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What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?

Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated them. One person commented: There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience. I wish it all came out of the bo...

Jan 11, 2025

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.NET Aspire Quick Tip – Managing Container & Data Lifetime

.NET Aspire enhances the local development process with its powerful orchestration feature for app composition. In the .NET Aspire App Host, you specify all the projects, executables, cloud resources,...

Jan 8, 2025

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Top .NET Videos & Live Streams of 2024

It has been an absolutely outstanding year of content for .NET from creators around the globe sharing their passion for .NET and the .NET team giving insight into the latest and greatest in the world ...

Jan 2, 2025

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Critical: .NET Install links are changing

We are currently making an unexpected change to the way that .NET installers and archives are distributed. This change may affect you and may require changes in your development, CI, and/or production...

Jan 2, 2025

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Top .NET Blogs Posts of 2024

In 2024, the .NET blog continued to be a central hub of knowledge, delivering valuable insights and updates straight from the source. With over 130 posts and more than 260,000 words published, these b...

Jan 2, 2025

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.NET Conf 2024 Recap – Celebrating .NET 9, AI, Community, & More

At .NET Conf 2024 we celebrated the official launch of .NET 9 alongside groundbreaking announcements across the entire .NET ecosystem and a deeper dive into the world of .NET for developers worldwide....

Jan 2, 2025

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Exploring Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData with Qdrant and Azure AI Search

Discover how to use Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData to implement semantic search using Qdrant and Azure AI Search. Dive into Semantic Search with Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData: Qdrant and Azure AI S...

Jan 2, 2025

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Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.4! Partial properties support for MVVM, new analyzers, and more!

We’re happy to announce the official launch of the 8.4 release of the .NET Community Toolkit! This new version includes support for partial properties for the MVVM Toolkit generators, new analyzers, b...

Jan 2, 2025

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Invoking Async Power: What Awaits WinForms in .NET 9

As .NET continues to evolve, so do the tools available to WinForms developers, enabling more efficient and responsive applications. With .NET 9, we’re excited to introduce a collection of new asynchro...

Jan 2, 2025

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Using Local AI models with .NET Aspire

Using local AI models can be a great way to experiment on your own machine without needing to deploy resources to the cloud. In this post, we’ll look at how use .NET Aspire with Ollama to run AI model...

Jan 2, 2025

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Using Dependabot to Manage .NET SDK Updates

Keeping your .NET SDK version up to date is crucial for maintaining secure and efficient applications. And now that Dependabot can update .NET SDK versions in global.json , it is easier than ever to m...

Jan 2, 2025

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Dramatically faster package restores with .NET 9’s new NuGet resolver

With the release of .NET 9 came a major leap for large .NET repositories: a new NuGet dependency graph resolver built to dramatically improve performance. If you’ve struggled with slow package restore...

Jan 2, 2025

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