Monday, February 9, 2026

Sasha Ivanova highlights Rider and ReSharper 2025.3.2, adding ACP agent registry support to Rider's AI Chat and a batch of fixes that smooth everyday C# workflows. In this post Hot Reload is reliable again for Blazor WebAssembly and interceptor scenarios, MAUI analysis and Android deployment are corrected, inspections understand C# 14 extension members, and multi-targeted builds are steadier.

Hariram Subramanian breaks down when to use DatePicker, TimePicker, DateTimePicker, and Picker in .NET MAUI, mapping real app flows to the right control. This post highlights MVVM friendly bindings, cross platform consistency, and practical touches like cascading lists and dialog vs inline modes, topped off with a quick decision checklist and a GitHub sample. Expect guidance you can drop into scheduling, filtering, and everyday forms without fighting the UI.

Safia Abdalla explains how .NET Aspire bridges the configuration gap between Azure Functions triggers and Aspire client integrations using the IResourceWithAzureFunctionsConfig adapter. This post shows how WithReference injects the right environment variables for both emulator connection strings and identity based Azure setups, so Functions bindings and your SDK clients are happy without hand rolled config.

Scott Galloway lays out a beginner friendly, all local pipeline in C# to turn scanned text into structured entities using Tesseract for OCR and a BERT NER model via ONNX Runtime. You will learn how tokenization, inference, and BIO decoding fit together, how to merge WordPiece tokens, and when this deterministic approach beats an LLM on speed, cost, and privacy. A NuGet helper is coming, but the copy paste code here gets you from image to people, orgs, and places today.

Particular Software walks through setting up VS Code to build and debug NServiceBus solutions that span multiple projects. This post explains how to wire up tasks.json and launch.json, launch console and web endpoints, attach to running processes, and use compound configurations to debug several endpoints at once. Great for cross platform .NET work when you want Visual Studio level control in a lighter editor.

Lucy Njeri Muturi walks through Visual Studio 2026's AI-first upgrades, from Copilot's Cloud Agent and context-aware chat to adaptive paste and profiler assistance. This post highlights how these features smooth out real work like debugging failing tests, reviewing PRs, refactoring and setup through MCP while keeping you in control.

Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell talk with Shmueli Englard about real-world paths to ship Windows apps. This podcast digs into MSIX packaging, using the Microsoft Store for updates, licensing and payments, and when rolling your own updater makes more sense. Expect pragmatic pros and cons to help you choose a distribution model that fits your .NET app without surprises.

Walk through building a geo-analytics dashboard in .NET MAUI with Syncfusion Charts and Maps, wired up with MVVM and modular user controls. This post shows how a map selection drives KPIs, trend lines, and circular charts to explore real EV adoption data using XAML and C# bindings, with a sprinkle of mobile-friendly touches like bottom sheets.

Assis Zang digs into why APIs fail in the real world and shows how the Retry pattern keeps flaky integrations from derailing user experience. Using Polly 8 in ASP.NET Core, this post builds a resilience pipeline with exponential backoff, sensible retry conditions, and a minimal API that calls a secondary service.

Steve Gordon kicks off a series on transparently encrypting JSON properties with System.Text.Json using a TypeInfoResolver modifier instead of custom converters. This post shows an attribute-first, DI friendly approach that hooks JsonPropertyInfo get and set delegates so sensitive strings serialize as encrypted values and round-trip cleanly in a minimal API. It grounds the idea in real needs like storing OAuth tokens and sets up Azure Key Vault integration and crypto shredding for the next part.

André Silva shows how to tame scattered feature flags in .NET by composing multiple providers behind a single OpenFeature client. This post walks through wiring OpenFeature.Providers.MultiProvider with dependency injection, choosing strategies like FirstMatchStrategy, and applying patterns such as primary plus fallback, gradual migrations, and tenant routing. A practical path to vendor-agnostic flags without rewriting call sites.

Chris Woodruff opens a free htmx + ASP.NET Core Razor Pages workshop that swaps the SPA tax for server-rendered fragments and a clean hypermedia loop. This post includes step-by-step labs, instructions, and a GitHub repo so you can carry these patterns into real apps with less JavaScript baggage.