.NET Day on Agentic Modernization Coming Soon

"Azure SQL: Optimizing BACPAC Imports - SqlPackage Done Right!" - excellent post on how to make .bacpac imports run fast! #azuresql #sqlserver #dacfx #sqlpackage

Reinventing how .NET Builds and Ships (Again)

Supercharge Your Test Coverage with GitHub Copilot Testing for .NET

A step-by-step guide to modernizing .NET applications with GitHub Copilot agent mode

Post-Quantum Cryptography in .NET

Use passwordless auth with Azure SQL database ! Looks like the undocumented syntax of SID = xxx, TYPE = E is finally supported for Azure SQl Database! And nice to see my contribution to EntityFramework 6.5 listed! #sqlserver #azuresql #entraid

New times!

Introducing F# 10

Introducing C# 14

My presentation from .NET Conf 2025 "Let's create an MCP Server from our .NET tool - and improve our SQL scripts with Copilot" is now available for viewing. Watch to the 6 simple steps to make your .NET Tool into a local MCP Server #dotnet #mcp #ai #dotnetconf

I maintain a free Visual Studio extension to improve the workflow for SQL Database projects of any variety. In the latest release I have added support for creating seed data (merge scripts) to populate tables as part of your .dacpac package. #sqlserver #visualstudio #dacfx

Announcing .NET 10

.NET and .NET Framework November 2025 servicing releases updates

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA) - with the same modern look and feel like Visual Studio 2026! #sqlserver #visualstudio buff.ly/akQKHDs

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA) - with the same modern look and feel like Visual Studio 2026! #sqlserver #visualstudio buff.ly/akQKHDs

Visual Studio 2026 will go GA today 🥳 - and it has a LOT of great new features. One of them is built-in support for Mermaid diagrams for database schemas and more - I give an intro in the new episode of the "Visual Studio Toolbox" show #mermaidjs #visualstudio

How Copilot Studio uses .NET and WebAssembly for performance and innovation

Get Ready for .NET Conf 2025!

Do you miss the SDK Style database projects with cross platform build and NuGet reference support in Visual Studio 2026? No need to worry, I got your back! #sqlserver #database #visualstudio #vs2026 buff.ly/1NXiMi1

Jaliya Udagedara always publishes excellent content on his blog! Latest installment: EF Core 10.0: Support for Partially Updating JSON Columns with ExecuteUpdate/ExecuteUpdateAsync buff.ly/b6tfs1P #dotnet #efcore

Let's look at the improvements we've made in Search in Visual Studio 2026. Visual Studio Toolbox walks us through them. 🎥 ➡️ msft.it/63325shY9c #VSToolbox #VisualStudio

Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert

Looking forward to the release of .NET 10, watching #dotnetconf and sharing my session "Let's create an MCP Server from our .NET tool - and improve our SQL scripts with Copilot" #dotnet #mcp #mvpbuzz

1.5 million installs of my free SQLite Toolbox extension for Visual Studio - unbelievable! If YOU use SQLite with Visual Studio, you should try it out.

New release of my SQL Project Power Tools extension for enhancing the SQL Projects developer experience in Visual Studio - now with simple schema compare for SDK style projects #sqlserver #dotnet #visualstudio

Do you use the SQL Server stress testing tool that I maintain? Make sure to get the latest version, with support for SQL Server 2025 and Fabric SQL database & built-in update check. #sqlserver #dotnet #performance

Announcing Sponsorship on NuGet.org

Upgrading to Microsoft Agent Framework in Your .NET AI Chat App

Just added the ability to make your Aspire AppHost start much faster with SQL Database Projects by skipping deployment when not needed - .WithSkipWhenDeployed() #dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver

Level up your SQL Database project experience with the "SQL Database Project Power Pack" - with cross platform & NuGet support, live code analysis & formatting with .editorconfg settings #visualstudio #sqlserver #dotnet

Just added the ability to make your Aspire AppHost start much faster with SQL Database Projects by skipping deployment when not needed - .WithSkipWhenDeployed() #dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver

Just blogged: Reduce SQL Database Project deployment time from minutes to single digit seconds with DacDeploySkip #dotnet #sqlserver #deployment #devops erikej.github.io/dacfx/perfor...

Just blogged: Get a 180% speed increase on large async reads with Microsoft .Data.SqlClient (and EF Core) - here is how to turn it on! #dotnet #efcore #sqlserver #performance buff.ly/SDVohv0

If you suffer under slow blob reads with SqlClient, try out 7.0 preview 2! #dotnet #sqlserver

.NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates

Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2

Announcing the .NET Security Group

Do you deploy your SQL Database Projects with a CD pipeline, and notice that .dacpac deployments take sooo much time - even when nothing changes? Working on a solution (down to milliseconds) - but I need your help to verify it. Please reply or contact me via GitHub if you are interested.

📣 .NET Conf is on its way!! 🎉 Celebrate and learn about what you can do with .NET 10 at the biggest .NET virtual event in the world! November 11-13 〰️ Save the date msft.it/63328sL6vs #dotNETConf

Preparing for the .NET 10 GC (DATAS)

Developer and AI Code Reviewer: Reviewing AI-Generated Code in .NET

New release of "SQL Project Power Tools" - new features: - import of database settings - support for Microsoft.Build.Sql projects #sqlserver #visualstudio marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

New release of SQLite Toolbox for Visual Studio with support for Visual Studio 2026 Insiders - if you use SQLite in Visual Studio you need this (like 1.5 million current users!!) #dotnet #sqlite #visualstudio

Do you use SQLite Toolbox with Visual Studio 2026? - please help me confirm that it no longer crashes when adding a new SQLite connection. Download and try the latest daily build: buff.ly/b1yrJPb

Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio - a collection of tools to improve developer UX in Visual Studio 2026 and 2022 #dotnet #sqlserver #visualstudio buff.ly/bqxUxJZ

Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer

Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio - a collection of tools to improve developer UX in Visual Studio 2026 and 2022 #dotnet #sqlserver #visualstudio buff.ly/bqxUxJZ

EF Core 10.0: Support for Complex Types without using Owned Entities #dotnet #efcore

EF Core 10.0: Support for JSON Data Type in Microsoft SQL Server #dotnet #efcore