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Learn Serilog in .NET from scratch. Setup, sinks, enrichers, appsettings configuration, and best practices for ASP.NET Core with .NET 9 and .NET 10. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/05/serilog-in-net-complete-guide-to-structured-logging
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This guide explores the essential role of the .NET host process, which initializes the runtime, resolves dependencies, and launches applications. It highlights common issues with lingering host processes, especially during BenchmarkDotNet runs, and offers diagnostic strategies to identify root causes, such as unclean …
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Learn NuGet package metadata best practices. Configure README files, icons, license expressions, tags, and repository URLs to make your .NET package shine on NuGet.org. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/04/nuget-package-metadata-best-practices-readme-icon-tags-and-license
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Explore monolith architecture in C# -- what it is, the types of monolithic architectures, when to use them, and how .NET developers work with each effectively. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/04/monolith-architecture-in-c-the-complete-guide
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Most of what runs on your servers was never meant to be public: databases, dashboards, admin panels, internal APIs. Tailscale connects your machines into one private, encrypted network so they can talk to each other (and to you) while the public internet sees nothing. Here's what it is and how to wire up applications …
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This week wraps up the C# Visitor pattern series with real-world examples, best practices, a decision guide, and step-by-step implementation, plus a complete guide to logging in .NET with ILogger, Serilog, and OpenTelemetry. There's also deep HttpClient in .NET 10 coverage on observability, resilience, streaming, and …
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Step-by-step guide to creating a NuGet package in C# using dotnet pack. Learn how to configure your .csproj, set package properties, and generate a .nupkg file. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/03/how-to-create-a-nuget-package-in-c-with-dotnet-pack
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How to implement HttpClient logging and observability in .NET 10 -- covering built-in ILogger integration, DelegatingHandler for custom request logging, OpenTelemetry tracing and metrics, and redacting sensitive headers in production. Link to article: …
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When I presented my study of a crash caused by a thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL, someone asked how I concluded that CcNamespace.dll was the ringleader of the fa Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260703-00/?p=112504
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Master logging in .NET with ILogger, structured logging, log levels, Serilog, and OpenTelemetry. Complete guide for .NET 9 and .NET 10 developers. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/03/logging-in-net-the-complete-developers-guide
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KotlinConf 2026 marked a milestone for the Kotlin community: the very first Golden Kodee Community Awards. The awards recognize the individuals and communities whose passion and dedication help the Kotlin ecosystem thrive. From creating educational content and building engaging online communities to organizing events, …
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Context In a recent engagement, the team built an LLM-based contract intelligence pipeline on Azure Databricks. The goal was to extract entitlements from a large corpus of inconsistently formatted service-contract PDFs — what is covered, on which equipment, and under which terms — so downstream systems can tell what is …
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Mock HttpClient C# in .NET 10: custom HttpMessageHandler stubs, DelegatingHandler interceptors, IHttpClientFactory wiring, and WebApplicationFactory tests. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/02/mock-httpclient-c-delegatinghandler-mock-handlers-and-integration-testing
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Understand what a NuGet package is, how the .nupkg format works, how the NuGet registry operates, and how package restore works in .NET projects. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/02/what-is-a-nuget-package-nupkg-format-and-the-nuget-registry-explained
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The talks are set for Pure Virtual C++ 2026, our free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. We're excited to reveal the featured session lineup and the speakers bringing it to you. Ma Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/pure-virtual-cpp-2026-talks-announced
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Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose a new challenge for security teams managing email systems, significantly raising the risk because of their advanced sophistication. Modern social engineers use generative …
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In this post, we share best practices for reliable multi-turn RL training. We cover how to build a training environment you can trust, set up an external evaluation, design a reward aligned with the end task, manage what changes once the agent runs for multiple turns, and monitor the metrics that tell you when to …
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Toolbox App 3.6 gives you better control over local storage and makes Windows installation failures easier to diagnose. Clean up removable Toolbox App data from Settings The Toolbox App now shows how much removable data it can safely clean up, providing a breakdown for the download cache, previous versions, temporary …
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Today we released the 16.2.0 version of AutoMapper and 14.2.0 version of MediatR:AutoMapper Release NotesMediatR Release NotesThis release is a bit more enterprise-focused, with extensions for setting the license keys via environment variables, fixing some threading issues around license key validation, and Link to …
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The Explorer team was investigating a crash that was occuring at a relatively high rate and found that it took the form of a thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL. 0:173> k RetAddr Call Site 00000000557c5820 <Unloaded_LibUtils_CloudNs_3.dll>+0x265fe 0000000000000008 <Unloaded_LibU Link to …
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