The Actor Model in a C# World

This post is the first in an occasional series on building a distributed system using Akka.NET. Check back as I add to this series. I was reminded of how much the Actor Model influenced me as a developer when I recently read Petabridge’s post about reflecting on 10 years of building Akka.NET. At first I thought, “oh my goodness - it’s been 10 years!!” and reflected on how much my life has changed over those 10 years.

Microsoft and Oracle announce that Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available | Microsoft Azure Blog

We are excited to share that Oracle Database@Azure is generally available, with more regions coming in 2024. Learn more.

Unlocking the Secrets of Managed Memory: Dive into Event Handler Leak Insights! - Visual Studio Blog

Event handler leaks have been around for a long time, and they are one of the peskiest issues WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) developers regularly deal with. You might be thinking: What makes event handler leaks so important? Event handler leaks are easy to cause, all it takes is to forget to unsubscribe to an event. Additionally, they are quite difficult to spot and even trickier to fix.The new insight added to the Visual Studio Managed Memory Usage Tool introduced in update 17.8 Preview 2 significantly trivializes the process of spotting/fixing these leaks. It provides information on which objects are leaking and the event it subscribed to.

How Generative AI is Revolutionizing Software Development ? - Learn using Mind Map

Discover the impact of Generative AI on the Software Development Life Cycle. Explore how it's reshaping each stage of software engineering and learn to harness its power for innovative software development

Upgrading your Xamarin Forms App to .NET MAUI | DevReach 2023

One of the questions the .NET MAUI team has heard the most is "What do I have to do to my Xamarin app to upgrade?". Good news - it's a really straightforward...

Automating Memory Profiling with the JetBrains dotMemory Profiler API - Steve Gordon - Code with Steve

In this post, I demonstrate a feature, to automate the collection of snapshots using the JetBrains dotMemory Profiler API.

Windows AI Studio

Windows AI Studio provides tools and a model catalog to help jumpstart local AI development and deployment on Windows.

Redacting sensitive data in logs with Microsoft.Extensions.Compliance.Redaction

In this post I show how you can add redaction to your [LogProperties] and [TagProvider] objects using the Microsoft.Extensions.Compliance.Redaction package

Rider 2023.3: Support for .NET 8 SDK, the Latest From C# 12, Performance Enhancements, Predictive Debugging, and More AI-powered Features. | The .NET Tools Blog

A major update for Rider has just been published! Rider 2023.3 offers support for the .NET 8 SDK, including the latest features from C# 12. Other enhancements include an improved experience when runni

JetBrains AI Launch Event

Join the #JetBrainsAI launch event online! December 6, 5:00 pm (CET) | 8:00 am (PST)Learn more about JetBrains AI and AI Assistant from the creators themselves.

Announcing SAFE Template v5 | Compositional IT

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Reddit - Dive into anything

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Building resilient cloud services with .NET 8 - .NET Blog

How to integrate resilience and into HTTP Client

Announcing ML.NET 3.0 - .NET Blog

Announcing ML.NET 3.0, with improvements for deep learning, DataFrame, performance, and more!

Announcing .NET Chiseled Containers - .NET Blog

.NET chiseled Ubuntu container images are now GA and can be used in production, for .NET 6, 7, and 8.

Railway Oriented Programming | F# for fun and profit

Slides and videos explaining a functional approach to error handling

Exploring .NET MAUI: The Future of Cross-Platform App Development?

One day, while discussing with my senior Venu Thomas about WPFs and all, I jokingly asked if I could turn that into an android. turns out…

The architecture of today's LLM applications

Here’s everything you need to know to build your first LLM app and problem spaces you can start exploring today.

"Running SaaS multi-tenant applications with ASP.NET Core and Azure" [eng] / Marco De Sanctis

This is a video from the .NET fwdays'23 online conference, which was held from June 15 to 20, 2023.Talk description:Real world multi-tenant applications are ...

Primary Constructors – Using C# 12 in Rider and ReSharper | The .NET Tools Blog

Welcome to our series, where we take a closer look at the C# 12 language features and how ReSharper and Rider make it easy for you to adopt them in your codebase. If you haven’t yet, download the

Analyzing Performance Issues in Microsoft .NET 8

The author details extensive performance benchmarking of .NET 8, showcasing its notable improvements but also highlighting areas of performance regression compared to .NET 6. The areas of regressio…

NVIDIA Introduces Generative AI Foundry Service on Microsoft Azure for Enterprises and Startups Worldwide

NVIDIA today introduced an AI foundry service to supercharge the development and tuning of custom generative AI applications for enterprises and startups deploying on Microsoft Azure.

The Visual Studio UI Refresh Preview is here! - Visual Studio Blog

The Visual Studio UI Refresh is available for preview in 17.9 preview 1. Find out how to enable it and about the new tinted themes!

Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI

Mira Murati will be the interim CEO.

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