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A singleton cannot inject a DbContext, but it can inject IDbContextFactory<T>, because AddDbContextFactory registers the factory as a singleton by default. Create and dispose one context per call, never cache the instance.

MCP 2026-07-28 mirrors the JSON-RPC method and target name into HTTP headers so a gateway can route, throttle, and audit without parsing the body. Here is a working gateway, plus the header-body agreement rule that will bite you.

.NET 11 Preview 7 adds password-protected ZIP entries to System.IO.Compression, with AES-256 support, options types for whole-directory operations, and one empty-file bug that is already fixed in main.

Pick by the return type of build(): T means Notifier, FutureOr<T> means AsyncNotifier, Stream<T> means StreamNotifier. Here is the decision matrix, the type hierarchy that explains why, and the == filtering and state-clobbering gotchas that bite each one. Verified against flutter_riverpod 3.4.2 on Flutter 3.44.2.

A write tool that asks before it writes needs three things the MCP SDK does not give you: an approval bound to the exact diff, a precondition on the file it previewed, and an integrity-protected requestState. Verified end to end on @modelcontextprotocol/server 2.0.0 against protocol revision 2026-07-28, including the argument-swap that gets past a naive confirm.

Scalar ships 1.02 MiB of gzipped JavaScript and a far better request builder. Swagger UI ships 514 KiB and renders OpenAPI 3.2, which is what .NET 11 now emits by default. Measured payloads, the 3.2 gap, endpoint routing on both sides, and the auth details that decide it.

Zstandard is the right default for dynamic API responses in .NET 11, but not at the quality the ASP.NET Core provider ships with. Benchmarks on real JSON payloads showing why quality 1 beats the default quality 3 on both size and CPU, when Brotli still wins, and why Gzip survives only as a fallback.

The SDK Manager is re-unpacking a corrupt archive it cached in .downloadIntermediates. Delete that folder and the half-extracted ndk/<version> directory, then re-run the build.

Play rejects the bundle because a 64-bit .so still has 4 KB ELF segments. Find the offending library, rebuild it with NDK r28+, and verify with zipalign -P 16.

iOS blocks the Dart VM from flipping memory pages to executable, so JIT dies at startup. Upgrade to Flutter 3.35.0 or later for iOS 26, 3.32.0 for iOS 18.4. There is no entitlement that fixes it.