Blazor Community Standup: WebMCP in Action with Blazor
Yanislav Ivanov from Telerik joins us to show how Blazor components use WebMCP to expose actions directly to AI agents, enabling natural language prompts to drive real UI interactions. 🔗 Links: https://www.theurlist.com/blazor-standup-20260707 🎙️ Featuring: Daniel Roth, Javier Calvarro Nelson, Yanislav Ivanov #dotnet #aspnetcore #blazor
Your Enterprise Already Owns an AI Datacenter
For the past two years, enterprises have been searching for the most cost effective way to adopt AI. The journey has looked something like this: 0/ Use external AI providers. 1/ Watch token costs grow. 2/ Move to self hosted cloud GPUs. 3/ Discover you're now paying for infrastructure and operations too. I think there's a third path that many organizations haven't seriously explored. Look within. Most companies already own hundreds, sometimes thousands, of laptops, desktops, and workstations with significant compute power. That hardware has already been purchased. It's already managed. It's already sitting inside your organization. What if those machines could work together as a secure, private AI inference network? That's the idea behind **PeerLLM for Business**. Instead of continuously buying more compute, organizations can leverage the infrastructure they already own while keeping their AI local, private, and under their control. Enterprise AI shouldn't always start with purchasing more hardware. Sometimes it starts by making better use of the hardware you already have. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Is decentralized enterprise AI the next step, or do you think cloud GPUs will remain the dominant model? The video below explains the idea in more detail. Check out PeerLLM for business here: https://www.peerllm.com/business.html
Improvements to reading Process outputs: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 5
In this post I show some of the improvements to the Process API in .NET 11 for running processes and reading their outputs without risk of deadlock
How I Added a Full eSignature Workflow to my ASP.NET Core App
Learn how to add Syncfusion's BoldSign to an ASP.NET Minimal API and Vue3 frontend. We'll use BoldSign's MCP within Visual Studio Code to do the work for us. BoldSign API documentation https://bbb.dev/boldsign Signup for a free BoldSign account: https://bbb.dev/boldsign-signup BoldSign documentation: https://bbb.dev/boldsign-docs 🚀 FEEDBACK Don't forget to comment, like, hype and subscribe. I really value your feedback! 💧 MORE .NET TIPS & LINKS? Subscribed to the .NET Drip email newsletter. Weekly .NET tips and hand-curated links to help you level up your skills. https://dotnetdrip.com 💬 JOIN US MEMBERSHIP: https://bbb.dev/ytjoin DISCORD: https://bbb.dev/discord TWITCH: https://bbb.dev/twitch #csharp #dotnet #boldsign #syncfusion
No more Docker Desktop! WSL Containers are here with wslc!
Finally we will be able to run docker containers on Linux in WSL2 with an entirely native solution on Windows without third party software like Docker Desktop or Podman or Rancher! Thank you Based Microsoft for this! Full docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-container #coding #docker #dotnet
.NET MAUI Community Standup: SkiaSharp 4 has arrived!
SkiaSharp 4 is here! In this .NET MAUI Community Standup, Matthew Leibowitz, David Ortinau, and Gerald Versluis take a look at what’s new in SkiaSharp 4 and what it means for .NET MAUI developers. We’ll also highlight what the community has been up to over the past month, including MAUI UI July, recent releases, cool contributions, and other updates from the .NET MAUI ecosystem. 🔗 Links: https://www.theurlist.com/maui-standup-july26 🎙️ Featuring: David Ortinau (@davidortinau), Gerald Versluis (@jfversluis), Matthew Leibowitz (@mattleibow) #skiasharp #dotnetmaui #microsoft
.NET AI Community Standup: Why Orleans for AI Agents
Join Bruno Capuano and Konstantin Semenenko for a deep dive into building AI agents with .NET and Orleans. As AI applications evolve from simple prompts to complex, stateful systems, developers need architectures that can manage long-running conversations, coordinate distributed workloads, and operate reliably at scale. Orleans provides a powerful virtual actor model that naturally maps to the way modern AI agents think, act, and collaborate. In this session, Bruno and Konstantin will explore how Orleans enables scalable agent-based systems, simplifies state management, and provides a production-ready foundation for orchestrating distributed AI workloads. Through practical examples and real-world experiences, they'll discuss common architectural patterns, design decisions, and operational considerations for building reliable AI-driven applications. Whether you're experimenting with agent frameworks or designing enterprise-scale AI solutions, you'll learn why Orleans is becoming an important technology for developers building the next generation of intelligent systems. 🔗 Links: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/collections/m2dqt7t0xz0yww?source=docs 🎙️ Featuring: Bruno Capuano (https://www.linkedin.com/in/elbruno), Konstantin Semenenko (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ksemenenk0/) #DotNet #AIAgents #Orleans
MCP Beyond the Chat Window: Build Diagnostics in CI
<p>A practical tour of the Model Context Protocol tools for .NET build diagnostics - the full Binlog MCP toolset, how those tools run inside a GitHub Actions workflow, and what the evaluation data says about the efficiency gains.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/mcp-build-diagnostics-workflows/">MCP Beyond the Chat Window: Build Diagnostics in CI</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet">.NET Blog</a>.</p>
Closed class hierarchies: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 4
In this post I describe what a close closed hierarchy is, how to create one, and discuss why you might want to
Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# - Part 10: Finalizers
Using NativeAOT to write a .NET GC in C#. In this part, we add support for finalization.
.NET 8 and .NET 9 will reach End of Support on November 10, 2026
<p>.NET 8 and .NET 9 will both reach end of support on November 10, 2026. Learn what this means and how to upgrade to .NET 10 (LTS).</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-8-9-end-of-support/">.NET 8 and .NET 9 will reach End of Support on November 10, 2026</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet">.NET Blog</a>.</p>
SkiaSharp 4.0 is here: announcing the first stable release
<p>SkiaSharp 4.148.0 is the first stable release of SkiaSharp v4. Learn what is new, why you should be excited, and join the SkiaSharp live event on June 30.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/skiasharp-4-0-stable/">SkiaSharp 4.0 is here: announcing the first stable release</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet">.NET Blog</a>.</p>
Packaging and Package Identity for .NET apps with WinApp CLI on Windows
<p>Use the WinApp CLI to add identity to and package .NET desktop applications, enabling deeper integration to Windows and easier distribution.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/packaging-dotnet-apps-winapp/">Packaging and Package Identity for .NET apps with WinApp CLI on Windows</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet">.NET Blog</a>.</p>