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This crash means you read a late field before anything assigned it. Initialize it synchronously in initState, or stop using late and model the async value as nullable state.

The ! operator hit a null at runtime. Replace it with ?. and ?? for a safe default, or guard with an explicit null check, instead of asserting a value that was not there.

Extension properties land in C# 14 through the new extension block. Declare get-only, settable, static, and generic extension properties, why auto-properties are rejected, and how the compiler lowers them to get_/set_ accessors.

Cursor 3.7+ lets you run Bugbot before you push with the /review command. Here is how local review works, how the patch ID dedup stops you paying twice, and the one thing it cannot do yet.

A step-by-step guide to taking a Microsoft Agent Framework agent from your laptop to a managed Foundry Hosted Agent: the C# host code, the azd deploy flow, identity, scaling, and the gotchas that bite in preview.

.NET 11 Preview 5 adds the #:ref directive so a dotnet run script can reference another file-based app as a library, with transitive references and no project file.

Replace Skip/Take with a WHERE clause that seeks past the last row you saw. Order by a fully unique key, carry the last row's values as a cursor, and EF Core 11 turns the next page into an index seek instead of an OFFSET scan.

Map a nested type to a single JSON column with ComplexProperty(...).ToJson(), let EF Core 11 store it in the native SQL Server 2025 json type, then query into it with LINQ that translates to JSON_VALUE, JSON_CONTAINS, and JSON_PATH_EXISTS.

Register more than one implementation of the same interface under a key with AddKeyedSingleton/Scoped/Transient, then resolve them with [FromKeyedServices], GetRequiredKeyedService, or KeyedService.AnyKey. The keyed and non-keyed registries are separate, which is the gotcha that bites most people.

Microsoft is building dotnetup, an official cross-platform tool to install, track, and switch between .NET SDKs and runtimes. Here is what it does and where it stands in June 2026.