The .NET News Daily Issue #228

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

As a .NET artisan cruising into Friday, it’s time to shift gears and savor the road traveled while eyeing those coding horizons ahead. Today, we cater to your seasoned sensibilities with a toolkit that's as useful as a Swiss army knife after a marathon debugging session. Celebrate your victories—big and small—with our curated selection designed to refine and challenge your expertise. Let’s make the most of today and power into the weekend with fueled-up frameworks and bulletproof code.

Today's Articles

Sending Emails in C# .NET Made Easy: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide (With Real Code Examples)

https://medium.com/@ashokreddy343/sending-emails-in-c-net-made-easy-the-ultimate-beginners-guide-with-real-code-examples-6d927bc0b05b

Introduction:

Data Structures and Algorithms Fundamentals in .NET using C#: A Developer’s Complete Guide

https://medium.com/@bhargavkoya56/data-structures-and-algorithms-fundamentals-in-net-using-c-a-developers-complete-guide-b743d5e3ff78

Every developer faces a moment when their code starts to slow down, memory usage spirals out of control, or simple operations take forever…

Model Context Protocol - MCP Architecture Overview

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/model-context-protocol-mcp-architecture-overview/

Explore the MCP (Model Context Protocol) architecture—an open-source standard enabling LLMs to interact with external tools and resources for scalable, flexible, and efficient AI application developme...

How to Create a .NET Web API with Swagger Using VS Code and CLI

https://medium.com/@rajput.shubh2510/how-to-create-a-net-web-api-with-swagger-using-vs-code-and-cli-4dd94eefd7d9

If you’re working with .NET and want to quickly spin up a Web API with Swagger documentation, this step-by-step guide will show you how to…

Once Upon a Time in .NET:

https://medium.com/@alperkonuralp/once-upon-a-time-in-net-ef6fd430bde7?source=rss------dotnet-5

An adventure that began in 1992 intersected with .NET in 2003. So, why did Microsoft start on this path, and how did this journey…

Boost Your .NET Projects: Exception Handling Superpowers with Spargine

https://dotnettips.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/boost-your-net-projects-exception-handling-superpowers-with-spargine/

The ExceptionExtensions class in the DotNetTips.Spargine.Extensions NuGet package enhances exception handling in .NET by providing methods to traverse exception hierarchies, aggregate messages, and id...

Building and Publishing Your First Blazor Component Library to GitHub Packages: A Complete Journey

https://larouex.medium.com/building-and-publishing-your-first-blazor-component-library-to-github-packages-a-complete-journey-820c1fcc5b26

From zero to published NuGet package in one comprehensive guide

How to Use Vector Databases with .NET to Build Semantic Search with AI

https://medium.com/@rafaellarrosa/how-to-use-vector-databases-with-net-to-build-semantic-search-with-ai-16b865c75725

A practical guide with Clean Architecture, Qdrant, and OpenAI integration (or simulated embeddings)

A Simple Guide to using HttpClient in .Net

https://benedictodoh.medium.com/a-simple-guide-to-using-httpclient-in-net-ecce8d30c608

In today’s connected digital landscape, web APIs are the backbone of modern .NET applications — powering weather widgets, payment…

Why Does Generative AI Make Things Up? Understanding AI Hallucinations

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/why-does-generative-ai-make-things-up-understanding-ai-hallucinations/

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT sometimes make up facts or give wrong answers — a problem known as "AI hallucination." Learn why it happens, how it works, and what you can do to avoid being...

An open-source AutoScaler for Azure SQL Hyperscale Elastic Pools

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/auto-scaling-hyperscale-elastic-pools/

[alert type="important" heading="Guest Post"]Larry Silverman is the Chief Technology Officer at TrackAbout, Inc. (a Datacor company) and a long-time user of Azure SQL Database and ...

Built-in Logging with Serilog: How EasyLaunchpad Keeps Debugging Clean and Insightful

https://bizsoltech.medium.com/built-in-logging-with-serilog-how-easylaunchpad-keeps-debugging-clean-and-insightful-753508cd9739

Debugging shouldn’t be a scavenger hunt.

Building powerful pipelines with custom middleware in ASP.NET Core

https://medium.com/@denmaklucky/building-powerful-pipelines-with-custom-middleware-in-asp-net-core-b4ff8e626f49

Middlewares are a way to create a pipeline for handling requests and responses. They can be extremely useful in scenarios such as…

🚨 A Backend Developer’s Pain 🚨

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/a-backend-developers-pain/

Postman tests may pass, but real issues begin with frontend calls, often due to CORS. Browsers enforce security checks that Postman skips. Understanding CORS is key to debugging real-world API problem...

Getting Started with Model Router in Azure AI Foundry Using C#

https://medium.com/medialesson/getting-started-with-model-router-in-azure-ai-foundry-using-c-d17a10681a3f

Build Smarter AI Apps with Model Router, Azure AI Foundry, and .NET — Route Requests Dynamically with Ease Continue reading on Medialesson »

Entity Framework Change Tracking

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/entity-framework-change-tracking/

This article explains Entity Framework Core Change Tracking, covering how EF tracks entity states, manages updates, and boosts performance using no-tracking queries for efficient, read-only data acces...