Daily notes on .NET, C#, EF Core, MAUI, Blazor, and Flutter - for developers who ship.

Signal, WaitForExitStatus, and ProcessExitStatus land directly on System.Diagnostics.Process in .NET 11 RC 1, so graceful shutdown of a child process no longer needs a kill P/Invoke or a SafeProcessHandle detour.

EF Core emits [col] json '$.path' AS JSON inside OPENJSON WITH, which Azure SQL rejects with Msg 13618. Upgrade to EF Core 10.0.11+, or drop the provider compatibility level to 160.

Since August 21, 2026 mentioning @GitHub in Slack starts a Copilot cloud agent session the whole channel can steer. Here is the setup, the Slack Code channel model, why the pull request comes from an app identity instead of you, what the thread context capture actually exposes, and how the two separate billing meters add up.

dotnet ef throws MissingMethodException on ArgumentIsEmpty because Tools 10.0.6 stopped pulling a matching Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design. Pin Design explicitly to your EF Core version.

Cursor's Self-Hosted Machines, shipped September 2, 2026, move Cloud Agent tool calls onto hardware you own while inference stays in Cursor's cloud. The agent worker CLI, My Machines vs Team Pools, the three outbound hosts, and the data that still leaves your network.

dart fix takes one target directory and it can be the repo root: the analyzer opens a context per nested pubspec.yaml and migrates every package in one pass. Here is the full flag surface, the four things that silently suppress fixes and make a dirty repo report Nothing to fix, why the exit code is useless in CI, and a case where a Flutter transform emits code that does not compile.

ImageIcon flattens a multi-color PNG into a silhouette because it always applies ColorFilter.mode(iconThemeColor, BlendMode.srcIn). Flutter 3.47 adds useOriginalColors to switch that off. Here is why passing color: null never worked, what useOriginalColors silently drops, and the hand-rolled replacement for older SDKs.

The Rider 2026.3 Early Access Program opened on September 7, 2026. Buried under rainbow brackets is the one line that changes a build: dotCover now reports coverage for TUnit tests, given Microsoft.Testing.Platform 2.3.0 and one package reference.

Claude Code 2.1.260 adds a likely-cause diagnosis to the Prompt cache (main) line in /usage and to the prompt_cache status line object. Instead of just counting misses, it tells you whether the tool set changed, the system prompt changed, or the TTL expired.

The agent-framework-hosting packages are conversion helpers, not a runtime. One Agent instance, one AgentState, and three thin adapters give you a Telegram bot, an A2A peer, and an MCP tool from the same process. Here is the wiring, the per-channel session-ID policy, and the four things each channel refuses to do.