Thirteen years ago I built an open source library for building distributed apps in .NET. Since then it's been quietly running in production systems everywhere. But it looked neglected. Now it's back! damianm.com/posts/2026/n...

I deployed a v1.0 of DbToMermaid github.com/SimonCropp/D... Generate Mermaid ER diagrams from SQL Server databases or Entity Framework models

i just released v1.0 of EfOrderBy been using it in production for over a month github.com/SimonCropp/E...

just released v1.0 of github.com/SimonCropp/P... i have been using it for a few months in markdown snippets to avoid assembly conflicts in the mdbuild context

I just release v1.0 of github.com/SimonCropp/P... I have been using it in a significant number of projects over the last few months and it is stable A C# source generator that provides strongly-typed, compile-time access to project files marked with CopyToOutputDirectory in the .csproj file.

Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums

Thanks to TestMu AI www.testmuai.com for sponsoring VerifyTests

TUnitMigrator: A .NET tool that migrates test projects from MSTest, NUnit, xUnit, and xUnit v3 to TUnit. github.com/SimonCropp/T... #tunit #dotnet

pretty happy i got package shading working so i can use the newest library versions and not have assembly conflicts in msbuild

Sample projects demonstrating how to configure Microsoft.Testing.Platform (MTP) with common .NET test frameworks. github.com/SimonCropp/M...

I was just told by @devlead.se that .NET 11 uses Spectre.Console! 🎉 github.com/dotnet/core/...

Polyfill now supports dotnet 11. and i added some net11 APIs github.com/SimonCropp/P... API count is now at 734

given the xunit package has been deprecated . I will be doing the same for Verify.Xunit if this is a problem for anyone please reach out www.nuget.org/packages/xunit xunit.net/docs/getting...

Does anyone know why the TimeProvider API doesnt have DateOnly and TimeOnly support? #dotnet

Open Source Maintenance Fee v1.1 robmensching.com/blog/posts/2...

doing my part to train the AIs committers.top/australia.html

This is wild notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacke...

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

What he said

Submitted 2 security issues to NuGet and GitHub last year, finally heard back that they are low priority and not a big deal. I did manage to publish this package to NuGet. A bunch of unicode in there, but it looks genuine, right? Nobody would discover this via search because of the unicode.

Would've expected this count to be > 1 github.com/orgs/microso...

i built a little Australian holiday tracker in blazor webassembly. pmcau.github.io/AustralianHo... pretty happy i got export to excel working in the browser with no dependencies

Perf impact of using LocalDB to produce a new isolated DB for every test method: github.com/SimonCropp/L...

My automatic Entity Framework ordering project now does automatic index creation for the defined order github.com/SimonCropp/E...

I added support for custom index names to EntityFramework.OrderBy github.com/SimonCropp/E...

EntityFramework.OrderBy: Applies default ordering to EntityFramework queries based on fluent configuration. This ensures consistent query results and prevents non-deterministic ordering issues. github.com/SimonCropp/E...

lets see how this goes: Remove the Nuget Gallery "share on twitter" feature github.com/NuGet/NuGetG...

Morph: A .NET library that converts Microsoft Word DOCX documents into PNG images. github.com/SimonCropp/M...

i released a new version of naiad with better state diagram rendering github.com/SimonCropp/N...

I've written a new blog post on AI. I reluctantly learnt some of the concepts and tooling in this space and highlight these for newcomers. I felt I had to investigate rather than hate. I also discuss the flaws of AI, the impact of AI and the future of AI blog.jonathanchannon.com/2025-12-23-i...

still early days. but here is my attempt to implement a mermaid diagram renderer in .net github.com/SimonCropp/N...

A long‑anticipated development update on Catel 7 is finally here. geertvanhorrik.com/2025/12/28/c...

I added a dotnet tool for my Sql Server to Mermaid diagram project github.com/SimonCropp/D...

Generate Mermaid ER diagrams from SQL Server databases or Entity Framework Core models: github.com/SimonCropp/D...

getting closer

Scratching my own itch over winter break: building an alternative UI for GitHub Notifications to improve issue + discussion triage. First must-have: comments sorted in reverse chronological order so the newest context is always immediately visible without weird scroll issues.

“Trump-class battleships?” 🤣🤣 Trump’s narcissism reaches new heights of comedy.

Holiday project. trying to build a .net lib to render docx to png. current status: left is from word, right is from my lib.

i build a word diff launcher to help me snapshot test docx files github.com/SimonCropp/M...

i updated my dell software. and in their continued enshitification, they have added a tray icon, with no hover, no right, left, or double click actions. i had to work out what it was by the icon

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Kind of scary when you think about it: nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/g...

are my assumption on .net new AssemblyLoadContext behavior correct? github.com/nunit/nunit3...

IMO if it takes more than 2 weeks to approve a very basic single line docs change, then your process has problems github.com/MicrosoftDoc...

Do I know anyone who works at Stripe? Please do some performance metrics on your UI, it's slower than a snail taking the scenic route.

do i know any devs who work at Dell? if so can we have a chat about how many processes should be required just to control a monitors KVM

If you're using github.com/VerifyTests/..., e.g. to protect your library's public API, also check out plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/17240... created by Mathias Koch.

I released a stable of my little ProjectFiles source generator github.com/SimonCropp/P...

why is this not a CVE? >Sanitize logs to avoid leaking sensitive data >Updated logging to sanitize sensitive values, reducing the risk of inadvertently exposing secrets or PII in logs. ot it is and i just cant find it? github.com/AzureAD/azur...

well this is just plain wrong learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet... the Dispose(true)+Finalize should only be used if u have un-managed resources. i deem this a cargo cult analyzer