screen capture of the On .NET broadcast. text reads: On .NET Live: bitchiko Tchelidze. Walk through Imposter. Watch the replay.

Imposter = source‑gen mocks + strong typing + big perf wins.
If your test suite drags, this demo is worth a peek.
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Microservices aren’t the only path to sanity.
A modular monolith gives you strong boundaries, clean contracts, and fast local dev — without the distributed‑systems tax.
.NET teams, this one’s worth a skim.
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Blazor + Aspire live today at 10AM PT.
A look at the new Blazor gateway, config flow, service discovery, diagnostics, and scaling work landing in Aspire.
Join the standup → www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ycB...

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Stuck with legacy .NET apps on-prem or on VMs? On #AzureFriday, Scott Hanselman and Andrew Westgarth walk through how to modernize classic .NET apps on Azure app service—no code changes required: buff.ly/sslwHLw

Spot art. Photo of presenter(s) text reads: Visual Studio Toolbox. Generate .NET Unit Tests with GitHub Copilot

In today's Visual Studio Toolbox episode, we see how GitHub Copilot testing for .NET makes it dramatically faster and more convenient to generate high-quality unit tests. Tune in... 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_7G...

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TODAY at 9AM PT 〰️ On .NET Live on AI offers benefits, but at what cost?

How do the economics of agentic software development stack up, and how will they change in the near future? In today's On .NET, we examine this. Tune in LIVE here ➡️ buff.ly/3J9wOPo

A promotional graphic for a “GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners” course. At the top, a pixel‑style “COPILOT” logo appears next to a small robot‑like character. Below it, text invites users to “supercharge your development workflow with AI‑powered command‑line assistance.” The lower half shows eight chapters arranged in a grid, each with an icon and label: Install, Modes, Context, Workflows, Agents, Skills, MCP, and Complete. The design uses bright colors and simple illustrations to present a step‑by‑step learning path for using GitHub Copilot from the command line.

New course alert 📣
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners is live—and it’s free.
8 chapters, a hands-on project, and everything you need to bring AI into your command line. Check it out: github.com/github/copil...

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Aspire 13.2 brings TypeScript AppHost + an AI‑agent‑ready CLI with detach mode, isolated envs, and built‑in docs search.
A crisp upgrade for cloud‑native devs.
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New: Awesome GitHub Copilot has a full website + Learning Hub + plugin system. Azure devs now get search, previews, and one‑click installs for agents, skills, and workflows.
Worth a scroll → buff.ly/wer8hvV

A circular graphic with four colored arcs—blue, orange, green, and teal—surrounding the title “Agent Framework on Microsoft Foundry.” At the top is a blue ribbon‑shaped Microsoft Loop–style logo. At the bottom left is a purple 3D geometric icon resembling a connected cube or molecule. At the bottom right is a friendly, cartoon‑style purple robot. The design suggests an AI agent ecosystem built on Microsoft’s Foundry platform.

NEW: Interview Coach, an AI interview app, not a demo. Upload your resume + job description, answer behavioral and technical questions, and get a performance summary. Built with .NET, Microsoft Agent Framework, Foundry, MCP, and Aspire. aka.ms/agentframewo...
#AIAgents #dotnet #OpenSource #Azure

A neon‑styled promotional graphic for a DEV article titled “Simple RAG Application in .NET (Clean Architecture + Aspire).” The design features a glowing grid floor and starry background. At the center is the large .NET logo, surrounded by icons representing the technologies used in the sample app: a “RAG” badge with a brain and database symbol, a “pgvector” logo, an “ollama” llama icon, and a “dotnet aspire” gear icon.

... found @ThePracticalDev ...
Clean little RAG app 🧽⚙️
.NET 10 + pgvector + cosine search + Clean Architecture, all wired up with Aspire so it’s basically clone → run → query.
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Can AI build an entire .NET MAUI app from scratch? The .NET MAUI team is going to find out — live.

HAPPENING TODAY @ 6:00 AM PT, we watch the team navigate the realities of AI-assisted development in real time.

See you LIVE here 👉 buff.ly/SD1RWdI

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HAPPENING TODAY at 12PM PT!
➡️ .NET MAUI Community Standup: Introducing maui-labs ⬅️
Tour the new an official home for the treasure trove of amazing work that has been created lately for .NET MAUI developers.

More platforms. More rendering options. More experiments. Join us LIVE! 🎥 buff.ly/UJX5LLh

Spot art. Photo of presenter(s) text reads: From Pilot to Productivity: A 90-Day Plan for Copilot Adoption

Copilot rollout stuck?
This Ignite session replay shows a repeatable 90‑day plan that actually builds usage habits — weekly cadences, prompt libraries, leader rituals, and real org data showing 30%+ sustained adoption.

A playbook for .NET teams bringing Copilot to production.
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Merge Conflict Podcast Title Screen. Text reads: iCircuit UI Roast: Toolbar, Popovers, and Polish Merge Conflict with Frank Krueger and James Montemagno.

James works over Frank’s iCircuit UI.
...from crowded toolbars, popover weirdness across iPhone/iPad, a bug traced to iOS 26’s deprecated OpenURL, to a spicy debate on in‑app browsers vs Safari and multi‑window docs.

A class in “your polish is a feature.”
Listen in. 🎧 buff.ly/IqlQX5u

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.NET 10 + AI devs get a gift: Generative AI for Beginners .NET v2.
Rewritten from scratch with MEAI abstractions, native‑SDK RAG, DI‑first samples, file‑based apps, and a full lesson on multi‑agent orchestration, tools, MCP.
Build Azure‑powered AI apps.
👉 ift.tt/qSd9lzQ

A developer wearing headphones while listening to a podcast and coding. text reads: From Zero to 3D: Ben Bowen on TinyFFR's Rapid .NET Rendering

Ever wish you could skip the engine bloat and just render the thing?
TinyFFR gives .NET devs a fast path from blank project to real‑time 3D — with documentation that’s genuinely delightful.
Ben Bowen tells the story behind it: buff.ly/3tBFlwa

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HAPPENING TODAY...!

Legacy .NET code giving you “I was written in 2008” energy?
This livestream shows how GitHub Copilot can help modernize it — refactors, test scaffolding, API updates, the works.
Great for anyone wrangling old codebases.

🎥 Live soon: buff.ly/RBWoITH

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Ten months of Copilot Coding Agent inside dotnet/runtime: 878 PRs, 95k LOC added, 31k removed, and a steady climb to ~71% success.

Humans + AI pairing at scale — debugging, refactoring, test generation, and backlog cleanup that used to take weeks.
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PowerShell 7.6 (LTS) is here — built on .NET 10 with cleaner native command handling, sharper tab completion, new intrinsic aliases (PSForEach, PSWhere), and module upgrades across PSReadLine, PSResourceGet, and ThreadJob. A tidy, reliable release.
Blog: ift.tt/znSg4fc

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.NET Rocks! w/ Brady Gaster: Squad turns GitHub Copilot into a multi-agent dev team! Specialist agents, tiny context windows, low token burn, agents chat + persist knowledge. Agentic .NET magic! 🎧 dotnetrocks.com/details/1994 #dotnet #AI #Copilot

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.NET MAUI just got an AI pit crew.
Agents now write failing tests, try multiple fix paths, run Appium/XAML checks, and validate on iOS + Android — all before you even open the PR.

Faster fixes, smarter reviews, happier contributors.
🔗 ift.tt/Xv3NStH

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Ever scaled a workflow engine until it caught fire? This DEV deep dive shows how a .NET‑based DAG engine hit CPU starvation, DB meltdown, and polling overload — then got rebuilt with queues, stateless workers, OCC, and Redis caching. Read → buff.ly/lScBv6Z

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In case you missed it...
.NET 11 is getting first‑class Zstandard support built in to HTTP compression in ASP .NET Core. ⚡️In this #ASPNET Community Standup replay, we walk through the new APIs and some eye‑opening benchmarks. 🎥
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spot art. text reads: Handling Long-Running Operations with Background Responses. Read the blog.

Long‑running agent tasks in .NET just got way easier. The Microsoft Agent Framework now supports background responses, letting your agent keep working while your app stays responsive. Kick off a run, get a continuation token, poll or resume streaming — no more timeouts.
Read → ift.tt/6mwfHI0

Spot art. Photo of presenter(s) text reads: Daniel Ward: AI Agents - Episode 393

Daniel Ward breaks down AI agents in the most practical way — real workflows, real code, real guardrails. Great take on mixing deterministic scripts with LLM flexibility. Watch → buff.ly/Ri62FOC

Merge Conflict Podcast Title Screen. Text reads: Merge Conflict with Frank Krueger and James Montemagno. Episode 506: We have no skills

Just listened to #MergeConflict tour through AI coding agents:
• MCP tools, custom agents, plugins, hooks
• The new #dotNET Skills repo (P/Invoke, MSBuild, diagnostics, binlogs)
• Agents auto‑load the right skill and do the right thing
👂️ www.mergeconflict.fm/506

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Real-world scenarios you can replicate. No fluff.

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Get in, skill up, get out.

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Stay sharp. Stay mission ready. 🚀

.NET 11 is getting first‑class Zstandard support — from System .IO.Compression all the way to built‑in HTTP compression in ASP .NET Core. ⚡️

In this #ASPNET Community Standup, Radek Zikmund walks through the new APIs and some eye‑opening benchmarks. 🎥
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