How to use EF Core 11 interceptors for auditing
Stamp CreatedBy/ModifiedOn columns and write a full change-trail with an ISaveChangesInterceptor in EF Core 11, including the DI lifetime, current-user, and ExecuteUpdate gotchas.
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GitHub Copilot SDK Hits GA: Embed Copilot's Agent Runtime in Your Own C# Apps
At Build 2026 GitHub shipped Copilot SDK 1.0 GA with a first-class .NET package. You can now drive the same planning, tool-calling, and multi-turn agent runtime from C# code, BYOK included.
How to organize minimal API endpoints with MapGroup in ASP.NET Core 11
A complete guide to structuring minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 11 with MapGroup: per-resource endpoint modules as extension methods, nested groups, shared filters and auth, route-parameter prefixes, OpenAPI tags, and the filter-ordering rules that surprise people.
How to validate request bodies in minimal APIs without controllers in ASP.NET Core 11
ASP.NET Core 11 has built-in validation for minimal APIs: call AddValidation, annotate your request record with DataAnnotations, and a source generator validates the bound model and returns 400 ProblemDetails before your handler runs. No controllers, no FluentValidation, no manual checks.
Microsoft Agent Framework vs Semantic Kernel for a Greenfield .NET Agent
For a new .NET agent in 2026, start on Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0. Semantic Kernel is in maintenance mode. Here is the side-by-side and the one case where SK still wins.
Migrate from ValueTask<T> back to Task<T>: when and why (.NET 11, C# 14)
A practical checklist for reverting ValueTask and ValueTask<T> return types to Task and Task<T>, what breaks at the call sites, how to verify each change, and how to know whether the swap was ever worth it.
Migrate a Blazor Server app to Blazor United (Blazor Web App) in .NET 11
A step-by-step checklist to move a standalone Blazor Server app to the unified Blazor Web App template on .NET 11, keeping every page on InteractiveServer with zero behaviour change.
Migrate from in-process Azure Functions to the isolated worker model (.NET 8 / .NET 11)
A step-by-step checklist to move a .NET in-process Azure Functions app to the isolated worker model before the November 10, 2026 retirement, with csproj diffs, signature rewrites, and a slot-swap rollout.
EF Core ExecuteUpdate vs loading entities and SaveChanges: which should you use?
A decision guide and real benchmark for EF Core 11: use ExecuteUpdate for set-based writes by a predicate, and the load-then-SaveChanges path only when you need the change tracker, interceptors, or a complex object graph.
.NET 11 Can Round-Trip a Double as Hex, Bit for Bit
.NET 11 Preview 4 teaches double, float, and Half to format with the X specifier and parse with NumberStyles.HexFloat, producing the same IEEE-754 hex text as C printf("%a").