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On-Brand PowerPoint and Word with Microsoft Agent Framework

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The End of Index Maintenance? | Data Exposed

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Copilot Code Review

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Java vs. C#: Four Java Features C# Handles Differently

https://medium.com/@steponeit/java-vs-c-four-java-features-c-handles-differently-47e57074f860?source=rss------csharp-5&utm_source=dotnetnews.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-net-news-daily-issue-540

Today I will... review GitHub PRs

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/today-i-will-review-github-prs/?utm_source=dotnetnews.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-net-news-daily-issue-540

Quack Quack: Duck-Typing in C# with Interceptors

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Building Architecture Gates for Copilot-Generated Pull Requests in .NET

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30 .NET Microservices Interview Questions That Actually Get Asked in 2026

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Microsoft Tenants

https://jesseliberty.com/2026/09/11/microsoft-tenants/?utm_source=dotnetnews.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-net-news-daily-issue-540

Using Session State

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MulticloudDB SDK: Cross-cloud portability in the coding agent era

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/multiclouddb-sdk-cross-cloud-portability-in-the-coding-agent-era/?utm_source=dotnetnews.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-net-news-daily-issue-540

The Hardest Part of Building AI in .NET Is Not the AI

https://ai.plainenglish.io/hardest-part-building-ai-dotnet-not-ai-6007e6924a1e?source=rss------csharp-5&utm_source=dotnetnews.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-net-news-daily-issue-540

Today I will... find hidden latency across a distributed .NET application

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MSIX PackageVolume: How Package Storage Works

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Microsoft.Testing.Platform: Detecting Flaky Tests in .NET CI/CD Pipelines

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/microsoft-testing-platform-detecting-flaky-tests-in-net-cicd-pipelines/?utm_source=dotnetnews.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-net-news-daily-issue-540

Using C# 14 to build "Smart records" for config & settings models

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Installing Omarchy on My Surface Book for .NET Development

https://laurentkempe.com/2026/09/05/installing-omarchy-on-my-surface-book/?utm_source=dotnetnews.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-net-news-daily-issue-540

Filtering EF Core by a Large List: The 2,100 Parameter Wall

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Benchmarking AI-Generated Unit Tests Against Human-Written Tests

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XPath for custom types in .NET

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Conquering the 100-Page PDF: Multi-Agent Map-Reduce RAG for Enterprise Banking

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