If you’re building modern .NET Aspire apps, you’re probably familiar with how service names and resource identifiers are often passed around as string literals, things like "apiservice" or "storage".
Developing with ARM-based Surface Laptop Copilot+PC
This week I was excited to finally get my hands on a new PC for my personal use. I purchased one of the new ARM-based Surface Laptop Copilot+ PCs. As a developer focused on .NET and Azure, I was eager to see how well this sleek new machine could handle my day-to-day workflow.
While performance and battery life have impressed me so far, I’ve run into a few bumps in the road when it comes to local development, especially in areas that rely on platform-specific tooling or containerized environments. In this post, I’ll highlight a couple of early challenges I’ve encountered and what I did to work around them. I’ll update this post as I learn more and adapt my setup.
[Read More]User Group Events in July and August 2025
It’s shaping up to be a fun summer of sharing and learning, and I’d love for you to be part of it!
I’ve got three user group presentations lined up through the end of August, and whether you’re into Azure development, curious about agentic workflows, or just enjoy free pizza and great conversation (who doesn’t?), there’s something here for you.
Here’s where you can find me:
July 24: Getting Started with Azure Durable Task Scheduler
📆 Thursday, July 24th @ 5:30pm
[Read More]Navigating Microsoft's AI Landscape: From Microsoft.Extensions.AI to Semantic Kernel
It seems increasingly clear that Semantic Kernel is where Microsoft is investing for building modern, robust AI applications. In fact, Microsoft has stated as much: “Semantic Kernel (is) central to Microsoft’s enterprise AI story”.
In typical Microsoft fashion, they offer several seemingly competing options for developers to choose from, such as AutoGen, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, and probably a few others I’m forgetting right now. This variety doesn’t make it any easier for .NET developers to figure out where to get started and where to focus their upskilling efforts.
[Read More]Dotnet Run App
Have you ever had a moment of inspiration, an idea you wanted to test in C#, but didn’t want to spin up a full project just to run a few lines of code? Same here.
Well, with .NET 10 Preview 4, that pain is going away. Say hello to the new dotnet run app.cs feature.
It’s like C# finally took a page from Python and JavaScript, languages that have long made it easy to run a file with a single command. Now C# joins the party. 🎉
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