Testing in .NET has historically been associated with VSTest. That choice was reasonable for a long time because VSTest offered broad tooling support, deep IDE integration and a familiar execution model for MSTest, xUnit …
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GitHub Copilot custom agents allow teams to define specialized AI assistants, each with its own role, tool access and behavioral boundaries. Instead of relying on one general-purpose assistant for everything, a team can …
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Publishing NuGet packages has traditionally required one uncomfortable compromise: a long-lived API key had to exist somewhere in the delivery pipeline. Even when that secret was stored in a secure CI system, the model …
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After many years of workarounds, design discussions and library-level substitutes, unions are finally becoming a first-class part of C#. The proposal in the C# language repository is no longer a distant idea. With the …
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C# is a powerful language, but there is one road it has not yet fully paved: native discriminated union types. Developers have been working around this absence for years, typically choosing between throwing exceptions …
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When building cloud-native .NET applications, two goals often matter at the same time: a fast local development loop and a clean path to real Azure resources for publish mode. .NET Aspire with Azure Cosmos DB supports …
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The .NET team just released the first preview of .NET 11 and there is already a lot to talk about. While this is an early preview - not a release candidate - the breadth of changes touching the runtime, libraries, …
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Large language model agents can appear intelligent while still producing unstable output across runs, contexts and tasks. In practice, this instability is rarely caused by model quality alone. The dominant factor is …
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Local SQL Server database files provide a pragmatic way to keep a real SQL Server engine close to the application without provisioning a full server. A LocalDB database lives in a single .mdf file (plus a log file), runs …
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The landscape of AI development is shifting rapidly from simple chat interfaces to fully integrated, agentic workflows like the Ralph Loop . GitHub has recently introduced the GitHub Copilot SDK , a powerful toolkit that …
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