The .NET News Daily Issue #399

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/data-api-builder-chaining/

For decades, DBAs relied on linked servers to stitch data together. If you needed data from two places, you wired them up and moved on. It worked. It was straightforward. It felt native to SQL. But wh...

https://akash-shah.medium.com/01-ef-core-in-real-life-why-orms-matter-865d8a7cf364?source=rss------dotnet-5

When I started my career in with ASP.NET, I wrote everything using ADO.NET.

https://medium.com/@shreyans_padmani/stop-using-try-catch-in-every-controller-in-c-a6bd0530ced5?source=rss------dotnet-5

Stop using try-catch in every controller. Instead, use global exception handling and middleware to manage errors centrally. This keeps…

https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiZEFVX3lxTFBiZDluWjljcjFOMm1Zem44RU9UTW5iSGgyQWpCYV9WT05GZUN1X3dIUEFTV0ZmLUpHSE5wTFZJRXZhVlJiX1psZjhjX2xzTk5CZkpOVXhNbC1oV0pDSFRVOGJUdUg?oc=5

.NET 11 Preview 1 Arrives With Runtime Async, Zstandard Support, and C# 15 Features

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/building-a-self-healing-net-application-using-health-probes-and-auto-restart-st2/

Build resilient .NET apps with self-healing architecture! Learn health probes, auto-restart strategies, and background monitoring for automatic failure recovery. Achieve high availability!

https://medium.com/@artillustration391/beyond-data-adding-an-ai-brain-to-your-c-applications-667e995163a4?source=rss------csharp-5

In the previous installment (Link here) of our C# series, we built VectoDash — a high-performance, cross-platform weather dashboard. It…

https://medium.com/@sayedsulaiman607/make-unity-feel-instant-background-jobs-with-thread-manager-aca32e65e7b6?source=rss------csharp-5

You hit Play, trigger a big file load or pathfinding pass, and your Unity scene freezes for a second or two. Players feel it immediately —…

https://medium.com/@sweetondonie/locks-monitors-and-semaphores-explained-without-fear-ead81d3d691a?source=rss------dotnet-5

Nobody explains this clearly.

https://towardsdev.com/whats-new-in-c-15-practical-language-enhancements-for-net-developers-c31ed4c4a7b8?source=rss------csharp-5

Every year, the C# language evolves to help developers write safer, clearer, and more expressive code. Continue reading on Towards Dev »

https://blog.lhotka.net/2026/02/15/MCP-Aggregator

If you’ve been using AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, you’ve probably started connecting them to MCP servers. But the current model has each AI tool maintaining its own dir...

https://miguelbarros1983.medium.com/cqrs-in-practice-with-net-8-639292bc4a71?source=rss------dotnet-5

Separating Write and Read Models with Independent Databases and Eventual Consistency

https://blog.lhotka.net/2026/02/18/Introducing-RockBot

I’ve been working on a new project called RockBot, a framework for building agent and multi-agent AI systems where agents and user proxies communicate exclusively through a message bus in a cloud-nati...

https://steven-giesel.com/blogPost/63431000-1192-4210-a85c-5fff00910d93

Sometimes doing arbitrary stuff feels just good! So let's do that!

https://medium.com/@mohamedkhaledshaqwieer/stop-bleeding-performance-the-ultimate-guide-to-ef-core-with-massive-datasets-98f6e8efde92?source=rss------csharp-5

How to tame Entity Framework Core when your database has millions of rows — and why your LINQ queries might be silently destroying your…

https://codeopinion.com/read-replicas-are-not-cqrs-stop-confusing-this/

What’s overengineering? Is the outbox pattern, CQRS, and event sourcing overengineering? Some would say yes. The issue is: what’s your definition? Because if you have that wrong, then you’re making th...

https://www.meziantou.net/validating-powershell-script-syntax-in-github-actions-workflows.htm

When writing GitHub Actions workflows, it is generally recommended to keep your scripts in separate files and reference them using the path attribute of the run step. This allows you to lint and test ...

https://medium.com/@wbayrakvlad/building-an-mcp-server-in-net-exposing-safe-api-tools-for-ai-agents-0ab225389cd3?source=rss------csharp-5

In today’s world it is already hard to imagine everyday and professional life without AI assistants. In just a few years they have…

https://www.roundthecode.com/dotnet-tutorials/swagger-missing-dotnet-10-how-to-add-it-back

Swagger is missing in .NET 10. Learn why it was removed, how to add it back, and explore alternatives like Scalar, Redoc, Postman, and .http files. The page Swagger's missing in .NET 10 - How to add i...