build an MCP server or an AI application that connects to MCP servers? Then you should check out the new MCP C# SDK. Read all about it in my new blog post: devblogs.microsoft.com/blog/microso... #dotnet #mcp

Had to go to the gym to get rid of excess weight I gained from eating @samilaiho.com’s cinnamon buns during summit.

Summit is over, so it is time to head back home and prepare for new week. Thank you everyone. This is a picture of Reykjavik that I took from the plane. #mvpbuzz #mvpsummit

Had a change to meet the legend @scott.hanselman.com at #MVPSummit in my cool Amiga shirt. In next session he roasted us Finns thou 😀.

First day of MVP Summit is about to start. I didn't get any sleep after 04:00 AM, so it might be a long day. If YOU are at summit come say hi! I might look like a zombie, but don't let it stop ya. #mvpsummit #mvpbuzz

New blog post: Microsoft Fabric GraphQL performance🏎️. I wanted to dig bit deeper to see how well the Fabric GraphQL API performs when it is used to query the data with dotnet application. oksala.net/2025/03/24/p... #fabric #dotnet #performance