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2026-05-26 comparison blazor dotnet

Blazor Server vs Blazor WebAssembly vs Blazor United in .NET 11: which should you pick in 2026?

For any new Blazor app on .NET 11, scaffold a Blazor Web App (the template formerly nicknamed Blazor United) and pick render modes per page. Server-only and WebAssembly-only templates only still make sense in narrow cases.

2026-05-26 ef-core dotnet-11 sql-server

EF Core 11 Preview 4: Temporal Table Period Columns Can Finally Be Real Properties

EF Core 11 Preview 4 drops the long-standing shadow-property restriction on SQL Server temporal tables. PeriodStart and PeriodEnd can now be regular CLR properties, configured with strongly-typed HasPeriodStart and HasPeriodEnd lambdas.

2026-05-25 comparison csharp dotnet

List<T> vs Span<T> vs ReadOnlySpan<T> in C#: when to reach for which

List<T> is a growable heap collection; Span<T> and ReadOnlySpan<T> are stack-only views over memory you already own. Use List<T> for anything you store, return from async, or grow; Span<T> for a mutable allocation-free view in a synchronous method; ReadOnlySpan<T> for read-only parsing over strings, u8 literals, and slices.

2026-05-25 comparison csharp dotnet

Parallel.ForEach vs Parallel.ForEachAsync vs Task.WhenAll in C#

Use Parallel.ForEach for CPU-bound work over in-memory data, Parallel.ForEachAsync for async I/O over many items with a concurrency cap, and Task.WhenAll for a small fixed fan-out where you want every operation in flight and need the results back.

2026-05-25 comparison csharp dotnet

StringBuilder vs string interpolation in .NET 11: which should you use?

Use string interpolation for one-shot composition of a fixed set of values; use StringBuilder when you append in a loop or across an unknown number of pieces. The dividing line is the loop, not the number of values.

2026-05-24 uipath rpa dotnet

Add Project Settings to a UiPath Package: Design-Time and Runtime

How to add a custom category to UiPath's Project Settings from your activity package, register fields at design time via IRegisterWorkflowDesignApi, and read those values back at runtime through IExecutorRuntime — with the App Insights instrumentation key as the example.

2026-05-24 uipath rpa dotnet

Building a UiPath Activity Package for Modern Studio with ViewModels

A modern UiPath custom activity needs more than a CodeActivity: a DesignPropertiesViewModel, an embedded metadata file for the toolbox, private host-supplied references, and the right System.Activities assembly version. Here's the whole recipe.

2026-05-24 dotnet nuget msbuild

Independently Releasing Multiple NuGet Packages with MinVer + Trusted Publishing

One repo, three NuGet packages, independent versions. Per-package MinVer tag prefixes, a tag-driven GitHub Actions release that publishes via OIDC trusted publishing (no API key), pinning a cross-package dependency to a real version, and the default-branch gotcha that silently swallows your first tag.

2026-05-24 comparison csharp dotnet

lock vs Monitor vs SemaphoreSlim vs System.Threading.Lock in C#

Four ways to guard a critical section in C#, and a decision matrix for picking one. Use System.Threading.Lock for synchronous mutual exclusion on .NET 9+, SemaphoreSlim when the section spans an await, and Monitor only when you need Wait/Pulse.

2026-05-24 microsoft-agent-framework ai-agents dotnet

How to Author a Function Tool in the Microsoft Agent Framework: Inline, Method, or Class

If you came from Semantic Kernel looking for 'skills,' the Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 calls them function tools and builds every one from AIFunctionFactory.Create. Here are the three ways to author one in C# -- an inline lambda, a named method, or a class of related tools -- plus what the declarative YAML 'file' approach can and cannot do.