Your AI Tools Are Flying Blind Without These Files Every AI coding assistant defaults to generic patterns unless you tell it otherwise. Claude Code reaches for controllers. Copilot suggests IActionResult. Cursor writes synchronous LINQ. The output compiles fine but is architecturally wrong for your project. Every. Single. Time. The fix
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Traditional event sourcing asks you to solve five problems independently: concurrency control, aggregate hydration, snapshot management, event persistence, and projection delivery. Five infrastructure concerns, five failure modes, and at least three NuGet packages you'll regret choosing. Orleans already solved every one of those problems. It just solved them
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Rate limiting in .NET has always been an afterthought. You either bolted on AspNetCoreRateLimit (which hasn't aged gracefully), hacked together a custom ActionFilter with a ConcurrentDictionary, or shipped without any limiting and hoped nobody would hammer your endpoints. We've all been there. .NET 10's
Your 14-team Angular monolith has a 45-minute build, a 3-hour release train, and one broken import blocks everyone. I've lived this. After running micro frontends in production with Angular 22, I can tell you the situation has genuinely changed. Micro frontends have been oversold for years. Half the
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Your job scheduler is probably the oldest pattern in your codebase. Hangfire or Quartz.NET, running in production, doing its thing. It works. But every time you touch the scheduling code, you wince a little. Magic strings mapping to methods. Reflection-based serialization that blows up after a rename. XML config
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EF Core 11's vector search announcement was genuinely exciting, if you're on SQL Server. But according to Stack Overflow's 2024 Developer Survey, PostgreSQL is the most-used database among professional developers at 49%. Half of us watched that announcement and thought: "Cool. Doesn'
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The current AI/RAG stack for .NET developers is architecturally absurd. You've got SQL Server holding your domain data, Pinecone or Qdrant sitting in a separate cloud for vectors, a sync pipeline duct-taped between them to keep embeddings consistent, and a completely different SDK with its own query
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Microsoft finally killed the "which SDK do I use for agents?" problem. If you've been watching the AI agent space from the .NET sidelines, confused by AutoGen's Python-first research vibe, or frustrated that Semantic Kernel felt awkward for multi-agent scenarios, your wait is over.
You're 40 controllers deep, each with six or more actions, and your project structure looks like a filing cabinet from 1997. Or maybe you went all-in on Minimal APIs and your Program.cs has become a 600-line god file that nobody wants to touch. Either way, you'
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.NET 11 Preview 5: The Features That Actually Matter Every November the .NET release train pulls into the station, and every November the "what's new" posts read like someone piped the changelog through a thesaurus. I've sat through fifteen of these cycles now. Most
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Heads-up on versions: The official MCP C# SDK just went stable -- ModelContextProtocol 1.4.0 shipped in early June 2026, so we're past the preview churn. The code below targets the 1.x API. If you're reading this later, sanity-check the current package version against
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I've been using GitHub Copilot since the early preview days. Inline suggestions, Chat panel, slash commands — the whole stack inside VS Code. It's a productivity multiplier. But it has always been confined to one editor window, one context, one conversation at a time. The new GitHub