Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Sai Nitesh Palamakula lays out a practical path to API versioning in ASP.NET Core, explaining when to use URL, query string, header, or media type versions and the tradeoffs of each. This post shows how to wire up Asp.Versioning with Swagger and includes controller patterns for every strategy so your APIs can evolve without breaking clients.

Donie Sweeton demystifies launchSettings.json, the ASP.NET Core file that quietly tells Visual Studio and dotnet run how to start your app in development. This post gives a clear mental model of profiles, Kestrel versus IIS Express, and injected environment variables. You will see why machine specific ports cause Git conflicts and how a tidy launchSettings.json makes local ports, HTTPS, and Swagger behave.

Aliaksandr Marozka maps the .NET background job landscape for 2026, comparing .NET 9 BackgroundService, Hangfire, Quartz.NET, and Temporal through hard-won project lessons. This post highlights the production tradeoffs like retries with exponential backoff, observability, schedule complexity, and ops overhead, then boils them into a clear decision path so you know when a simple worker is enough and when to reach for a scheduler or a workflow engine.

Melisa Akkuş gives a crisp tour of C# lambda expressions, from the arrow syntax to when to use single-line vs block forms. This post shows how lambdas unlock readable LINQ, delegate-based APIs, and event handlers, and why so much of modern C# would feel clunky without them. Expect bite-size examples you can drop into everyday code.

Mariyam Ashai introduces the Agent to Agent Standard for interoperable AI and shows how to wire it up in .NET 8 with ASP.NET Core. In this post you build a tiny currency agent and a console client with the A2A and A2A.AspNetCore packages, learning how Agent Cards, Tasks, and message Parts create a reliable contract between agents.

Jeremy Likness gives .NET devs a clear, jargon-free tour of generative AI essentials, from tokens and embeddings to prompts, tools, RAG, MCP, and the idea of agents. If you are deciding how to evaluate models and wire up tool calls or a cloud to local workflow, this post delivers the mental model and vocabulary to move from experiments to real apps.

Ajay Kumar digs into TDD in .NET with a pragmatic lens, showing how common anti-patterns like test obsession, over mocking, and skipping refactoring quietly tank developer confidence and speed. In this post, C# examples contrast brittle implementation focused tests with behavior driven tests, and explain when TDD shines and when prototyping, UI heavy work, or performance sensitive code deserve a different approach. Expect practical guardrails like aiming for meaningful coverage, mocking only externals, and keeping feedback loops fast.

Aprillz's MewUI is an experimental, code-first .NET GUI library built for NativeAOT and trimming that swaps XAML for fluent C# markup. If you want to ship lean utilities that start fast and stay tidy, the samples show how far modern C# can go.

Dave Brock tours .NET 10 and C# 14 from an API developer's perspective, grounded in a realistic order management sample. This post highlights built-in Minimal API validation, OpenAPI 3.1 docs, EF Core 10 named query filters and server-sent events that trim boilerplate and improve safety, plus C# touches like field-backed properties and null-conditional assignment to simplify patches.

Raghunath explores how C# 14 upgrades lambda expressions with parameter modifiers like ref, in, and out, bringing them much closer to full method parity. If you care about intent-driven code, fewer allocations, and more expressive APIs, this reads like a handy roadmap.

James Miller spotlights .NET 10 and C# 14 upgrades that cut ceremony and sharpen performance. This post shows how the field keyword streamlines guarded properties, ref friendly lambdas avoid copies, and EF Core niceties like LeftJoin and JSON partial updates tame data work, with minimal API validation and single-file runs trimming the boilerplate.

Dmitry Tokmachev shows how to connect DevExpress Blazor AI Chat to Agent2Agent compliant AI agents with a lightweight adapter that translates A2A messages into IChatClient. The approach highlights why open agent standards matter for .NET apps by making cross-platform agents pluggable in a familiar chat UI.