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The .NET News Daily Issue #109

The .NET News Daily Issue #109

Your Daily Dose of .NET Insights, Tools, and Trends

Jasen Fici
January 13, 2025

Welcome to another edition of your .NET companion, kicking off the week with all the optimism of a new project on a Monday! Whether you’re navigating bug fixes or chasing deadlines, we’ve lined up articles sharper than a Mustang's engine, ready to rev up your development skills. Let curiosity steer you through the pages and fuel your passion for crafting code that's as clean as a showroom floor.

Today's Articles

25 Advanced LINQ Queries Every .NET Developer Should Know

Are you looking to level up your LINQ skills? While you might be comfortable with basic LINQ operations, there’s a whole world of powerful… Continue reading on Medium »

C# .NET 9 — Integrating OpenAI: Summarizing Product Reviews Sample

Learn how to leverage OpenAI’s language model in .NET 9 to generate concise, multilingual summaries of user reviews. Continue reading on Medium »

Empowering AI Agents with Tools via OpenAPI: A Hands-On Guide with Microsoft Semantic Kernel Agents

Today the Semantic Kernel team is happy to welcome back our guest author, Akshay Kokane. We will turn it over to him to dive into his recent Medium article on Semantic Kernel. As we advance towards an...

Two Big Groups of Data Types: Value Types & Reference Types

Understanding how data is stored & manipulated is very important for coding. One of the most important thing, we must understand the… Continue reading on Medium »

Writing a String Numeric Comparer with .NET 9

I recently saw that .NET 10 adds a numeric comparer, allowing you to sort string elements that may contain numeric values at the end of a string. Think movie sequels or number versions of an operating...

Be Careful When Combining Distinct() And OrderBy() in EF Core

When working with Entity Framework Core (EF Core), developers often rely on LINQ queries to retrieve and manipulate data from the database… Continue reading on Medium »

Optimize Relationships Migrations Performance in ASP.NET Core MVC

This article covers Entity Framework Core, query optimization, caching strategies, lazy and eager loading, and best practices to enhance your MVC application's efficiency.

Common Pitfalls in .NET Development and How to Avoid Them

.NET is a powerful framework for building robust, scalable applications, but like any technology, it comes with challenges. Developers… Continue reading on Medium »

Simplifying Dependency Injection with DependencyInjection.Toolkit

In software development, dependency injection is a powerful technique that promotes loose coupling and enhances code testability and… Continue reading on Dev Genius »

Dependency Injection validation in ASP.NET Core projects

Recently I was digging into some dotnet project and while (days of) debugging realised, that some of singleton projects actually depends… Continue reading on Medium »

Basic Authentication in Asp.NET Core Web API

This article explains implementing Basic Authentication in ASP.NET Core WebAPI using .NET Core 8. It covers authentication concepts, step-by-step implementation, and demonstrates a practical example w...

What is Event-Driven Architecture? Usage and Benefits in Microservices

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is a software design paradigm that decouples application components, allowing them to communicate… Continue reading on Medium »