The .NET News Daily Issue #382

https://blog.gopenai.com/enabling-observability-for-ai-agents-in-net-ce63c0c9654e?source=rss------dotnet-5

As AI systems become more complex, understanding what’s happening inside an AI agent — such as when it’s invoked, what tools it calls, and… Continue reading on GoPenAI »

https://medium.com/@sugumar.p/from-try-catch-chaos-to-structured-resilience-how-polly-transforms-net-apps-32216011209a?source=rss------dotnet-5

A modern, practical look at Polly v8, resilience pipelines, and failure-by-design

https://josef.codes/force-dbcontext-savechanges-to-throw-exception-during-test/

Forcing exceptions from Entity Framework Core during integration tests using interceptors.

https://rahulsahay19.medium.com/stop-faking-distributed-transactions-c3b4a9e90008?source=rss------dotnet-5

How a Real Saga + Outbox Flow Works in Production (.NET + RabbitMQ)

https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/01/26/wolverine-idioms-for-mediatr-users/

The Wolverine community fields a lot of questions from people who are moving to Wolverine from their previous MediatR usage. A quite natural response is to try to use Wolverine as a pure drop in repla...

https://medium.com/@ylenius/building-intelligent-search-with-azure-cosmos-db-full-text-vector-and-hybrid-search-d841b00a6e36?source=rss------csharp-5

Modern applications demand smarter search capabilities. Users expect to find what they’re looking for even when they don’t use exact…

http://www.bipinjoshi.net/articles/0fa1c5b9-5711-4fcd-bce4-1f2250d46ab4.aspx

In modern software systems, the greatest cost is rarely computation—it is waiting. Applications spend significant time waiting for I/O operations, network responses, or database queries. This waiting,...

https://medium.com/@michaelmaurice410/stop-rebuilding-api-plumbing-a-clean-architecture-net-10-web-api-starter-171723787463?source=rss------dotnet-5

Week 2 of an API project is where optimism goes to get a reality check.

https://medium.com/@ahmad.sohail/c-random-the-definitive-guide-to-reliable-random-numbers-in-net-ea1b2711dd35?source=rss------csharp-5

Generating random numbers in C# is a fundamental task that frequently surfaces during critical workflows for a .NET Developer. Whether…

https://medium.com/@thomasm0545/turning-net-maui-upgrades-into-a-repeatable-low-risk-process-57d4924f8902?source=rss------dotnet-5

Upgrading a .NET MAUI application is rarely hard because of one breaking change. It’s hard because upgrades sit at the intersection of…

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/demystifying-asyncawait-in-c-sharp-the-hidden-state-machine/

Internal working on async/await in C#

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/mastering-net-8-resilience-pipelines-internals-custom-strategies-and-product/

Unlock .NET 8's Resilience Pipelines for robust ASP.NET Core apps. Master strategy ordering, custom policies, tenant isolation, testing, and observability for production.

https://antondevtips.com/blog/why-every-ef-core-developer-needs-to-try-entity-framework-extensions

Explore the best solution on the market for fast Bulk Inserts in EF Core with Entity Framework Extensions Library. BulkInsert, BulkInsertOptimized, BulkUpdate, BulkDelete, BulkMerge and BulkSynchroniz

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/fix-time-zone-mismatch-issues-between-application-and-database/

Eliminate time zone headaches! Learn to fix mismatches between your application and database. Ensure accurate timestamps, scheduling, and user experience by standardizing to UTC. Build reliable, globa...