GitHub Agentic Workflows: Schedule-driven and Event-driven AI Agents
GitHub now lets you build autonomous, schedule-driven or event-triggered AI agents using GitHub Actions and Copilot — here is why that matters.
How to create a Skill for GitHub Copilot
A pragmatic intro to Copilot Skills, including structure, setup, and a real review workflow example.
Taming Big .NET Solutions: Centralizing Build Settings and NuGet Versions
Learn how to simplify large .NET solutions by centralizing build settings, metadata, and NuGet package versions using Directory.Build.props, Directory.Build.targets, and Directory.Packages.props.
How to debug Microsoft Teams Apps
This blog post walks through a practical approach, from the easiest options to the most powerful (and least documented) ones.
Understanding stdin, stdout and stderr in .NET
A practical introduction for .NET developers to standard input, output, and error streams — with examples for the console, pipes, and redirection.
MSI and MST files
A (very) short overview of how MSI and MST files work together...
Fuslogvw.exe - blast from the past.
Or how to track down assembly loading problems...
Update an old SPFX Project
... TL;DR: Checkout the m365 CLI!
Handling Multiple ASP.NET Core Policies with Manual Authorization Checks
When implementing authorization in ASP.NET Core, Microsoft provides several ways to check multiple policies. While using multiple Authorize-attributes works in some or most cases, there are scenarios where a more flexible approach is needed.
Azure Resource Groups are not just dumb folders
You might hit some limitation based on existing resources in a resource group - let's see one example with App Service Plans.
WinINet, WinHTTP and the HttpClient from .NET
What is WinINet, WinHTTP and how is it related to the HttpClient from .NET?
Microsoft Defender Performance Analyzer
If you ever need to check, if Defender is slowing down your program...
OpenAI API, LM Studio and Ollama
What I learned about the OpenAI API, LM Studio and Ollama during a .NET User Group Meeting in Dresden...
Entity Framework Core 8.0 Breaking Changes & SQL Compatibility Level
If you are moving to .NET 8, be aware of this breaking change...
Connection Resiliency for Entity Framework Core and SqlClient
Retry... retry... argh.
UrlEncode the Space Character
Is it a '+' or '%20'?
dsregcmd, WAM and 'Connected to Windows'-Accounts
A (small) look at these tools...
SQL ConnectionString: Encrypt & Trust Server Certificate
TIL something about SQL Encryption
LLamaSharp: Run a ChatGPT like system on your hardware for dummies
Let's explore the LLamaSharp quick start...
dotnet dev-certs https - How .NET Issues Your Local Dev HTTPS Certificate
Discover how Visual Studio and other .NET Core-related tools enable HTTPS on your local development machine.