The .NET News Daily Issue #457

https://csharpdigest.net/newsletters/2273-removing-byte-array-allocations-using-readonlyspan

no matter which version of .NET you're targeting

https://damienbod.com/2026/05/11/using-configurable-token-lifetimes-in-microsoft-entra-id-net-and-microsoft-graph/

Configurable token lifetimes in the Microsoft identity platform went GA and I thought I would look at implementing this using a .NET console application using Microsoft Graph . This article looks at i...

https://www.roundthecode.com/dotnet-tutorials/refactoring-asp-net-core-api-clean-architecture

Learn how to refactor an ASP.NET Core API using clean architecture by separating validation, business logic, and database access into clear layers. The page Refactoring an ASP.NET Core API with clean ...

http://www.mergeconflict.fm/514

In this episode James and Frank dive into running AI coding models locally versus in the cloud—BYOK/Open Router, VS Code’s chat/agent harness, model runners (Olama, vLLM), and the practicality of 27B ...

https://www.pietschsoft.com/post/2026/05/11/csharp-how-to-refactor-legacy-code-safely

Legacy C# code is usually not dangerous because it is old. It is dangerous because you do not fully know which parts are stable, which parts are accidentally correct, and which parts are one small cha...

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/how-to-integrate-a-restful-smm-panel-api-using-c-sharp-and-httpclient/

Learn how to automate digital marketing operations by integrating a RESTful SMM Panel API using C# and HttpClient. This step-by-step tutorial covers connecting to SMM Bear, a leading Indian SMM panel,...

https://www.meziantou.net/propagating-opentelemetry-context-in-dotnet.htm?utm_medium=social&utm_source=syndication

When building distributed systems, maintaining observability across process boundaries is crucial for understanding the flow of requests through your application. OpenTelemetry provides a standard way...

https://blog.dotnetframework.org/2026/05/11/the-misleading-indexoutofrangeexception-that-means-your-list-isnt-thread-safe/

If you’ve ever seen a stack trace like this in a .NET application: …and you stared at the offending line — something innocuous like myList.Where(x => x.IsActive).ToList() — wondering how on earth a LI...

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/05/11/fixing-a-blazor-app-with-vs-codess-new-agent-browser-sharing.aspx

A hands-on Blazor test shows how VS Code 1.119 makes agent browser sharing more visible, permissioned and chat-driven.

https://andrewlock.net/exploring-the-dotnet-11-preview-1-running-background-tasks-in-blazor-with-web-workers/

In this post I discuss the new Web Worker template available in .NET 11 for running CPU intensive tasks without blocking the UI

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-apr-2026/

TL;DR Foundry Local (generally available, GA): Local model inference is production-ready on Windows, macOS on Apple Silicon, and Linux x64. GPT-5.5: The latest GPT-5 family model is available in Micro...

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https://codeopinion.com/why-sagas-feel-broken/

So, you built an elaborate system with commands, queues, an event-driven architecture, retries, timeouts, and, most importantly, compensating actions all handled within sagas. But do you really? Becau...