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Posts by Ed Charbeneau

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RT.Assistant: A Multi-Agent Voice Bot Using .NET and OpenAI - .NET Blog Guest blog post on building a real time assistant using OpenAI Realtime API using .NET, F#, Microsoft.Extensions.AI and .NET MAUI.

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I love big mashup blog posts. This one has .NET MAUI, Voice Agents, and much more. Give it a read over on the MS DevBlogs page. #dotnet #AI #dotnetMAUI #AISpeech

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Is RAG Still Needed? Choosing the Best Approach for LLMs
Is RAG Still Needed? Choosing the Best Approach for LLMs Ready to become a certified watsonx AI Assistant Engineer? Register now and use code IBMTechYT20 for 20% off of your exam → https://ibm.biz/BdpReK Learn more about Retrieval Augmented Generation…

A great video by Martin Keen at #IBM. RAG is a solid solution to context problems. While context windows grow, it doesn't make RAG obsolete, it gives us choices at different scales.

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Friday AI with Phil
Friday AI with Phil AI conversations are saturated with hype and predictions. What’s missing is calm, credible, human discussion that makes AI understandable and actionable. Join our layman-friendly livestream to learn…

Join our layman-friendly livestream to learn about the most current information and trends, as well as how AI is actually being applied across industries - where it succeeds, where it fails, and what leaders should realistically expect next. #AI #ProgressSoftware

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This needs to be a twitch show

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text reads: Blazor Community Standup - ASP.NET Core & Blazor updates in .NET 11 Preview 2

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👉 HAPPENING TODAY @ 10AM PT 👈️
Blazor Community Standup
Join us to check out all the new features and improvements coming to ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 11 Preview 2.
See you LIVE here ➡️ buff.ly/hmzYixP

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Go beyond the basic AI chat demo and put AI to practical use. In this #dotNETConf session replay, we learn how Multi-modal Language Models or MLLMs are used to improve the user experience of applications. 🎥 buff.ly/D2aLni3

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DevRel is getting harder with the influx of AI tools and opportunities. I think it's time we all get together and help collaborate and amplify what we do. 🫶

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Join the DevRel Co-Lab Discord Server! DevRel Co-Lab is a forum for people working in Developer Relations to share ideas, collaborate, and find opportunities to work together on projects. | 6 members

My friend @edcharbeneau.bsky.social is starting up a discord group for folks in devrel / dev advocacy – it's a small but good group so far. Nice space to chat about what you're working on, find collab opportunities, or just yap about how wild it is to work in tech right now 😂

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htmxRazor 1.2.0 is out. Toast notifications, pagination, ARIA live regions, CSS cascade layers, View Transitions API support, and hx-on:* attributes for htmx 2.x.

All server-rendered. All Tag Helpers. All ASP.NET Core.

htmxRazor.com
github.com/cwoodruff/htmxRazor

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Give Your Agents Domain Expertise with Agent Skills in Microsoft Agent Framework | Semantic Kernel You can now equip your Microsoft Agent Framework agents with portable, reusable skill packages that provide domain expertise on demand — without changing a single line of your agent’s core…

Learn how to use Agent Skills in the Microsoft Agent Framework including .NET examples to give agents reusable, context-aware capabilities on demand.

Great insight from Sergey Menshykh
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#AI #Agents #SemanticKernel #dotnet

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Customizing the New ReconnectModal Component in Blazor 10 Learn how to customize the reconnection modal dialog for users of your Blazor app with the ReconnectionModal component, introduced in .NET 10.

Learn how to customize the new ReconnectModal component in UI for Blazor 10 to deliver a smoother user experience during connection drops.

A great Step-by-step guidance from Héctor Pérez 👇
www.telerik.com//blogs/custo...

#Blazor #dotnet #webdev #Telerik

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text reads: .NET Conf 2025
.NET Scores a perfect 10

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In this #dotNETConf session, we look at a migration of a large-scale enterprise Blazor application to .NET 10.
- common approaches for upgrading
- superior performance and capabilities of .NET 10
- powerful new features
Watch the replay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBZo...

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Join the Progress Labs Discord Server! Check out the Progress Labs community on Discord - hang out with 568 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

🎥LIVE STREAM, this Friday!

Join Alyssa Nicoll, Kathryn Grayson Nanz, and Ed Charbeneau as we livestream building skills.

If you’re curious about AI + developer tooling, come hang out with us in Discord.
discord.gg/svDuKTTt

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Tune into Eat Sleep Code, this Thursday 3PM. @JohnBristowe and I will be live, giving our 🔥takes on the latest in AI, Tech, and Developer news. We'll discuss the latest developments on Agentic coding & what happened in the industry this week.

www.youtube.com/telerik | www.twitch.tv/codeitlive

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csharpfritz - Twitch I write code on video and teach as I build fun applications. I work on the .NET and Visual Studio groups at Microsoft. Contact me for stream related requests at: jeff@jeffreyfritz.com

Let's go! I've made MAJOR progress on our Blazor Components that help migrate older applications, and today I'm going to show you what we've done and how @GithubCopilot can help migrate your application

There's some other surprises today at twitch.tv/csharpfritz and youtube.com/csharpfritz

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No re-explaining. No lost context. The team remembers.

Right now, I'm shipping a Minecraft server integration with Aspire. Multi-protocol streaming, live game state sync, the whole thing. That Squad file stores every decision: "Why Aspire? Replicated services."

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Build AI‑Powered .NET Apps with Telerik

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In this #ASPNET Core Community Standup replay, we learn to build AI‑powered Blazor apps and see how AI coding assistants, MCP servers, and intelligent UI components accelerate development, generate clean code, and deliver smarter user experiences. 🎥 buff.ly/xXZJ1jq

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Be Authentic with Blazor and Microsoft Entra External ID

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In this #dotNETConf session replay, we set up Microsoft Entra External ID, implement authentication in a Blazor Web Application and end up with a template that you can use with your own code. Give it a tryout: buff.ly/9Mofvde

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Build AI‑Powered .NET Apps with Telerik
Build AI‑Powered .NET Apps with Telerik YouTube video by dotnet

Join Dan and Ed today at 10AM Pacific for a deep dive on Building AI‑Powered .NET Apps with Telerik.

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I spent some time on my live stream today talking about the design and hardware choices for the cyberdeck-like device I’m building

The rest of the components arrive over the next week

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Join the Progress Labs Discord Server! Check out the Progress Labs community on Discord - hang out with 484 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

I've been working on a new project over at Progress Software. It's related to .NET. more details mid February at launch 🎉

Come join our discord and chat with Progress / Telerik DevRel. See what we're up to. discord.gg/fk6z4MB8PQ

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I haven't used Bluesky in quite a while. What's new here? Is it worth using daily?

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Building an AI-Powered Form Assistant with Blazor Create an AI assistant that guides users through completing RMA forms using natural language, JSON schema validation and real-time form binding in Blazor.

#CSAdvent post 1 for December 19, 2025!

"Building an AI-Powered Form Assistant with Blazor" by @edcharbeneau.bsky.social

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#dotnet #csharp

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I literally used Copilot for this yesterday. I asked it to help generate some code to parse data out of a string. It came back with regex, so I added "do this without regex" and got back a function that worked without regex and was easier to read.

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Picturing Scott with a shaved head, roid muscles, smoking with Elon 😳

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War Stories - YouTube Ars Technica takes an in-depth look at the biggest hurdles developers face when creating some of the most popular video games of all time.

True nerds and developers will appreciate this series by Ars youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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2024 was the year of the influencer. They proved you don't really have to be an expert, you just need to be able to influence. You can be a boxer that draws millions of 👀💲, be president & cabinet, CEO and celebrity all at the same time. Like it , or hate it, it's the truth

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I can't do it. The more will be spoilers too. Nothing is sacred anymore 💔

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I don't think you have a choice. They only release one episode per week

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