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A plain-language guide to C# source generators: what they actually do, how the IIncrementalGenerator pipeline works, when they beat reflection or T4, and the cases where you should not reach for one. With runnable examples on .NET 11 and C# 14.

Native AOT compiles your .NET app to a single self-contained native binary with no JIT, buying fast startup and a small memory footprint. The price is a C toolchain at build time, slower publishes, per-RID builds, no reflection or Reflection.Emit, mandatory trimming, and no Dynamic PGO. Here is the full ledger.

A step-by-step migration from an inline FutureBuilder widget to a Riverpod AsyncNotifier in a real Flutter app: move the async work out of build, expose it as a provider, render with .when() or switch pattern matching, and add refresh and mutation methods. Tested on Flutter 3.44, Dart 3.x, flutter_riverpod 3.3.2.

Reading session state in static server-rendered Blazor meant reaching into HttpContext.Session and serializing by hand. .NET 11 Preview 5 adds [SupplyParameterFromSession] so a component property binds to a session key directly.

By default a local Cursor SDK agent runs every tool call without asking. Set local.autoReview to route Shell, MCP, and Fetch calls through the classifier, then steer it with the autoRun block in permissions.json. With code, the three-step evaluation order, and why none of it is a security boundary.

A version-pinned guide to moving a legacy Flutter 2.x app to a current Flutter 3.x release, with the sound null safety migration as the hard gate: why you need a two-hop path through Dart 2.19, what dart migrate does, and what breaks along the way.

A step-by-step migration from the provider package to Riverpod 3.x in a real Flutter app: ChangeNotifierProvider to Notifier, MultiProvider to ProviderScope, context.watch to ref.watch, ProxyProvider to ref.watch composition, plus the equality and lifecycle gotchas that bite. Tested on Flutter 3.27.1, Dart 3.11, provider 6.1.5, flutter_riverpod 3.3.1.

A step-by-step migration from Swashbuckle.AspNetCore to Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi in .NET 11: swapping AddSwaggerGen for AddOpenApi, converting operation, schema, and document filters to transformers, keeping a UI, and the Microsoft.OpenApi v2 breaking changes that bite.

Use AsNoTracking for read-only queries by default. Reach for AsNoTrackingWithIdentityResolution only when the result graph contains the same entity more than once and your code depends on getting a single shared instance back.

For months availableModels restricted the model picker but left the Default option wide open. Claude Code 2.1.175 adds enforceAvailableModels so admins can finally pin a strict model allowlist.