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Two working paths in .NET 11: the built-in MapIdentityApi /refresh endpoint, and a custom JWT setup with refresh token rotation, family tracking, and reuse detection.

Upload multi-GB files to Azure Blob Storage from .NET 11 without loading them into memory. BlockBlobClient.UploadAsync with StorageTransferOptions, MultipartReader for ASP.NET Core uploads, and the buffering traps that put your payload on the LOH.

A 2026 playbook for CLAUDE.md files that Claude Code actually follows: the 200-line target, when to use path-scoped rules in .claude/rules/, @import hierarchy and 5-hop max depth, the user-message vs system-prompt gap, the line between CLAUDE.md and auto memory, and when to give up and write a hook instead. Anchored to Claude Code 2.1.x and verified against the official memory docs.

Claude Code v2.1.119 expands --from-pr beyond github.com. The CLI now accepts GitLab merge-request, Bitbucket pull-request, and GitHub Enterprise PR URLs, and a new prUrlTemplate setting points the footer PR badge at the right code-review host.

A practical, version-specific playbook for cutting .NET 11 Lambda cold starts. Covers Native AOT on provided.al2023, ReadyToRun, SnapStart on the managed dotnet10 runtime, memory tuning, static reuse, trim safety, and how to actually read INIT_DURATION.

Three ways to put Claude Code on a schedule that triages GitHub issues unattended in 2026: cloud Routines (the new /schedule), the claude-code-action v1 with cron + issues.opened, and the session-scoped /loop. Includes a runnable Routine prompt, a complete GitHub Actions YAML, jitter and identity gotchas, and when to pick which.

A complete .NET 11 walkthrough for shipping an ASP.NET Core minimal API with Native AOT: PublishAot, CreateSlimBuilder, source-generated JSON, the AddControllers limitation, IL2026 / IL3050 warnings, and EnableRequestDelegateGenerator for library projects.

EF Core builds its conceptual model lazily on the first DbContext access, which is why the first query in a fresh process is several hundred milliseconds slower than every query after it. This guide covers the three real fixes in EF Core 11: a startup IHostedService that touches Model and opens a connection, dotnet ef dbcontext optimize to ship a precompiled model, and the cache-key footguns that silently rebuild the model anyway.

A complete guide to global exception handling in ASP.NET Core 11: why IExceptionFilter is the wrong tool, how IExceptionHandler and UseExceptionHandler work together, ProblemDetails responses, multi-handler chains, and the .NET 10 diagnostics suppression breaking change.

GitHub Copilot for VS Code shipped Bring Your Own Key on April 22, 2026. Wire your own Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, or Azure account into Chat, or point at a local Ollama or Foundry Local model. Billing skips the Copilot quota and goes straight to the provider.