The .NET News Daily Issue #372

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/what-is-c-sharp3/

Discover C#, a powerful language by Microsoft for .NET development. Build web, desktop, cloud apps & more! Explore its features, uses, and career scope. Perfect for beginners!

https://anthonygiretti.com/2026/01/12/net-10-automatic-support-of-tls-1-3-on-macos/

Introduction With .NET 10, macOS developers get a nice upgrade for free: TLS 1.3 is...

https://anthonygiretti.com/2026/01/12/net-10-streaming-over-websockets-with-the-new-websocket-stream-api/

Introduction .NET 10 introduces a new WebSocket stream API that makes working with WebSockets feel...

https://www.roundthecode.com/dotnet-tutorials/file-logging-aspnet-core-made-easy-serilog

Learn how to add file logging to an ASP.NET Core app using Serilog, including setup, configuration, and writing logs to daily rolling files. The page File logging in ASP.NET Core made easy with Serilo...

https://steven-giesel.com/blogPost/352fe495-9cc4-4df8-8ad1-a3e26a64185c

There is a nice proposal which would make collection expressions a bit better - Giving the users the ability to pass in arguments to the creation.

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/type-casting-and-comments-in-c-sharp/

Master C# type casting (implicit, explicit, Convert, Parse, TryParse) and comments (single-line, multi-line, XML). Write safe, readable, and maintainable code!

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/understanding-schema-registry-in-apache-kafka-using-net/

Apache Kafka - Schema Registry using .net

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/loops-in-c-sharp-a-complete-guide-with-break-and-continue/

Master C# loops! This guide covers for, while, do-while, and foreach loops, plus break and continue statements. Learn to control program flow effectively.

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/methods-in-c-sharp-a-complete-and-practical-guide/

Master C# methods! This guide covers syntax, parameters, return values, overloading, static/instance methods, ref/out, and best practices for clean, scalable code.

http://www.mergeconflict.fm/497

In this episode James and Frank dive into the practical realities of using AI in everyday development—arguing that AI shines in brownfield (existing) code because it respects your architecture, while ...

http://www.binaryintellect.net/articles/d9a1c067-d052-44a9-bc69-7b89154b66cf.aspx

Abstraction is often introduced to developers as a pragmatic tool—a way to hide complexity, reduce duplication, and enforce contracts. But for those who have lived long enough in the .NET ecosystem, a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtaehXB4hPQ

Agents Overview: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/agents/agents-tutorial Background Agents: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/agents/background-agents

https://damienbod.com/2026/01/12/implementing-level-of-authentication-loa-with-asp-net-core-identity-and-duende/

This post shows how to implement an application which requires a user to authenticate using passkeys. The identity provider returns three claims to prove the authentication level (loa), the identity l...

https://logcorner.com/remote-mcp-servers-using-net/

The main entry point that configures and runs the MCP server using ASP.NET Core minimal APIs. Server-Sent Events (SSE) : Supports streaming responses using SSE with JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-we-synchronize-dotnets-virtual-monorepo/

A deep dive into the technical challenges of keeping .NET's product repositories synchronized with our Virtual Monolithic Repository using a custom two-way algorithm. The post How We Synchronize .NET...