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EF Core 11 groups Cosmos DB writes into transactional batches per container and partition on every SaveChanges, giving best-effort atomicity and fewer roundtrips without any code changes.

C# strings sent through Dapper default to nvarchar(4000), forcing SQL Server into implicit conversions and full index scans. Here's how to fix it with DbType.AnsiString.

GitHub Copilot Modernization is pitched as an Assess, Plan, Execute loop for migrating legacy .NET apps. The assessment phase is where the value lives: an inventory report, categorized blockers, and file-level remediation guidance you can diff like code.

Visual Studio 2026 adds HotReloadAutoRestart, a project-level opt-in that restarts the app when a rude edit would otherwise end the debug session. It is especially useful for Razor and Aspire projects.

ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 2 brings TempData to Blazor static server-side rendering, enabling flash messages and Post-Redirect-Get flows without workarounds.

C# 15 adds the with(...) element to collection expressions, letting you pass capacity, comparers, and other constructor arguments directly in the initializer.

.NET 11 Preview 1 ships ZstandardStream, ZstandardEncoder, and ZstandardDecoder in System.IO.Compression, giving you fast, inbox zstd support with no third-party packages.

The dotnet ef database update command now accepts --add to scaffold and apply a migration in a single step. Here is how it works, why it matters for containers and .NET Aspire, and what to watch for.

EF Core 11 Preview 2 supports SQL Server 2025 VECTOR_SEARCH() and DiskANN vector indexes directly from LINQ. Here is how to set up the index, run approximate queries, and what changes from the EF Core 10 VectorDistance approach.

Fluorite is an open-source 3D game engine that embeds Google Filament rendering inside Flutter widgets and lets you write game logic in Dart.