Tag: dotnet

EF Core 11 queries implement IAsyncEnumerable<T> directly. Here is how to stream rows with await foreach, when to prefer it over ToListAsync, and the gotchas around connections, tracking, and cancellation.

A HMAC validation flaw in Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection 10.0.0 through 10.0.6 lets attackers forge ciphertexts. .NET 10.0.7 is the mandatory fix.

Visual Studio 18.5 GA ships a guided Debugger Agent workflow in Copilot Chat that forms a hypothesis, sets breakpoints, rides along through a repro, validates against runtime state, and proposes a fix.

Visual Studio 2026 18.5.0 lets GitHub Copilot load Agent Skills from .github/skills, .claude/skills, and ~/.copilot/skills. Reusable SKILL.md instruction packs travel with your repo.

.NET 11 Preview 3 teaches RyuJIT to eliminate redundant bounds checks on consecutive index-from-end access and on i + constant < length patterns, cutting branch pressure in tight loops.

.NET 11 Preview 3 adds RegexOptions.AnyNewLine so ^, $, \Z, and . recognize every Unicode newline sequence, including \r\n, NEL, LS, and PS, with \r\n treated as one atomic break.

Aspire 13.2 ships an --isolated flag that gives each aspire run its own random ports and secrets store. It unblocks multi-checkout work, agent worktrees, and integration tests that need a live AppHost.

dotnet run -e in .NET 11 Preview 3 passes environment variables straight from the CLI and surfaces them as MSBuild RuntimeEnvironmentVariable items.

dotnet watch gains Aspire app host integration, automatic relaunch after crashes, and fixed Ctrl+C handling for Windows desktop apps in .NET 11 Preview 3.

Loic Baumann's Typhon project targets 1-2 microsecond ACID commits using ref structs, hardware intrinsics, and pinned memory, proving C# can compete at the systems programming level.