Tag: dotnet

If GetConnectionString returns null in .NET 11, your appsettings.json is missing the key, not copied to the build output, or the wrong environment file is being selected. Three checks fix 95% of cases.

Wire an EF Core 10 DbContext into a Model Context Protocol server so Claude Code, Cursor, or any compliant client can run safe, scoped queries against your database. Covers IDbContextFactory lifetime, read-only projections, schema discovery tools, AsNoTracking, parameterised filters, row-level scoping, and the destructive-tool gates you need before letting an agent touch UPDATE.

Three ways to wrap a T[] in a ReadOnlyMemory<T> in .NET 11: the implicit conversion, the explicit constructor, and AsMemory(). When each is the right call.

Wire AIFunctionFactory.Create, ChatOptions.Tools, and ChatClientBuilder.UseFunctionInvocation in Microsoft.Extensions.AI 10.5 so an IChatClient can call your .NET methods automatically. Covers OpenAI and Azure OpenAI providers, the FunctionInvokingChatClient knobs that actually matter (iteration limits, concurrent calls, approval prompts, error handling), and streaming responses with tools.

Microsoft's new Microsoft.AgentGovernance package wraps MCP tool calls with a policy kernel, a security scanner, and a response sanitizer. Here is what each piece does and how the wiring looks in C#.

Take an existing Semantic Kernel plugin with [KernelFunction] methods and turn it into a Model Context Protocol server other agents can call. Covers the drop-in WithTools(kernel) bridge, the native [McpServerTool] rewrite, parameter binding, dependency injection, and the gotchas that bite during the cutover.

A complete guide to wiring Serilog 4.x and Seq 2025.2 into a .NET 11 ASP.NET Core app: AddSerilog vs UseSerilog, two-stage bootstrap logging, JSON configuration, enrichers, request logging, OpenTelemetry trace correlation, API keys, and the production gotchas around buffering, retention, and signal level.

Wire OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs into a .NET 11 ASP.NET Core app with the OTLP exporter, then ship them to a free, self-hosted backend: the standalone Aspire Dashboard for local dev, Jaeger and SigNoz for self-hosted production, and the OpenTelemetry Collector when you need both.

A complete guide to running ASP.NET Core integration tests against a real SQL Server 2022 using Testcontainers 4.11 and EF Core 11: WebApplicationFactory wiring, IAsyncLifetime, swapping the DbContext registration, applying migrations, parallelism, Ryuk cleanup, and CI gotchas.

Claude Code v2.1.122 adds the ANTHROPIC_BEDROCK_SERVICE_TIER environment variable, sent as the X-Amzn-Bedrock-Service-Tier header. Set it to flex for a 50 percent discount on agent calls or priority for faster responses, without touching SDK code.