Monday, March 2, 2026

Jeremy D. Miller recaps a whirlwind of Wolverine releases that sharpen concurrency control, durability, and integrations across the .NET stack. This post spotlights inferred message grouping, classic EF Core domain events, fresh transports like HTTP and NATS, and easier idempotency so teams can ship resilient message driven services with less ceremony.

Carl and Richard sit down with Damien Brady on .NET Rocks! to explore what reliable software looks like in 2026 and how AI fits into the picture. This podcast shares pragmatic ways to use LLMs for code analysis and reviews to raise quality, while reminding us that practice, guardrails, and developer judgment still matter.

Mori shares how role checks spiral out of control in real apps, then introduces permission authorization in ASP.NET Core 10 to model what users can do rather than who they are. This post sets the stage for policies, requirements, and permission claims that keep controllers clean and access consistent across UI and business logic.

Serhat Kaçmaz tackles the habit of stuffing every cross-cutting concern into middleware and lays out clear boundaries between middleware, MVC filters, MediatR pipeline behaviors, and decorators. With concise .NET 8 examples, this post shows validation via a MediatR pipeline behavior and caching with a repository decorator to keep business logic clean and HTTP agnostic.

Leomaris Reyes shows how to plug custom fonts into .NET MAUI the right way, from dropping files in Resources/Fonts to wiring up ConfigureFonts and using a clean alias in XAML. This post also highlights when Android's built-in fonts are enough so you can polish your UI without shipping extra assets.

Compile & Conquer demystifies DbContext in EF Core, showing how connection management, change tracking, query translation, transactions, and the identity map quietly drive behavior when your data acts weird. This post explains why scoped lifetime keeps things correct and fast while transient silently loses work and singleton piles up stale, thread-unsafe state, giving you a solid mental model to diagnose bugs and design safer services.

This edition of the .NET AI Community Standup features Bruno Capuano and Brady Gaster discussing Squad, an AI development team that forms to bring your ideas to life. Using five specific agent roles (lead, frontend, backend, tester and scribe), it's not a chatbot wearing hats. Each team member runs in its own context, reads only its own knowledge, and writes back what it learned.

Héctor Pérez walks through Telerik UI for Blazor's Diagram component, from placing a TelerikDiagram and adding shapes and connections to using tree, layered or force layouts so you can sketch workflows and org charts without wrestling with pixel math. This post highlights practical touches like labels, end caps and selection handles, and points to JSON and styling options when you need deeper customization.

Milan Jovanović shows how .NET 9's HybridCache nails speed with L1 plus L2 caching, yet still needs an invalidation backplane to keep multi-node apps consistent. This post implements Redis Pub/Sub with a background listener to fan out cache removals and also highlights FusionCache as a compatible HybridCache option with a built-in backplane.

Leomaris Reyes spotlights six underrated .NET MAUI Button properties, from TextTransform and CharacterSpacing to FontAutoScalingEnabled and LineBreakMode, to help you build buttons that look sharp and behave right on every device. With short XAML examples and practical notes on accessibility and responsiveness, this post shows how to round corners, manage text flow, and keep font sizes aligned with user settings for a more polished app.

MESCIUS shows how to bring MermaidJS text-based diagrams into WinForms using the ComponentOne FlexDiagram control, parsing Mermaid syntax and rendering interactive visuals with a single LoadMermaidGraph call. Beyond the how, this post explains why text-first diagrams fit real apps like workflow editors and documentation tools, with concise C# examples for loading from embedded resources or strings.

Jeremy Likness kicks off .NET AI Essentials by showing how Microsoft.Extensions.AI gives you a single, provider-agnostic API for OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Ollama, with DI-friendly patterns, streaming, and typed structured outputs that spare you the JSON wrangling. This post focuses on the real-world bits like standardized options, middleware with logging and OpenTelemetry, Aspire-friendly tracing, and multimodal content that make LLM features production ready, with vectors, agents, and MCP coming next.